Peterborough (St John the Baptist), Northamptonshire Genealogy

Guide to Peterborough St John the Baptist, Northamptonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
PETERBOROUGH (St. John the Baptist), a city having separate jurisdiction, the seat of a diocese, and the head of a union and of the hundred of Nassaburgh, or liberty of Peterborough, in the N. division of the county of Northampton, 42 miles (N. E. by E.) from Northampton, and 79 (N. by W.) from London; containing, with the precinct of Minster-close, and exclusively of the chapelries of Dogsthorpe, Eastfield with Newark, and Longthorpe, in that part of the parish which is without the city. There are places of worship in the town for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and other Methodists.

See also Peterborough (St John the Baptist), Cambridgeshire.

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

View Anglican Church Records in FamilySearch Catalog.

Non-conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Non Conformist

 * 1840-1894 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)


 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1849-1855 on FHL Film # 0087027 Item 21
 * Independent Westgate 1810-1837 on FHL Film # 825344 Item 2
 * Wesleyan Church 1822-1837 on FHL Film # 825344 Item 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