Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire Genealogy
Guide to Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Higham Ferrers |
| County | Northamptonshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Wellingborough |
| Registration District | Wellingborough |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1579 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1706 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Higham Ferrers |
| Diocese | Peterborough |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton |
| Location of Archive | |
| Northamptonshire Record Office | |
Parish History[edit | edit source]
HIGHAM-FERRERS (Virgin Mary), a town and parish, in the hundred of Higham-Ferrers, union of Wellingborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, 15½ miles (E. N. E.) from Northampton, and 65 (N. N. W.) from London. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| AC BTs = Northamptonshire, England, Baptisms (Ancestry) - (£)[2][3] | |||||
| AC PRs = Northamptonshire, England, Baptisms (Ancestry) - (£)[2][3] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[4] |
| Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC BTs | 1813-1861 | 1813-1861 | ||||
| AC PRs | 1813-1912 | 1813-1912 | ||||
| FREG | 1579-1640, 1653-1869 | 1579-1640, 1653-1837 | 1579-1640, 1653-1886 | |||
Non-Conformist Records[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Northamptonshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 03 December 2013.
- ↑ 2.02.1 'Northamptonshire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912', Ancestry, accessed 5 March 2015.
- ↑ 3.03.1 'Northamptonshire, England, Burials, 1813-1912', Ancestry, accessed 5 March 2015.
- ↑ 'Northamptonshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 29 November 2014.
