Northampton St Peter, Northamptonshire Genealogy
Guide to Northampton St Peter, Northamptonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Northampton St Peter, Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Northampton |
| County | Northamptonshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Northampton |
| Registration District | Northampton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1578 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1708 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Northampton |
| Diocese | Peterborough |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton |
| Location of Archive | |
| Northamptonshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
NORTHAMPTON, a borough and market-town, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Spelhoe, S. division of the county of Northampton, of which it is the chief town, 66 miles (N. W. by N.) from London, on the road to Leicester. The borough comprises the parishes of All Saints, containing 7898; St. Giles, 3898; St. Peter, 1029; and St. Sepulchre, 6124 inhabitants: in the extra-parochial part of the town are 2293 inhabitants. There were formerly seven parochial churches within the walls and two without, of which only four are remaining. The parish of St. Giles comprises about 800 acres, of which 100 consist of meadow watered by the river Nene on the south.[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]
Northampton St Peter parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| NORTHAMPTON ST PETER PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC BTs | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 | ||
| AC PRs | 1813-1912 | 1813-1912 | 1813-1912 | 1813-1912 | ||
| BOYD | 1655-1726, 1776-1812 | |||||
| FREG | 1578-1812, 1861-1870 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
| TGEN | 1578-1812 | 1578-1812 | 1578-1812 | |||
Marriages from 1647 to 1700 are indexed in Northamptonshire Marriage Index Pre-1700 (2nd ed.). FHL British CD-ROM no. 5489; publisher's bookstore.
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: 27 November 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 'Northamptonshire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912', Ancestry, accessed 5 March 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 'Northamptonshire, England, Burials, 1813-1912', Ancestry, accessed 5 March 2015.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Northamptonshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 29 November 2014.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - Coverage', The Genealogist, accessed 27 September 2013.
