History
The Registers in St Edith's, Orton-on-the-Hill, date from 1594.
There is an account in one of them of a former Vicar William Paul, who was born at Little Ashby in 1678. The register records that he was 'hanged at Tyburn as a Jacobite. Anne Orme heard him preach and pray for King James and said that he had a light coloured coat on. In 1709 the Bishop of Oxford presented him to Orton and, in 1715, he joined the Jacobites and, the Sunday before he left Orton, he is said to have preached from Ezekiel XXI, verses 26 and 27. He was apprehended in London and after trial was, on 13th July, drawn on a sledge from Newgate to Tyburn and there hanged, drawn and quartered'.
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Current records of baptisms, marriages and burials are available from the parish. Please contact the Pastoral Assistant, Marion Thomas (01827 713074), to make arrangements to view them. Historic records (useful for researching family trees etc.) are available from the Leicestershire Records Office:
The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland,
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