Rushden, Northamptonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
RUSHDEN (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Higham-Ferrers, N. division of the county of Northampton, 1½ mile (S.) from Higham-Ferrers. The General and Particular Baptists, and the Wesleyans, have places of worship.

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
Rushden 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
Allen, Derek. Ann Mayes - a Family at List. History and family tree of Joseph May with the first names of the grandchildren, Joseph (6), Richards, Tapp, Willam, Thomas, Ann, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret and Martha. Article dated 1649-1699, and found in Footprints, Northamptonshire Family History Society Magazine. vol.34,no.4.page 23-25. Family History Library Ref. 942.55 D25fo

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

Websites
Rushden &amp; District History Society