Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire Genealogy
Guide to Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Guilsborough |
| County | Northamptonshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Rugby |
| Registration District | Rugby |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1607 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1708 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Haddon |
| 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]
STANFORD (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Rugby, hundred of Guilsborough, S. division of the county of Northampton, 3½ miles (S. W.) from Welford, and 5 (S. E.) from Lutterworth. The river Avon bounds Stanford on the north-west, and the Grand Union canal passes through it.[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]
Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| AC BTs = Northamptonshire, England, Baptisms (Ancestry) - £[2][3] | |||||
| PC = Parish Chest - (£). Registers delivered by email.[4] |
| Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC BTs | 1813-1858 | 1813-1858 | 1813-1858 | 1813-1858 | ||
| PC | 1607-1812 | 1607-1812 | 1607-1812 | |||
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.
- ↑ 'Northamptonshire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1912', Ancestry, accessed 5 March 2015.
- ↑ 'Northamptonshire, England, Burials, 1813-1912', Ancestry, accessed 5 March 2015.
- ↑ 'Leicestershire Parish Registers', Parish Chest, accessed 27 January 2014.
