Barnack, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Barnack is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Southorpe, Pilsgate, and Pilesgate.

Alternative names: Southorpe with Walcot

Parish church: St. John the Baptist

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1695
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1711

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Barnack Parish Registers

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

Barnack, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1711-1812

Barnack, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1695-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BARNACK, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict in the district of Stamford; the village and the parish in Northampton, the subdistrict variously in Northampton, Lincoln, Huntingdon, and Rutland. The village stands 1½ mile SSE of Uffington r. station, and 3½ ESE of Stamford; and has a post office under Stamford. Pop., 569. Houses, 137. The parish includes also the hamlets of Pilsgate and Southorpe. Acres, 4,440. Real property, £8,699. Pop., 947. Houses, 202. The property is divided among a few. Building-stone is extensively quarried; and was furnished hence for Peterborough and Ely cathedrals, and for several other churches.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £1,025. Patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is partly early Norman, and in very good condition. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and a poors’ estate yielding annually £73. The subdistrict contains sixteen parishes. Acres, 28,722. Pop., 5,692. Houses, 1,148.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BARNACK (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, 3½ miles (S. E.) from Stamford; containing, with the hamlets of Pilsgate and Southorpe, 860 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £28. 10.; net income, £1025; patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The tithes were commuted for corn-rents, under an inclosure act, in the 39th and 40th of George III.

The church is an interesting and very ancient structure, in the early Norman and English styles, with a tower, the lower part of which, from the character of the arch opening from it into the nave, is evidently of more ancient date than the earliest of the Norman details, and probably one of the very few specimens of Saxon architecture remaining in the kingdom. A school is supported by subscription, and by a donation from the funds of the poor’s estate, which consists of fifty-one acres and five tenements, producing a rental of £72. An act for inclosing lands was passed in 1841.

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: Stamford
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Peterborough
  • Poor Law Union: Stamford
  • Hundred: Nassaborough
  • Province: Canterbury