Thornby Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Thornby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Helen
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1649
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1708
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
THORNBY, a parish in Brixworth district, Northampton; 5 miles NW of Brixworth r. station. Post town, Welford, under Rugby. Acres, 1,212. Real property, £2,634. Pop., 252. Houses, 52. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £364. Patron, the Rev. J. Couchman. The church is good. Charities £5 and 24 acres of poors’ land.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
THORNBY (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Brixworth, hundred of Guilsborough, S. division of the county of Northampton, 3½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Welford; containing 229 inhabitants. This place is named in Domesday book Torneberie. At the Dissolution, the monasteries of Sulby and Pipewell appear to have had lands here; and in the reign of Elizabeth, a part of the property which had belonged to the former institution was granted to Sir Christopher Hatton.
The parish comprises about 1200 acres, and is intersected by the road from Northampton to Leicester. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13, and in the gift of the Rev. J. Couchman: the tithes have been commuted for £329, and the glebe contains 48 acres. The poor have 24 acres of common land.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Brixworth
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Haddon
- Poor Law Union: Brixworth
- Hundred: Guilsborough
- Province: Canterbury