Blaby Registration District

BLABY REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Leicestershire.
Created : 1.7.1837.
Abolished : 1.10.1949 (to become part of Leicestershire Central registration district).
Sub-districts : Enderby, Wigston, Wigston Magna.
GRO volumes : XV (1837–51), 7a (1852–1946), 3A (1946–49).
Registers currently held at : Leicester.

Table 1: List of Places in Blaby Registration District

Civil Parish	County	From	To	Comments
Aylestone	Leicestershire	1837	1892	On 31.10.1891 most of the parish of Aylestone became part of Leicester County Borough, and this area was transferred to Leicester registration district on 1.1.1892. The rural part of Aylestone remaining in Blaby registration district became part of the parish of Lubbesthorpe on 26.3.1892. See also Table 2, note (d).
Blaby	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Braunstone	Leicestershire	1837	1949	On 31.10.1891 a small part of the parish of Braunstone became part of Leicester county borough, and this area was transferred to Leicester registration district on 1.1.1892, and subsequently became part of the parish of St. Mary on 26.3.1892. See also Table 2, notes (e) and (i).
Braunstone Frith	Leicestershire	1837	1935	Abolished 1.4.1935 to become part of the parish of Leicester.
Cosby	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Countesthorpe	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Croft	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, notes (b) and (i).
East Wigston	Leicestershire	1894	1935	Created 31.12.1894 from the rural part of the parish of Wigston Magna. Abolished 1.4.1935 and incoporated into the parish of Wigston Magna.
Enderby	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Foston	Leicestershire	1837	1935	Abolished 1.4.1935 and incoporated into the parish of Kilby.
Freakes Ground	Leicestershire	1862	1891	See Table 2, notes (a) and (c).
Glen Parva	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Glenfield	Leicestershire	1837	1935	Abolished 1.4.1935 and incoporated into the parish of Glenfields.
Glenfield Frith	Leicestershire	1837	1935	Abolished 1.4.1935 and incoporated into the parish of Glenfields.
Glenfields	Leicestershire	1935	1949	Created 1.4.1935 out of the parishes of Glenfield, Glenfield Frith, Kirby Frith, Anstey Pastures, Anstey, New Parks, and Leicester Frith. See also Table 2, note (i).
Huncote	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Kilby	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Kirby Frith	Leicestershire	1837	1935	Abolished 1.4.1935 and incoporated into the parish of Glenfields.
Kirby Muxloe	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, notes (g) and (i).
Knighton	Leicestershire	1837	1892	See Table 2, note (f).
Knoll & Bassett House	Leicestershire	1837	1909	Abolished 1.10.1909 to become part of the parish of Thurlaston
Leicester Forest East	Leicestershire	1837	1935	Abolished 1.4.1935 and incoporated into the parish of Kirby Muxloe.
Leicester Forest West	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Lubbesthorpe	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Narborough	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
New Found Pool	Leicestershire	1862	1891	See Table 2, notes (a) and (c).
New Parks	Leicestershire	1862	1935	Abolished 1.4.1935 to become parts of the parishes of Leicester and Glenfields. See also Table 2, note (a).
Oadby	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, notes (h) and (i).
Potters Marston	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Thurlaston	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Whetstone	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).
Wigston Magna	Leicestershire	1837	1949	See Table 2, note (i).

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Blaby Registration District

Date of Change	Note	Description of Change	Population transferred
30.1.1862	(a)	Gained the parishes of Freakes Ground, New Found Pool, and New Parks, from Leicester registration district.	134 in 1861
25.3.1885	(b)	Lost a detached part of the parish of Croft, including Platt House, etc. (which became part of the parish of Broughton Astley on 25.3.1885) to Lutterworth registration district.	12 in 1891
1.1.1892	(c)	Lost the parishes of Freakes Ground and New Found Pool to Leicester registration district.	4380 in 1901
	(d)	Lost the part of the parish of Aylestone in Leicester County Borough to Leicester registration district.	7357 in 1901
	(e)	Lost the part of the parish of Braunstone in Leicester County Borough (which became part of the parish of St. Mary on 26.3.1892), to Leicester registration district.	16 in 1901
	(f)	Lost the part of the parish of Knighton in Leicester County Borough to Leicester registration district.	11430 in 1901
1.11.1904	(g)	Lost part of the parish of Kirby Muxloe (which became part of the parish of Ratby on 1.10.1904) to Market Bosworth registration district.	78 in 1901
1.4.1939	(h)	Gained part of the parish of Oadby (which until 1.4.1936 formed part of the parish of Leicester) from Leicester registration district.	16 in 1931
1.10.1949 (abolished)	(i)	Lost the constituent parishes of Blaby, Braunstone, Cosby, Countesthorpe, Croft, Enderby, Glen Parva, Glenfields, Huncote, Kilby, Kirby Muxloe, Leicester Forest West, Lubbesthorpe, Narborough, Oadby, Potters Marston, Thurlaston, Whetstone, and Wigston, to Leicestershire Central registration district.	48272 in 1931

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