Thurning, Northamptonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
THURNING (St. James), a parish, in the union of Oundle, partly in the hundred of Polebrooke, N. division of the county of Northampton, but chiefly in that of Leightonstone, county of Huntingdon, 5 miles (S. E.) from Oundle.

Additional information:

Thurning is an Ancient Parish partly in Huntingdonshire and partly in Northamptonshire with the main part of this parish in Huntingdonshire. The area that is in Northamptonshire is in the hundred of Polebrooke.

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Northamptonshire ($)
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Non-Conformists (All other Religions)
The original records are located in the Northamptonshire Record Office. Some records are located in the Huntingdon Record Office.
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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.

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