Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Kelmarsh is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Northamptonshire, created in 1620 from a chapelry in Maidwell Ancient Parish.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1561
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KELMARSH, a village and a parish in the district of Market-Harborough, and county of Northampton.

The village stands near the Market-Harborough and Northampton railway, 5 miles S of Market-Harborough; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Northampton. Acres, 2,751. Real property, £5,826. Pop., 167. Houses, 31. The manor, with Kelmarsh Hall, belongs to R. Naylor, Esq. The land is chiefly in pasture.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £640. Patron, R. Naylor, Esq. The church is early English, in good condition; and has a spire.

There is 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, Kelmarsh – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at the Church of St. Denys, Kelmarsh
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

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

England, Northamptonshire, Kelmarsh – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Kelmarsh, 1706-1885
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kelmarsh (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Kelmarsh, parish registers, 1599-1815
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kelmarsh (Northamptonshire); Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Parish registers for Kelmarsh, 1599-1920
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Kelmarsh (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Kelmarsh – History ( 1 )
Kelmarsh, a parochial history
Author: Wall, J. Clifford

Administration

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