Peakirk Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Peakirk is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire. Glinton is a chapelry of Peakirk.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1701

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PEAKIRK, a parish, with a village, in Peterborough district, Northampton; on the Great Northern railway, adjacent to the river Welland at the boundary with Lincolnshire, 3¼ miles SE of Market-Deeping. It has a station on the railway, and a postal letter-box under Market-Deeping.

Acres, 630. Real property, £1, 864. Pop., 246. Houses, 56. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £335. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church is partly Norman, partly of later dates; and has a bell-gable campanile.

A chapel of the13th century, in the geometric style, stood in the village; belonged to Crowland abbey; is now a dwelling-house; and has a well-designed E window.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Northamptonshire, Peakirk – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Peakirk, 1701-1904
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Peakirk (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Peakirk, parish registers, 1560-1814
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Peakirk (Northamptonshire); Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Marriages at Peakirk, 1617-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Peakirk (Northamptonshire); Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913; Faithfull, R. C. (Robert Colquhoun); Longdon, Henry Isham

Parish register transcripts, 1814-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Northborough (Northamptonshire); Faithfull, W.

Parish registers for Peakirk, 1560-1980
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Peakirk (Northamptonshire)

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