Ashton, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Ashton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1682
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Ashton Parish Registers

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

Ashton, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1707-1812

Ashton, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1593-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHTON, a parish in Potterspury district, Northampton; on the Northwestern railway and the Grand Junction canal, near Salcey forest and the Blisworth tunnel, 1½ mile SSE of Roade r. station, and 7 S of Northampton. Post Town, Roade under Northampton. Acres, 1,290. Real property, £1,787. Pop., 374. Houses, 84. The property is divided among a few. The inhabitants have a right of common in Salcey forest. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Peterborough. Value, £275. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there are Baptist and Methodist chapels, and charities £20.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ASHTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Potterspury, hundred of Cleley, S. division of the county of Northampton, 7 miles (S. by E.) from Northampton; containing 417 inhabitants. This parish, which is bounded on the south by the river Tow, comprises by measurement 1100 acres of highly fertile land, chiefly arable; and is situated near the Grand Junction canal, and intersected by the London and Birmingham railway.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £10, and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £275, arising from 235 acres of land allotted in lieu of tithes on the inclosure of the parish. The church is a very ancient structure, with a square tower, and contains a Norman font, several good brasses, and a figure of a Knight Templar. There is a place of worship for Baptists.

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: Potterspury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Preston
  • Poor Law Union: Potterspury
  • Hundred: Cleley
  • Province: Canterbury