Brafield on the Green, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Brafield on the Green is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names: Brafield

Parish church: St. Lawrence

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1708

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Brafield on the Green Parish Registers

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

Brafield on the Green, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1708-1812

Brafield on the Green, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1611-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRAFIELD, a parish and a subdistrict in Hardingstone district, Northampton. The parish is called also Brafield-on-the-Green; and lies 1½ mile S by E of Billing Road r. station, and 5 E by S of Northampton. Post Town, Little Houghton, under Northampton. Acres, 1,980. Real property, £2,442. Pop., 494. Houses, 108. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Little Houghton, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church was restored in 1858. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £16. The subdistrict contains seven parishes. Pop., 3,414.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

Brafield-on-the-Green (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Hardingstone, hundred of Wymmersley, S. division of Northamptonshire, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Northampton; containing 428 inhabitants. It comprises about 1300 acres, including between fifty and sixty acres of woodland, and is mostly arable; the surface is undulated, and the soil principally clay, and generally fertile. Gravel and stone are obtained, but only fit for the repair of roads. Shoes are made by the greater portion of the male population, and pillow-lace by nearly all the females.

The village lies on the Northampton and Bedford road, and within a mile of the Peterborough railway, which passes through about two acres of land belonging to the Rev. Christopher Smyth.

The living is a discharged vicarage, annexed to that of Little Houghton, and valued in the king’s books at £6. 13. 6¼. The church was in the early English style; but the character of the body of it was completely destroyed about fifty years ago, when the edifice underwent a thorough repair: the tower remains in its original state, but its beauty is much spoiled by unsightly buttresses. The Baptists have a small place of worship; and there is a handsome school-house, lately built by the vicar, the Rev. C. Smyth, who also supports an infant school. Coal and clothing clubs have been established.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

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