Salcey and Hartwell Lodges, Northamptonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SALCEY FOREST, a royal forest on the S border of Northamptonshire; 6½ miles S S E of Northampton. It comprises 1,847 acres, 1, 121 of which are enclosed for navy timber; contains about 1,000 head of deer; and is divided into 4 walks, and governed by a warden and various other officers. Salcey Lodge, the seat of H. Fitzroy, Esq., and Hartwell Lodge, the seat of the Rev.Cursham, are within the forest, and are extra-parochial.

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
Salcey and Hartwell Lodges 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.

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