Ecton, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Ecton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1708

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ECTON, a parish in Wellingborough district, Northamptonshire; on the river Nen, and on the Northampton and Peterborough railway, near Castle-Ashby r. station, 6 miles W by N of Northampton.

It has a post office under Northampton. Acres, 1, 790. Real property, £5, 036. Pop., 640. Houses, 140. The property is divided among a few.

Ecton Hall is the seat of the Isted family; and has a summer-house by Inigo Jones.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £570. Patron, the Crown. The church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £30. The parsonage contains a portrait of Hogarth by himself.

Whalley, the editor of Bridge’s County History, was a native; and the ancestors of Franklin, for three centuries, were residents.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Ecton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Ecton
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

England, Northamptonshire, Ecton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Ecton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Northamptonshire, Ecton – Census – 1841 ( 1 )
Northants. [NRO M345] Earls Barton 1841 census
Author: Alexander, Paul

England, Northamptonshire, Ecton – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Ecton, 1708-1830
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ecton (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Ecton, parish registers, 1559-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ecton (Northamptonshire); Northamptonshire Record Office

Parish registers for Ecton, 1559-1986
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ecton (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Ecton – History ( 1 )
The history and antiquities of Ecton in the county of Northampton
Author: Cole, John

Maps

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

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wellingborough
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Rothwell
  • Poor Law Union: Wellingborough
  • Hundred: Hamfordshoe
  • Province: Canterbury