Easton by Stamford, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Easton by Stamford or Easton on the Hill is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names: Easton, Easton on the Hill

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1578
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1701

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Easton by Stamford Parish Registers

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

Easton on the Hill, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1700-1812

Easton on the Hill, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1580-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EASTON, a parish in the district of Stamford and county of Northampton; at the verge of the county, on the river Welland, and on the Syston and Peterborough railway, 2 miles WSW of Stamford. It has a post office under Stamford. Acres, 3,170. Real property, £3,985. Pop., 984. Houses, 223. Easton Hall is the seat of the Shuttleworths. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £440. Patron, the Marquis of Exeter. The church is ancient, and has a tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A school has £82 from endowment; and other charities have £66.

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