Abthorpe, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Abthorpe is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northamptonshire, created in 1737 from Towcester Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Challock, Foscote, and Foxcote.

Parish church: St. John The Baptist

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1583
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1712

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Abthorpe Parish Registers

These records include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Abthorpe, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1712-1812

Abthorpe, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1583-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ABTHORPE, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict in the district of Towcester, Northampton. The village stands on the river Tove, 3 miles WSW of Towcester, and 8 SW by W of Blisworth r. station; and has a post office under Towcester. The parish includes the hamlet of Foscote. Acres, 1,919. Real property, £2,903. Pop., 541. Houses, 110. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £215. Patron, alternately the Bishop of Lichfield and the Trustees of Leeson’s charity. The church is good. Charities, £191. The subdistrict comprises seventeen entire parishes, and parts of two others. Acres, 22,323. Pop., 5,473. Houses, 1,287.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ABTHORPE (St. John The Baptist), a parish, in the union and hundred of Towcester, S. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Towcester; containing, with the hamlets of Charlock and Foscot, 449 inhabitants.

This parish was formerly a chapelry dependent upon the vicarage of Towcester, from which it was separated by act of parliament in 1737. It is situated on the right bank of the river Tow, which bounds it on the north-west; and consists of 1895a. 3r. 17p., whereof two-thirds are arable and the remainder pasture. Limestone is quarried. The female population is employed in the manufacture of lace.

The living is a vicarage not in charge; net income, £184, with a house; patrons, alternately, the Bishop of Lichfield (to whom the impropriation belongs) and the trustees of Mrs. Jane Leeson’s charity estate. The tithes were partially commuted for land under an inclosure act in 1822, and those of the Bishop have been recently commuted for £220; there are about 50 acres of impropriate glebe.

Mrs. Leeson, by will dated in 1646, bequeathed certain property to the poor in this and other villages, and also for the instruction of children in a school-house here, previously erected at her expense: the estate at Abthorpe comprises a dwelling-house and about 60 acres of land, together with an allotment of nearly 57 acres under the act of inclosure.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Towcester
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Brackley
  • Poor Law Union: Towcester
  • Hundred: Towcester
  • Province: Canterbury