Brixworth, Northamptonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRIXWORTH (All Saints), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Orlingbury, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N.) from Northampton. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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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.

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Online Records These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Northamptonshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Northamptonshire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1840-1894 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Genealogy From Periodicals
Howcutt, Francis. The Howcutt Family At Brixworth. Family history of Thomas Howcutt 1776-1844 and Elizabeth Martin and descendants, with some of the family at Spratton, and Sussex Lavington, and London. Article dated from 1776-1851, with the following surnames, Adnitt, Sykes, Moody, Allen, Jeacock, and Clay. Article in Footprints, Northamptonshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol.5.no.2. page 42-44. Family History Library Ref. 942.55 D25fo vol.5.

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.

An index to the names of those mentioned in or witnessing wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury where the testators were from Brixworth appears in the relevant section of the Brixworth History Society website.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Websites
Brixworth History Society