Roade Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Roade is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1587
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1704

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ROADE, a village and a parish in Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire.

The village stands near the North-western railway, 1½ mile E of the Grand junction canal, and 5½ S of Northampton; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Northampton.

The parish comprises 1, 600 acres. Real property, £2, 840. Pop., 664. Houses, 172. The property is much subdivided.

The manor belonged to St. James’ abbey; was given, at the dissolution, to R. Fermor, Esq.; passed, in the time of James II., to S. Hoe, Esq.; and belongs now to the Duke of Grafton. The manor-house is now a farm-house, called the Hyde.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £103. Patrons, the Duke of Grafton and the Rector of Ashton. The church is mainly Norman, with a tower; and includes an aisle of 1850.

There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, a church school, four alms-houses, and charities £26.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Roade – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin and the Former Baptist Church, Roade
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

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

England, Northamptonshire, Roade – Church history ( 1 )
Roade Baptist Church, 1688-1938 : the story of a Northamptonshire church during two and a half centuries
Author: Payne, Ernest A.

England, Northamptonshire, Roade – Church records ( 5 )
Births, 1816-1837
Author: Baptist Church (Roade, Northamptonshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Roade, 1704-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Roade (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Roade, parish registers, 1587-1842
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Roade (Northamptonshire); Northamptonshire Record Office

Northampton and Daventry Wesleyan Methodist Circuits : historic roll 1899-1904
Author: EurekA Partnership

Parish registers for Roade, 1587-1930
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Roade (Northamptonshire)

Administration

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