Sywell Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Sywell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Sywell Bray Lodge.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Peter and St. Paul

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1572
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SYWELL, a parish, with a village, in Wellingborough district, Northampton; 5 miles W of Wellingborough r. station. Post town, Northampton. Acres, 2,031. Real property, £3,083. Pop., 241. Houses, 48. The manor belongs to Lord Overstone; and the village was rebuilt by him in 1861. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £630. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church’s chancel was rebuilt in 1862; and a parochial school was built in 1866.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SYWELL (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Hamfordshoe, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N. E.) from Northampton, on the road to Stamford; containing 211 inhabitants. The parish comprises by admeasurement 1950 acres, exclusively of 127a. 24p. occupied by Sywell woods: stone is quarried for the roads.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £11. 1. 5½.; net income, £492; patron, Earl Brownlow. There is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains 70 acres. The church is an ancient structure with a tower; the eastern window is of stained glass, inserted at the expense of the Hon. and Rev. H. C. Cust, the rector: the interior of the edifice was entirely renovated in 1838.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Sywell – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at the Church of St. Peter & St. Paul Sywell
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

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

England, Northamptonshire, Sywell – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Sywell, 1706-1888
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sywell (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Sywell, parish registers, 1572-1951
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sywell (Northamptonshire); Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Parish registers for Sywell, 1572-1951
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Sywell (Northamptonshire)

Northamptonshire Historical Directories

Administration

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