Weekley Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Weekley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Other places in the parish include: Boughton.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1550
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1709
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WEEKLEY, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; 2½ miles NE of Kettering r. station. Post town, Kettering. Acres, 1,800. Real property, £2,196. Pop., 268. Houses, 52. The manor, with Boughton House, belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £126. Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church is early English. There are an endowed school with £20 a year, and an alms house-hospital with £120.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WEEKLEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Kettering, hundred of Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 1¾ mile (N. E. by N.) from Kettering; containing 271 inhabitants. It is situated on the road from Kettering to Stamford, and comprises 1560a. 2r. 23p., of which about 264 acres are woodland, and the rest arable and pasture. The soil is marked by several varieties, consisting in some parts of light earth, and in others of clayey admixtures.
Boughton House, here, the seat of the Duke of Buccleuch, is a very large mansion in the Elizabethan style, with splendidly painted ceilings, and containing many original portraits of celebrated characters of the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., &c, with other valuable paintings. In the park are some noble cedar-trees, limes, and chesnuts, and fine old elms, disposed in avenues several miles in length, giving to the scenery of this part of the county its distinguishing features. Limestone is found in the parish, and is used for building and the repair of roads.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £9. 0. 5.; net income, £94; patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The tithes were commuted for an allotment of land in 1807; there is a glebe-house, and the glebe contains 70 acres. The church is ornamented with a spire, and the interior, which is very neatly furnished, contains some monuments to the Montagu family, among which is one to Edward Montagu, Knt., chief justice of the king’s bench, who died in 1555.
A school is endowed with land producing £17 per annum; and near the south side of the church, is an hospital for seven poor men and two widows, endowed with property in land, valued at £130 per annum, by Sir Edward Montagu. The remains of Weekley Hall, now converted into cottages, are encompassed by a moat.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Northamptonshire
- Civil Registration District: Kettering
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Weldon
- Poor Law Union: Kettering
- Hundred: Corby
- Province: Canterbury