Raunds Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Raunds is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1581
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Particular Baptist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RAUNDS, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Thrapstone district, Northampton.

The village stands 1¾ mile E of the Northampton and Peterborough railway, and 3¾ S of Thrapstone; carries on extensive shoe-making; and has a station on the Midland railway, a post-office under Thrapstone, and a temperance hall.

The parish comprises 3, 680 acres. Real property, £7,074. Pop. in 1851, 1,870: in 1861, 2, 337. Houses, 511. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of shoe-manufacture. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster and Sir J. Langham, Bart. There is a petrifying spring.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £250. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and spire.

There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £18 a year, and charities £44.

Grimbald, who built Trinity College chapel in Cambridge, was a native.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Raunds – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at Saint Peter’s & the Methodist church Raunds
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

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

England, Northamptonshire, Raunds – Church records ( 7 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Raunds, 1706-1882
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Raunds (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Raunds, parish registers, 1581-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Raunds (Northamptonshire); Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Parish registers for Raunds, 1581-1966
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Raunds (Northamptonshire)

Raunds, Northants, p.r.
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Raunds (Northamptonshire); Cobb, John L.

Record of members, 1841-1853
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Raunds Branch (Northamptonshire)

Record of members, ca. 1837-1858
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bedfordshire Conference

The register book for the parish of Raunds beginning in the year of our Lord 1662[-1701]
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Raunds (Northamptonshire); Alexander, Paul

Administration

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