Whittlewood parishes - Family history

Family history

We are asked regularly for information about the Baptism, Marriage and Burial records of our churches. These provide a rich source of information to family historians and others researching our past history.

Detailed information about family history started with the UK census in 1841 and the Civil registrations of Births, Marriages and Deaths in 1837.

Before this time church records are the major source of information about families. For these records we owe a debt of gratitude to Thomas Cromwell, Vicar General to King Henry VIII, who in 1538, ordered that every wedding, baptism and burial should be recorded.

There was a certain amount of resistance to this at the time, but by the 17th century most priests were doing their duty and from this time our valuable social history started in the form of these records and our parishes are no exception.

In the Whittlewood Parishes all of our old record books are now lodged with the Northampton Record Office.
The records can be viewed by contacting the Archivist:

Records Office
Wootton Hall Park
Northampton
NN4 8BQ

Tel:01604 762129
email: archivist@northamptonshire.gov.uk
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/recordoffice

Whittlewood Parishes records

The following records are held at the Record Office:

Parish	Baptisms	Marriages	Burials
Abthorpe ***	1583-1989	1587-1987,1992-2008	1593-1987
Potterspury	1674-1879	1681-1837	1678-1894
Silverstone	1831-1948	1832-1974	1831-1989
Slapton	1573-2003	1575-2006	1573-2005
Whittlebury	1653-2005	1666-1958	1653-1936

For a full list of the Anglican Parish registers for Northamptonshire held by the Record Office go here.

*** All the records for Abthorpe parish have been transcribed and are available to be searched, free of charge, at www.freereg.org.uk

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