Finedon, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Finedon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names: Thingdon

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1539
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FINEDON, or Thingdon, a village and a parish in Wellingborough district, Northampton.

The village stands near the Leicester and Bedford railway, 3½ miles NE by N of Wellingborough; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Higham-Ferrers, both of the name of Finedon.

Acres, 3,650. Real property, £8,418. Pop. in 1851, 1,588; in 1861, 1,840. Houses, 423. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of the shoe manufacture.

The property is much sub-divided. Finedon Hall is the seat of the Dolbens.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £843. Patron, the Rev. G. W. Paul. The church is later English, in very good condition; and has a tower and spire, and an octagonal font.

There are chapels for Independents, Quakers, Wesleyans, and Free Methodists.

A free school has £60; a girls’ school has £78; and other charities have £55.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Northamptonshire, Thingdon

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

England, Northamptonshire, Finedon – Church records ( 2 )
Births and baptisms, 1817-1837
Author: Wesleyan Church (Finedon, Northamptonshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Finedon, 1706-1890
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Finedon (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Finedon – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Finedon, Northampton, England (Wesleyan Methodist) ; christenings, 1817-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Northamptonshire, Finedon – History ( 1 )
Look at Finedon
Author: Bailey, John L. H.; Longstaff, Philip R.

Administration

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