Apethorpe with Woodnewton, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Apethorpe with Woodnewton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northamptonshire, created in 1836 from Apethorpe Ancient Parish and Woodnewton Ecclesiastical Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Moorhay Lodge, Newton Wood, and Woodnewton.

Alternative names: Apethorpe

Parish church: St. Leonard

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1676
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605

Separate registers exist for Woodnewton

  • Parish registers: 1588
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Apethorpe with Woodnewton Parish Registers

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

Apethorpe, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1676-1812

Woodnewton, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1588-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

APETHORPE, a parish in Oundle district, Northampton; on an affluent of the river Nen, 3¾ miles W by S of Elton r. station, and 5 SW of Wansford. It has a post office under Wansford; and it includes Moorhay Lodge in Rockingham forest, which some account extra parochial. Acres, 2,630. Real property, £4,335. Pop., 248. Houses, 56. Apethorpe Hall is the seat of the Earl of Westmoreland; has a statue of James I.; and was the place where that monarch first met his favourite Villiers.

The living is a vicarage, united in 1868 to Woodnewton, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of P. The church is good, and contains a splendid monument to Sir W. Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and founder of Emmanuel college, Cambridge. Charities, £66.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

APETHORPE (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Oundle, hundred of Willybrook, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4¼ miles (S. W. by W.) from Wansford; containing 269 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from King’s Cliff to Oundle, and on the Willybrook, at the border of Rockingham forest; and comprises 1669a. 15p., a portion of which is occupied by Apethorpe Hall, the seat of the Earl of Westmoreland.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £80; patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church contains a sumptuous monument to the memory of Sir Anthony Mildmay, Bart., and his lady; and another with the recumbent figure of an infant, the eldest son of Lord Burghersh, beautifully sculptured by a Florentine artist. The Earl of Westmoreland, by indenture in 1684, charged a farm with the payment of £36 annually in lieu of certain rent-charges assigned by his ancestors, for apprenticing boys and girls of Apethorpe, Wood-Newton, Nassington, and Yarwell.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Directories

Kelly Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire 1869 – Google Books

Kelly Post Office Directory of Northamptonshire 1885 – Archive.org

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Oundle
  • Probate Court: Pre-1851 – Court of the Peculiar of Nassington, Post-1850 – Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1851 – None, Post-1850 – Oundle
  • Poor Law Union: Oundle
  • Hundred: Willybrook
  • Province: Canterbury