Leighfield Rutland Family History Guide

Leighfield is an extra-parochial place.

Alternative names: Leigh-Field Forest, Leighfield Forest

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: see surrounding parishes
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: see surrounding parishes

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LEIGHFIELD-FOREST, an extra-parochial tract in Uppingham district, Rutland; 2½ miles W of Manton r.. station, and 3½ SW of Oakham. Acres, 1,500. Real property, £3,232. Pop., 40. The manor belongs to George Finch, Esq.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Marriage Licences

Lincoln Marriage Licences

Lincoln Marriage Licences. An Abstract of the Allegation Books preserved in The Registry of the Bishop of Lincoln 1598 to 1628. Edited by A Gibbons. London: Mitchell & Hughes, 140 Wardour Street, W. 1888.

The name in brackets at the end of each entry is the church where the marriage was to be solemnized; where a saint’s name only is given, the church was at Lincoln. “Ditto ” in brackets signifies the same church as in the preceding entry; and where both parties reside in the same parish, and the marriage was to be solemnized at their parish church, the name is not repeated in brackets. In order to economize space, “aged” is abbreviated “æt.,” “yeoman” “yeom.,” “husbandman” “husb.,” “widow” “wid., “application” “appln.;” besides a few other obvious abbreviations. Places situate in other counties than Lincoln are generally so specified.

1613 May 17 Giles Broome, of Lyfeild, co. Rutland, yeom., æt. 30, & Dorothie Marsingale, of St Swithin’s, Lincoln, wid. , æt. 33. [St Swithin.]

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Rutland, Leighfield – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Leighfield, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Rutlandshire
  • Civil Registration District: Uppingham
  • Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Oakham
  • Hundred: Oakham Soke
  • Province: Canterbury