Thorpe Malsor Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Thorpe Malsor is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Leonard

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Independent/Congregational.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THORPE-MALSOR, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; 2¼ miles WNW of Kettering r. station. Post town, Kettering. Acres, 680. Real property, £1,968. Pop., 251. Houses, 55. The manor belongs to T. P. Maunsell, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £320. Patron, T. P. Maunsell, Esq. The church is decorated English.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

THORPE-MALSOR (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Kettering, hundred of Rothwell, N. division of the county of Northampton, 2 miles (W. N. W.) from Kettering; containing 297 inhabitants.

The parish comprises about 1000 acres: there are several quarries of red-sandstone, used for building. Thorpe-Malsor manor-house, a good building of the age of James I., and in the form of the letter H, is the seat of T. P. Maunsell, Esq., M.P.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £11. 14. 2.; net income, £255; patron, Mr. Maunsell. The church is in the later English style, with a lofty spire, and contains memorials to the Maunsell family. Robert Talbot, an early English antiquary, was born here about the close of the fifteenth century.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Thorpe-Malsor – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at All Saints Church Thorpe Malsor
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

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

England, Northamptonshire, Thorpe-Malsor – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Thorpe-Malsor, 1706-1874
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorpe-Malsor (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Thorpe-Malsor, parish registers, 1538-1816
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorpe-Malsor (Northamptonshire); Northamptonshire Record Office

Parish registers for Thorpe-Malsor, 1538-1986
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thorpe-Malsor (Northamptonshire)

Northamptonshire Historical Directories

Administration

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