Brigstock, Northamptonshire Genealogy

England Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Parishes

Guide to Brigstock, Northamptonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BRIGSTOCK (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Thrapston, hundred of Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 22 miles (N. E.) from Northampton.

Civil Registration
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.

Genealogy
Slawson, Daphne. The Wreck of The Zenobia. History and family tree of Joseph and Sarah Ayers Slawson and letters from Kingston on Thames, Surrey. Photo of Slawson Family at Brisbane, Australia 1900, also reports of the fatal boat accident. Article dates 1677-1897, and is found in The Hampshire Family Historian vol. 16, part 1, May 1989, pages 10-14, FHL Ref 942.27 B2h

Probate records
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
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