Thrapston Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Thrapston is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names: Thrapstone

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1701

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Bridge Street, Thrapston
Bridge Street, Thrapston

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

THRAPSTON, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Northamptonshire. The town stands on the river Nen, and on the Northampton and Peterborough railway, at the intersection of the line from Kettering to Huntingdon, 20 miles NE by N of Northampton.

It had a ruined hermitage in the time of Henry VIII.; comprises four streets, in the form of a cross; is a seat of petty sessions and county courts; and has a head post-office, a r. station with telegraph, three banking offices, a hotel, a court-house, a corn exchange, a bridge, an ancient church partly rebuilt in 1841, a Baptist chapel, national schools, a girls’ educational endowment of £21 a year, a workhouse, a weekly market on Saturday, and three annual fairs.

The parish comprises 990 acres. Real property, £5,013. Pop., 1,257. Houses, 247.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £430. Patron, the Lord Chancellor.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Northamptonshire, Thrapston – Church records ( 6 )
Births and burials, 1794-1837
Author: Baptist Church (Thrapston, Northamptonshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Thrapston, 1701-1878
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thrapston (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Thrapston, parish registers, 1560-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thrapston (Northamptonshire); Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Parish registers for Thrapston, 1560-1984
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thrapston (Northamptonshire)

Thrapston parish extracts, 1641-1702
Author: Spencer, Sidnee D. (Sidnee Day), 1938-; Church of England. Parish Church of Thrapston (Northamptonshire)

Thrapston registers [1688-1709]
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Thrapston (Northamptonshire); Alexander, Paul

England, Northamptonshire, Thrapston – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. – Indexes ( 1 )
Card index to births in workhouses in Northamptonshire
Author: Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Northamptonshire Historical Directories

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Thrapston
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Oundle
  • Poor Law Union: Thrapston
  • Hundred: Navisford
  • Province: Canterbury