Hathern

The Hathern Community Library which opened in 2016 in Greenhill is a branch of the Leicester County Council Library System. It is open 5 days each week (verify by phone if you are visiting) and has a section on Family History to assist you.

• The cemetery was formed in 1896 and covered nearly an acre. It was under the control of the Parish Council.
   
• The local Women's Institute has created a document of all the monument inscription in Hathern's two cemeteries. Over 500 gravestones are listed. These laminated pages can be found in the parish church.
   

• The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• 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.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2276
1871	R.G. 10 / 3258
1891	R.G. 12 / 2517

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church was built in the latter part of the 14th century.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1864.
   
• The church seats 364.
   
• Tim GLOVER has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2009.
   
• Near the church, in the centre of the street, stands an ancient preaching cross on a graduated base of five steps.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Preaching Cross on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   

• The church is in the rural deanery of East Akeley.
   
• The Catholic Church is dedicated to Saint Aloysius.
   
• The Baptist chapel was rebuilt in 1880.
   
• Geoff PICK has a photograph of The Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists also had chapels here before 1912.
   

• The parish was in the Loughborough sub-district of the Loughborough Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Hathern is a village and was a parish. It is near the River Soar, and on the border with Nottinghamshire. The parish lies just northwest of Leicester city, 3 miles northwest of Loughborough and 112 miles north of London. The parish covered 1,341 acres, most of which was pasture for sheep and cattle.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, Hathern is on the road between Loughborough and Derby.
   
• Eirian EVANS has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008. This sign is just off the Loughborough Road
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Hathern to another place.

In the early 1800s the family of William and Ann CALDWELL moved to Radford before returning to Hathern in c1810. The following children, all of William & Anne CALDWELL, appear in the Hathern registers:

• Bapts
• 1800 Dec 30th John
• 1802 Feb 7th Thomas Bates
• 1803 Feb 27th Thomas Stephen Bates
• 1805 Oct 13th Samuel
• 1810 Apr 23rd Joseph Bates
• 1810 Apr 23rd Henry
• 1815 Dec 24th Ann (father a FWK)
• 1818 Apr 5th Elizabeth (father Stocking Lacemaker)
• 1821 Mar 25th Betsy (father a FWK)
   
• Burials
• 1811 Dec 7th Thomas CALDWELL aged 8yr

• This place was once mostly pasture and small farms.
   
• In the 1800s and early 1900s, most inhabitants of the parish were frame-work knitters.
   
• Hathern was for some time the residence of Mr. John HEATHCOAT, the inventor of the bobbinnet machine, born 7 Aug. 1783, in Leicestershire.
   
• Tim GLOVER has a photograph of The Anchor Inn on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2009. It is on the south end of the village.
   
• Chris J. DIXON has a photograph of the Dew Drop Inn on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2005.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the medieval Preaching Cross (across from the school) on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016. The cross is listed as Grade II* with English Heritage.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK502225 (Lat/Lon: 52.797572, -1.256905), Hathern which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is one Commonwealth War Grave in the churchyard from World War II.

There are two brass plaques on a wooden board inside the parish church. There are names from both World Wars and the conflict in Egypt.

In July, 1920, a War Memorial was dedicated in the cemetery in Hathern. It is a dark green Aberdeen granite cross surmounting ornate crown support on a tall shaft. There is an inscription on 3 faces of the shaft and on the small tablet in the front.

The person buried in the churchyard is (from the www.Cwgc.ord site):

1. Leslie BLYTH, sapper, 263 "A" Field Coy, Royal Engineers, died 12 June 1943. He unfortunately died in barracks when another man's rifle went off and the bullet struck him.
    

• This place was an ancient parish. It became a Civil Parish, but was abolished in 1935.
   
• The parish was in the ancient West Goscote Hundred in the mid (or northern) division of the county.
   
• On 1 April, 1935, the parish was abolished and split into three pieces: 1,322 acres went to Loughborough Civil parish, 11 acres went to Long Whatton parish and the final 8 acres went to Shepshed parish.
   
• The parish must have re-formed, because it now has a Parish Council. You may contact them regarding civic or political issues, but they CANNOT assist you with family history searches.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Loughborough petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Loughborough Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	956
1821	1,144
1841	1,252
1851	1,187
1871	1,120
1881	1,312
1891	1,133
1901	1,114
1911	1,209
1921	1,124
1931	1,225

• A Public Elementary School (National School) was built here in 1850 to hold 193 children.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Hathern Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.