Ancestry Library Edition

This is a new service now available FREE of charge from Loughborough library. Ancestry Library Edition is a web-based resource which is only accessible in the library and you can use this resource to do your family research by searching UK census records, BMD records and much more. Use the Ancestry Library Edition link above to find out more.

Census Returns

The first census was taken in 1801 and a census has been conducted at 10 year interval thereafter. However, it is only from 1841 that they give a complete list of inhabitants of every town and village. The earlier census records only show numbers of people and houses but not names. The returns are not available for public use until 100 full years have passed after the census was taken.

Electoral register

The electoral voters lists is an annual list of people who either are of voting age or about to become so. The first Loughborough register held in cabinet A in the family Room area downstairs is for 1936, Shepshed registers start from 1974 and Charnwood from 1979. The collections ends with the 2001 register.

Legislative changes in 2002 mean that current registers are no longer made available to the library. To consult current register please contact:
The Electoral Registration Office
Southfields
Southfields Road
Loughborough.
Tel: 01509 634612.

Council Minutes, Annual Reports, Accounts & Budgets

Council minutes can be useful source of information on the development of a town or county over the period of time covered by the minutes. Topics covered in minutes are not indexed so you have to extract the information you require by browsing Annual Reports, Accounts and Budgets statements outline the function and workings of the council over the previous year.

Borough of Loughborough minutes dates back to 1893.
In 1974 the name of the Council changed to Charnwood Borough Council.
Accounts and Budgets available from 1930 and Annual Reports from 1980.

County Council Minutes from 1947. Budgets and Accounts for the county run from 1963/64 but they are incomplete. County Council Annual Reports start from 1980.

Weblinks to electoral type of information