Molesworth Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Molesworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1564
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MOLESWORTH, a parish, with a village, in the district of Thrapston and county of Huntingdon; adjacent to Northamptonshire, 5½ miles ESE of Thrapston r. station. Post town, Thrapston. Acres, 1,710. Real property, £1,755. Pop., 256. Houses, 57. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to J. Welstead, Esq. A tract in the N is called Molesworth Wold. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £280. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church is early English; and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower. Charities, £27.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

MOLESWORTH (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Thrapston, hundred of Leightonstone, county of Huntingdon, 11 miles (W. N. W.) from Huntingdon; containing 221 inhabitants, and comprising by computation 1300 acres. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £11. 10.; net income, £228; patron, the Archbishop of York. The tithes were exchanged for land under an act of inclosure in 1800, with the exception of a small portion since commuted for a rent-charge of £33. 14.; the glebe altogether comprises 296 acres, with a house. The church is a neat ancient structure. Edward Pickering, Esq., in 1697 bequeathed £200, now vested in land let for £27, which sum is distributed among the poor.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Thrapston
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
  • Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Leightonstone
  • Poor Law Union: Thrapston
  • Hundred: Leightonstone
  • Province: Canterbury