Sysonby

• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transferred to the new Melton and Belvoir 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:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary (that dedication is uncertain).
   
• The church is a small building with a single bell, reportedly originally built in 1344.
   
• The church was reported to be in bad condition in 1881 and was restored in 1892.
   
• The churchyard was enlarged by 1/2 acre in 1898.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
   
• Andrew TATLOW also has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register was kept in Melton Mowbray.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Framland (third portion).
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Waltham sub-district of the Melton Mowbray Registration District.
   
• In 1935, the parish was transferred to the new Melton and Belvoir Registration District.
   

Sysonby is a parish and a hamlet on the north side of the Wreak and Eye navigation canal. The parish is about 106 miles north of London and 1 mile west of Melton Mobray. The parish covered 1,240 acres. There is not much left of the old village. The parish was once a large farm, but many of the old buildings have been demolished or converted to residences.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A5006 arterial road west about 1 mile out of Melton Mowbray.
   
• There is no longer any passenger rail service to Sysonby.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish was mostly pasture, and most of the residents were graziers.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK738190 (Lat/Lon: 52.76357, -0.907738), Sysonby 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.

• In 1912, the Army had seized the Melbourne Lodge stud farm for thoroughbred horses and was using it as an Army Remount Depot. Major E. G. TOMBLINGS was in charge. Major TOMBLINGS retired in 1916. It was still in use for this purpose in 1925, when Major Samuel G. SANDERS was in charge.
   
• Private Sydney Wilfrid HANDLEY, 19th Hussars, was buried here in 1917. The Melton Remount Depot supplied the bearers, and a contingent of the Royal Flying Corps., followed. A firing party was furnished from Glen Parva Barracks.
   
• In Sysonby Churchyard are 4 Commonwealth war graves from World War I and 5 from World War II. One of those graves is for Major Ronald Anthony MARKHAM of the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, who died on 25 October 1914.
   

• This place was a township and a chapelry of Leicestershire in Melton Mowbray for centuries. It becames a modern Civil Parish in December 1866 and was abolished as such in 1930.
   
• The parish was in the Framland Hundred (Wapentake) in the northern (or eastern) division of the county.
   
• This parish boundaries were adjusted slightly around 1886 to take the parish from 980 acres to 1,240 acres.
   
• On 8 November, 1894, the hamlet of Eye Kettleby was transferred to Sysonby Civil Parish.
   
• On 1 October, 1930, the parish of Sysonby was abolished and the land of 1,240 acres amalgamated with that of Melton Mowbray Civil Parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Melton Mowbray petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this placem when it was established as a Civil Parish in 1866, became part of the Melton Mowbray Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	68
1861	67
1871	73
1881	96
1891	147
1901	157
1911	214
1921	191

• The children of this parish attended school in Melton Mowbray.