Barnwell, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Barnwell is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northamptonshire, created in 1821 from Barnwell All Saints Ancient Parish and Barnwell St Andrew Ancient Parish.

Parish church: All Saints, St Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707

Separate registers exist for Barnwell St Andrew

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1701

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

Barnwell Parish Registers

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

Barnwell, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1701-1811

Barnwell All Saints, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1695-1812

Barnwell St Andrew, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558-1812

Parish History

Barnwell St Andrew

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BARNWELL-ST. ANDREW, a village and a parish in Oundle district, Northampton. The village stands adjacent to the Peterborough railway, 2½ miles SSE of Oundle; and has a station, of the name of Barnwell, on the railway, and a post office, of the name of Barnwell-St. Andrew, under-Oundle. Its name is alleged to be a corruption of “Bairn’s well” and is said to have arisen from an old superstitions belief, that some wells in the neighbourhood had a miraculous efficacy to cure the diseases of children. 

The parish comprises 1,740 acres. Real property, £2,339. Pop., 240. Houses, 50. The property is divided among a few. A castle was erected here, in 1152, by Reginald le Moine, and passed to the family of Montague; and the ruin of it, comprising a quadrangular court, with massive circular towers at the corners, and a grand gateway on the south side, is an interesting specimen of early Norman castellated architecture.

The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Barnwell-All-Saints, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £303. Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church is early English, and has a tower and spire. An hospital for the poor, founded in the time of James I., has an income of £316; and other charities have £195.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BARNWELL (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Oundle, hundred of Polebrook, N. division of the county of Northampton, 2½ miles (S. by E.) from Oundle; containing 282 inhabitants. The parish comprises 1515a. 2r. 17p., and is bounded on the northwest by the Nene; on the east it is bounded by the county of Huntingdon, and the village is a little to the left of the road from Oundle to Thrapstone. Here also is a station of the Northampton and Peterborough railway. Stone for building and for the repair of roads is quarried, and a variety of fossils have been found.

The living is a rectory, to which that of Barnwell All Saints was united in 1821, valued in the king’s books at £17. 2. 1.; net income, £298; patron, Lady Montagu. The tithes of the two parishes were commuted for land and corn-rents in 1830; there are 26 acres of glebe, and an excellent parsonage-house. The church is a fine specimen of the early and decorated English styles, with a tower and spire.

There is a free school, founded in the 2nd of James I. by the Rev. Nicholas Latham, who also established an alms-house for 14 infirm men and women, bequeathing estates for these purposes, and for the relief of persons in distress. The income was augmented in 1824, by a bequest from Mr. William Bigley, of London, who also left an endowment for building a school-house, and educating and clothing 15 girls of Barnwell St. Andrew and Oundle. In the reign of Henry I. a baronial castle was erected here by Reginald le Moine, of which there are considerable remains, including the principal gateway.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Barnwell All Saints

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BARNWELL (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Oundle, hundred of Huxloe, N. division of the county of Northampton, 2¼ miles (S. E. by E.) from Oundle; containing 140 inhabitants. The parish extends to the border of Huntingdonshire, which bounds it on the east; and comprises by measurement 1445 acres. The living is a rectory, united to that of Barnwell St. Andrew, and valued in the king’s books at £15. 6. 8.

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: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Oundle
  • Poor Law Union: Oundle
  • Hundred: Huxloe; Polebrook
  • Province: Canterbury