near The Vale of Belvoir in rural Leicestershire

The Eaton History Archive
Births, Marriages, Deaths
​Parish records were first formally used in the reign of Henry VIII when Thomas Cromwell, the Chief Minister, order that every birth, marriage and burial should be recorded.
The Reverend Charles Rivington, vicar at Eaton, records in his notes on the History of Eaton that ‘the register begins in 1591 and is very imperfect. In the twenty years that appear tolerably perfect near the beginning, are 126 baptisms, 46 burials and 24 marriages.’ Sadly this register has not survived.
The surviving records held at the Leicester Records Office and begin during John Holdens time as vicar from 1724
Eaton C 1724 - 1788;
1813 - 1989
M 1724 - 1763;
1813 - 1996 (1976)
B 1724 - 1788;
1813 - 1983
Subject to funding we are intending to have a subscription to a genealogy website and once this is in place will obtain a copy of the records to be posted here.
Burials, for which there is a marker either as a gravestone or a plaque, can be searched on the Find a Grave website. This shows the oldest as Thomas Blankley buried in 1712 aged 70 and is one of the four Belvoir Angel gravestones in the churchyard.
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