Northamptonshire, England Genealogy

England Northamptonshire

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

County Information
Northamptonshire is landlocked between eight other counties: Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Buckinghamshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the south-west and Lincolnshire to the north-east – England's shortest county boundary at 19 metres (62 ft).[3] Northamptonshire is the southernmost county in the East Midlands region.

Apart from the county town of Northampton, other large population centres include Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Rushden and Daventry.

Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Northamptonshire.

Civil Registration Districts
When civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Northamptonshire was divided into a number of registration districts, each containing several parishes. The index to the civil records gives the name of the district where an event took place. Click here to see a list of the civil districts in Northamptonshire and the parishes covered by each. Read more about England Civil Registration.

Websites

 * Northamptonshire Resources and help pages on RootsChat Northamptonshire Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * Northamptonshire Family History Society
 * Northamptonshire County Council
 * Northamptonshire Parish Registers
 * Northampton Family History
 * FHLFavorites info
 * Desborough Study
 * Before 1858, every town and parish in Northamptonshire was under the probate jurisdiction of several ecclesiastical courts. To read more about probate records and see a list of Northamptonshire towns and parishes and the probate courts that had jurisdiction over them, go to Northamptonshire Probate Records.