Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

|
Updated on
Links marked with a * mean that we may earn a small commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you. It all helps to keep the site online and free for everyone.

Burton Latimer is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Burton Latimer Parish Registers

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

Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1706-1812

Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1558-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BURTON-LATIMER, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; adjacent to the Leicester and Bedford railway, 3½ miles SE of Kettering. It has a station, jointly with Isham, on the railway, and a post-office under Wellingborough. Acres, 2,690. Real property, £5,563. Pop., 1,158.  Houses, 258. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged once to the Latimers. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Peterborough. Value, £1,000. Patron, the Rev. F. B. Newman. The church was restored in 1869. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and charities £290.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BURTON-LATIMER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Kettering, hundred of Huxloe, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N. W.) from Higham-Ferrers; containing 965 inhabitants. This place derives its distinguishing appellation from the barons Latimer, who had a residence here. The parish is intersected by the road from Higham-Ferrers to Kettering, and comprises by computation 2300 acres. The soil is a free loam, and very good except in the wold, where it is cold stiff land.

The immediate locality is not picturesque, owing to the land having been but lately inclosed; but the surrounding country is very pretty, well wooded, and undulated. Limestone of the oolite formation, with fossils, is abundant. A mill for spinning worsted-yarn affords employment to about 100 persons; and there is a large manufactory for Brussels and Kidderminster carpets, in connexion with it.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £29. 10.; patron, David Bevan, Esq.; incumbent, the Rev. D. Barclay Bevan. The tithes were commuted for land, under an inclosure act, in 1800: the glebe now comprises 700 acres; and the parsonage is a good house, much enlarged and improved by the present rector. The church is a handsome structure, partly in the Norman and partly in the early English style, and contains a richly carved oak screen: a new east window has been put up in the chancel by the Rev. Mr. Bevan, by whom, also, stalls have been erected.

There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans. The free school was founded in the reign of Elizabeth, by Margaret Burbank, and William Vaux, Lord Harrowden, the former of whom endowed it with 10 acres of land, and the latter with a house. The Rev. S. Barwick, in 1792, left an endowment of 7 acres, producing £20 per annum, for preparing children for the free school; and an infants’ school has been lately established by the incumbent. The rent of 40 acres of land is distributed among the industrious poor, and 70 acres are set apart in lieu of the right of cutting furze.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Kettering
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Higham Ferrers
  • Poor Law Union: Kettering
  • Hundred: Huxloe
  • Province: Canterbury