Orlingbury, Northamptonshire Genealogy

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

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Parish History
ORLINGBURY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Orlingbury, N. division of the county of Northampton, 3¾ miles (N. W. by N.) from Wellingborough.

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
Orlingbury parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Northamptonshire Record Office.

Genealogy From Periodicals
Stentiford, Marjorie F. An Early South Australia Pioneer. History and photos of Warwick Langley born 1811, and his wife Caroline nee Dean, of Pytchley South Australia. Warwick being the 4th child of John Langley and Elizabeth nee Warwick of Orlingbury. He applied to emigrate to South Australia in 1836, aboard the ship Buffalo, and later married Caroline Dean in Adelaide, and settled at Cudlee Creek, and then to Glenelg. Article in Footprints, Northamptonshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 5,no.3, page 67-71, Family History Library Ref. 942.55 D25fo V.5,no.3.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain