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Appleby

"APPLEBY parish, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union and County Court District, comprises the neighbouring villages of Appleby Magna and Parva, 8 miles N. of Atherstone, 6 miles S.W. by S. of Ashby de-la-Zouch, and about 20 W. by N. of Leicester. The parish contains 885 inhabitants, living on 2020 acres of land, of which 393 persons, living on 1130 acres of land, are in Sparkenhoe Hundred, in this county, and the remainder are in a detached portion of Repton and Gresley Hundred, Derbyshire. Appleby Parva is wholly in Leicestershire, and lies south of Appleby Magna, which is mostly in Derbyshire, but the parish church is in Leicestershire. The counties of Leicester and Derby unite with those of Stafford and Warwick at the western extremity of this parish, which is skirted on the east by the river Mease and the Ashby Canal." White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the Counties of Leicester and Rutland. 3rd Edition 1877]

Cemetries

The Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society have published details of Appleby burials (865F) from 1813 - 1865.

Census

The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print and Volume 7 covers the Measham Sub-District which includes the Leicestershire part of Appleby.

Church Records

The Society of Genealogists holds copies of baptisms (1572 - 1862), marriages (1573 - 1837) and burials (1572 - 1906) from Appleby Magna which can be studied at their library in London.

Maps

Multi Media Mapping have a current map showing the location of Appleby.

Poorhouses, Poor Law.

Appleby was part of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Union. The workhouse, on the Derby Road in Ashby de la Zouch, was purchased by the Union in 1836 and subsequently enlarged. It could accomodate 300 paupers.

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