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"BARKBY, a pleasant village, near the confluence of two rivulets, 5 miles N.E. of Leicester, and 1 1/2 miles E.S.E. of Syston Station, has in its township 528 souls, and about 2000 acres of land, including Hamilton, or Hameldon, an estate of 374 acres, and 7 souls. Its parish includes also the adjoining township of Barkby Thorpe which has 70 inhabitants, and 559A. 1R. 1P. of land; and the township of Thurmaston North End, which forms a village and chapelry with Thurmaston South End , in Belgrave parish..... The soil is various, consisting of clay, marl and gravel, and many of the inhabitants are framework knitters."
[White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire and the small County of Rutland. 1st Edition 1846]
Suella Postles did an MA titled Barkby: Anatomy of a Township 1535-1800 for the Department of English Local History at the University of Leicester in 1976. Copies will be in the University of Leicester Library and I have deposited one with the Local Studies Library in Syston. The Barkby Local History Group also has a copy. She is happy to do lookups for Barkby surnames of this period. Contact her at: Suella Postles.
There is also a chapter on early Barkby in the volume in memory of Richard McKinley titled Names, Time and Place written by Suella Postles and Dr. David Postles, published by the Leopards Head Press in 2003.
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 23 covers the Syston Sub-District of which Barkby is a part.
The Society of Genealogists holds copies of Barkby parish records including records of baptisms from 1586-1642 1660-61 1674-1920, marriages from 1586-1641 (on microfiche from 1586-1677) 1678-88 1691-1963 and burials from 1586-1641 1652 1662 1691-1886 which can be studied at their library in London.
