Shelf Mark: NH
For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.
County-wide sources:
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Bedfordshire [&] Northamptonshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
National Index of Parish Registers, vol. 9, part 2: Northamptonshire: a guide to Anglican, Roman Catholic & Nonconformist registers before 1837 together with information on Bishop's Transcripts, modern copies & marriage licences. London: SoG, 1991. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [SOGNET]
National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]
RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]
Northamptonshire marriage index 1700-1837 [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM cabinet]
Obituary & records for the counties of Lincoln, Rutland & Northampton 1800-59 [NH/G 27] & [Microfiche.] [LI/REG/86581/1-2]
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Northamptonshire Quarterly Meeting : Z 1647-1836 & 1653-1824, M 1659-1834 & 1734-73, B 1657-1837 & 1658-1776 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3374]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Leicestershire Marriage Licences 1570-1729 - indexes to British Record Society, vol. 38 (includes some people from Northamptonshire) [Photocopy.] [LE/R 98]
Northamptonshire Marriage Licences (Bonds), 1714-17/18 & 1735/6-36 [Typescript] [NH/R 49]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
The Victoria history of the county of Northampton, vol. 1 (includes a chapter on surviving monumental effigies in churches) [NH/G 34]
In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Evenley 1811, 1831 & 1851 censuses & Stoke Bruerne with Shutlanger 1821 census
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:
Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.
Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required
The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:
Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Other major sources include:
An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at British Origins. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives
Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at 1837-online
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court
Or if you do not know the name of the church court:
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
A-H
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Northamptonshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Abington | Abthorpe | Addington, great | Addington, little | Adstone | Alderton | Aldwincle | Apethorpe | Arthingworth | Ashby St Ledgers | Ashley | Ashton | Aston-le-walls | Aynho | Badby | Bainton | Barby | Barnack | Barnwell | Barton Seagrave | Benefield | Billing, Great | Billing, Little | Blakesley | Blatherwycke | Blisworth | Boddington Upper & Lower | Boughton | Bowden, Little | Bozeat | Brackley | Brackley Union | Bradden | Brafield | Brampton ash | Braunston | Braybrooke | Brigstock | Brington, Great | Brixworth | Brockhall | Broughton | Buckby, Long | Bugbrooke | Bulwick | Burton Latimer | Byfield | Castor | Chacombe | Church Brampton | Church Stowe | Clay Coton | Clipston | Cogenhoe | Cold Ashby | Collingtree | Cosgrove | Cottingham with Middleton | Courteenhall | Cranford | Croughton | Culworth | Deene | Dingley | Dodford | Dorchester | Draughton | Duddington | Earls Barton | Easton Maudit | Easton Neston with Hulcote | Easton on the Hill | Ecton | Edgcote | Etton | Evenley | Everdon | Eydon | Farndon, East | Farthingstone | Fawsley | Faxton | Gayton | Glinton | Greatworth | Haddon, West | Hardwick | Hargrave | Harpole | Harringworth | Hartwell | Haselbech or Hazelbeech | Helpston | Heyford, Nether | Higham Ferrers | Hinton in the Hedges
I-Z
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Northamptonshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Isham | Kelmarsh | Kettering | Kings Cliffe | Kings Sutton | Kislingbury | Lamport with Faxton | Lilford | Litchborough | Loddington | Lutton | Maidford | Maidwell | Marholm | Marston St Lawrence | Maxey | Middleton Cheney | Milton (or Middleton) Malsor | Moreton Pinkney | Moulton | Naseby | Nassington | Northampton | Northborough Norton by Daventry | Oakley, Great | Old | Oundle | Overstone | Overthorpe | Oxendon | Passenham with Deanshanger | Paston | Pattishall | Peakirk | Peterborough | Piddington | Pitsford | Plumpton | Polebrook Potterspury | Preston Capes | Preston Deanery | Pytchley | Quinton | Radstone | Raunds | Ringstead | Rockingham | Rothwell | Rushden | Rushton | Scaldwell | Sibbertoft | Slapton | Spratton Stoke Bruerne | Stowe Nine Churches | Sulgrave | Sutton Bassett | Tansor | Thenford | Thornby | Thornhaugh | Thorpe Achurch | Thorpe Mandeville | Thrapston | Tiffield | Towcester | Ufford with Bainton | Upton near Northampton | Upton near Pterborough | Wadenhoe | Walgrave | Wansford | Wappenham | Warkworth | Weedon Lois | Welford | Wellingborough | Welton | Weston by Welland | Whitfield | Whittlebury | Wittering | Woodford Halse | Woodhorn | Yarwell
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