Leicestershire Parish Registers

Registers still available.

During the world wide pandemic www.leicestershire.webs.com is offering buy one parish get one free. Just buy one parish and email the name of the second parish you’d like me to send at [email protected].
Stay safe and healthy friends.

Home Christenings, Marriages, and Burials from the Leicestershire Parish Registers

We have decided every Thursday we will be doing a throwback looking through some old images of our beautiful city to see the changes from then to now.

This image is on the High Street looking towards the Market Place in 1908.

Kindly on loan from Ely Perspective and Michael Rouse

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Buy one Leicestershire parish register and get the second one free. Happy research for the entire month of June. Go to www.parishchest.com or www.leicestershire.webs.com and purchase one Leicestershire parish and then send me an email with your second choice attached.
Hope to see you all at Rootstech London.

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Buy 2 parishes and get 1 free for the month of February. Buy 2 and let me know the 3rd and I’ll send it to you.

Read the George Stephenson notebook online - Network Rail This Christmas, Network Rail is sharing one of the railway’s most historically important artefacts with the world. The rediscovery this year of a notebook written by ‘father of the railways’ George Stephenson enabled the public to see remarkable plans of the birth of the passenger railway for ...

This 'Belvoir Angel' gravestone in Brooksby churchyard, of 1727, shows how carvers used to carve their inscription straight on to the stone without trying to set it out first. As a result, there are many examples in churchyards round the county where the carver has run out of space before reaching the end of the line they were writing. Here it was a major miscalculation on the first line of the verse. The lines are also very close together, so plenty of room was allowed around the word 'let' on the next line, to avoid the tails of the letters in the line above. Once again, this created problems at the end of the line. The carver also had to go back and add the letter 'd' to the next line, but I think spelling mistakes can be more easily forgiven in the 1720s, when there were few opportunities to gain an education.

MYSTERY MONDAY! Can you help us identify some mystery images from our collections?

Today's photograph is of a large building, possibly an office. Domestic premises can just be seen behind it. The building is on a street corner, but infuriatingly the street sign is illegible. The sign on front says the building has been 'Acquired For Clients', so it may be in the process of being altered or demolished. Does anyone recognise this building? Please let us know below if you do!

Happy 1st June everyone!

Image credits: Teach Me Genealogy