Cosgrove, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

Cosgrove is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Old Stratford and Puxley.

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1691
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Furtho
• Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire
• Wolverton, Buckinghamshire
• Hanslope, Buckinghamshire
• Castlethorpe, Buckinghamshire
• Passenham with Deanshanger

Cosgrove Parish Registers

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

Cosgrove, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1706-1812

Cosgrove, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1692-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COSGROVE, a village and a parish in Potterspury district, Northampton. The village stands near the Bucks boundary, Watling-street, the Buckingham and Grand Junction canals, and the confluence of the Tove and Ouse rivers, 1½ mile N of Stony Stratford, and 1¾ NW of Wolverton r. station; and has a post office under Stony Stratford. The parish includes also part of the hamlets of Old Stratford and Puxley. Acres, 1, 760. Real property, £5, 323. Pop., 776. Houses, 143. The property is divided among a few. Cosgrove House is the seat of Mrs. H. Mansel. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £363. Patron, Mrs. H. Mansel. The church is old but good.

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

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

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