WILLEY

This small parish is on the eastern boundary of Warwickshire just three miles west of Lutterworth in Leicestershire. The village is noted in the Domesday survey but the place name goes back much further for its meaning is said to be 'a heathen place of worship in a wooded grove'.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Lutterworth

ADJOINING PARISHES: Monks Kirby and the Leicestershire parishes of Great Claybrooke,Bitteswell and Lutterworth.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1661-1984 Marriages: 1662-1982 Burials: 1661-1990 Banns 1765-1797

Bishop's Transcripts : 1664-1868 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1744-1885, Marriages: 1744-1895. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: C Marriages: 1661-1844 Burials: 1661-1766, 1813-1844 SoG

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St. Leonard BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: 1841 51 81 91 WAR
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1765-1840


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]