Queniborough Leicestershire Family History Guide
Queniborough is an Ancient Parish in the county of Leicestershire.
Alternative names: Queeniborough
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1562
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1562
Nonconformists include: General Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
QUEENIBOROUGH, a parish, with a village, in Barrow-upon Soar district, Leicestershire; on an affluent of the river Wreak, 2¼ miles E by N of Syston r. station, and 6¼ NNE of Leicester. Post-town, Syston, under Leicester.
Acres, 1, 390. Real property, £4, 278. Pop., 511. Houses, 129. The manor, with Upper Hall, belongs to Mrs. Williamson. Lower Hall is the seat of F. Ordish, Esq.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £106. Patron, T . Frewen, Esq. The church is decorated English, with tower and spire; and was restored in 1858.
There are chapels for Baptists and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £24.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
QUEENIBOROUGH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 1½ mile (S.) from Rearsby; containing 530 inhabitants.
At the period of the civil war, in 1642, Prince Rupert had his army in this place; and an original letter still exists, dated from Queeniborough, to the mayor of Leicester, in which the prince requests the loan of £1000 for the service of the king.
The parish comprises by measurement 2082 acres, and is partly bounded on the northwest by the river Wreke; the road from Leicester to Melton-Mowbray intersects the lordship about a mile below the village, and the Midland railway approaches within two miles.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £8; net income, £85; patron and impropriator, W. Blake, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents in the year 1794; there are about 9 acres of glebe. The church, which is remarkable for its tapering crocketed spire, stands in a valley.
There are places of worship for Baptists and Ranters. Some years since, a few Roman antiquities were dug up a quarter of a mile below the village.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Directories
Kelly’s Directory of the Watch, Clock and Jewellery Trades 1880
QUENIBOROUGH
Watch Maker
Marston Thomas
Source: The Post office [afterw.] Kelly’s directory of the watch and clock trades, goldsmiths and jewellers [&c. afterw.] Kelly’s directory of the watch, clock and jewellery tradesBy Kelly’s directories, ltd · 1880
Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Barrow upon Soar
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Leicester
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Goscote
- Poor Law Union: Barrow upon Soar
- Hundred: East Goscote
- Province: Canterbury