Grendon, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Grendon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

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

GRENDON, a parish in Wellingborough district, Northampton; 1¾ mile S of Castle-Ashby r. station, and 5½ SSW of Wellingborough. It has a post office under Northampton.

Acres, 3,120. Real property, £3,579. Pop., 610. Houses, 134. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Northampton.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £120. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is partly Norman, partly early English; has a fine later English tower; contains two brasses of meg in armour; and is good. Charities, £22.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Grendon – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at St. Mary’s Church, Grendon
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

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

England, Northamptonshire, Grendon – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Grendon, 1813-1880
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Grendon (Northamptonshire)

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

Parish registers for Grendon, 1559-1969
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Grendon (Northamptonshire)

Administration

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