Brampton Ash, Northamptonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRAMPTON or Brampton Ash (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Market-Harborough, hundred of Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4 miles (E. by. N.) from Harborough, on the road to Rockingham.

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
Brampton Ash 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
Walton, Kenneth John Vialls. The Waltons of Northamptonshire. History of John Walker Walton, and Kitty Vialls married 6 January 1824.Many of the descendants emigrated to USA, India, Australia, and Canada. Surnames in article, Edwards, Robert, Eleanor, Baker, Nash and Dimmock, article dated 1707-1900, and is found in Footsteps, Northamptonshire Family History Society Magazine, vol. 5,no.3.page 63-66, Family History Library Ref. 942.55 D25fo v.5no.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