Eye, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Eye is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1543
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1701

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EYE, a parish in Peterborough district, Northampton; adjacent to Catswater, and to the Peterborough and Lynn railway, 3¼ miles N of Peterborough. It has a post-office under Peterborough, and a r. station.

Acres, 2,670. Real property, £6,410. Pop., 1,375. Houses, 329. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £312. Patron, the Bishop of P. The church was rebuilt in 1846, and has a lofty spire of 1862.

There are two Methodist chapels and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Northamptonshire, Eye – Church history ( 1 )
Eye life
Author: Randall, Philip J.

England, Northamptonshire, Eye – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Eye, 1701-1872
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eye (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Eye, parish registers, 1543-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eye (Northamptonshire); Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Parish registers for Eye, 1543-1945
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Eye (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Eye – History ( 1 )
Eye life
Author: Randall, Philip J.

Maps

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

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Peterborough
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Peterborough
  • Poor Law Union: Peterborough
  • Hundred: Nassaborough
  • Province: Canterbury