Pam Downes
06-11-2020, 8:26 AM
This post will be added to as time permits and other links are found.
See also Wikipedia entries for various towns and villages.
Genuki for Rutland
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RUT
has links to most things for Rutland including
parishes
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RUT/parishes
and Societies
https://www.lrfhs.org.uk/
https://www.rutlandhistory.org/
FamilySearch wiki
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Rutland,_England_Genealogy
Remember also ordinary Wikipedia.
Note: Rutland's archives are held at Leicester Record Office.
You have to scroll down but there's a link to a list of the parish and non-conformist church registers held at the Record Office. Sorry, Rutland is just lumped together with Leicestershire.
https://www.recordoffice.org.uk/resources/family-history-and-findmypast/
FMP has indexes for baptisms, banns and marriages, and burials, as well as the actual PR images.
It also has Northamptonshire and Rutland Probate Index, covering 1452-1857, based on records in Northampton Record Office.
Plus Leicestershire and Rutland, Soldiers Died 1914-1920 and Rutland Registers and Records.
Newspapers
The Lincolnshire Rutland and Stamford Mercury has been printed for over three hundred years, though these days its title has been shortened to Rutland and Stamford Mercury. Available through BNA and FMP using the shortened title of Stamford Mercury. (Updated after reading post #2 in this thread.)
The British Newspaper Archive (and FMP) have some years of the Rutland Echo and Leicestershire Advertiser available online. At routhe time of posting, seems to be from April 1877 to 1887.
Clipsham
https://web.archive.org/web/20070804163437/https://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/clipsham.htm
Essendine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155446/https://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/essendine.htm
See also Wikipedia entries for various towns and villages.
Genuki for Rutland
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RUT
has links to most things for Rutland including
parishes
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RUT/parishes
and Societies
https://www.lrfhs.org.uk/
https://www.rutlandhistory.org/
FamilySearch wiki
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Rutland,_England_Genealogy
Remember also ordinary Wikipedia.
Note: Rutland's archives are held at Leicester Record Office.
You have to scroll down but there's a link to a list of the parish and non-conformist church registers held at the Record Office. Sorry, Rutland is just lumped together with Leicestershire.
https://www.recordoffice.org.uk/resources/family-history-and-findmypast/
FMP has indexes for baptisms, banns and marriages, and burials, as well as the actual PR images.
It also has Northamptonshire and Rutland Probate Index, covering 1452-1857, based on records in Northampton Record Office.
Plus Leicestershire and Rutland, Soldiers Died 1914-1920 and Rutland Registers and Records.
Newspapers
The Lincolnshire Rutland and Stamford Mercury has been printed for over three hundred years, though these days its title has been shortened to Rutland and Stamford Mercury. Available through BNA and FMP using the shortened title of Stamford Mercury. (Updated after reading post #2 in this thread.)
The British Newspaper Archive (and FMP) have some years of the Rutland Echo and Leicestershire Advertiser available online. At routhe time of posting, seems to be from April 1877 to 1887.
Clipsham
https://web.archive.org/web/20070804163437/https://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/clipsham.htm
Essendine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155446/https://homepages.which.net/~rex/bourne/essendine.htm