Wilby Northamptonshire Family History Guide
Wilby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1562
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WILBY, a parish, with a village, in Wellingborough district, Northampton; 3 miles SW of Wellingborough r. stations. It has a post-office under Northampton. Acres, 1,120. Real property, £2,599. Pop., 456. Houses, 95. The property is divided among a few. There are a leather factory, and an extensive brick, tile, and lime manufactory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £369. Patron, M. H. Stockdale, Esq. The church’s chancel was recently rebuilt; and its tower and spire are very beautiful.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WILBY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, hundred of Hamfordshoe, N. division of the county of Northampton, 2 miles (S. W. by W.) from Wellingborough; containing 428 inhabitants. This parish is on the road to Northampton, and comprises 1134a. 22p. The soil is of various quality: there are some quarries of limestone, used for the roads, and for burning into lime. The village is pleasantly situated about a mile from the river Nene; the inhabitants are partly employed in the manufacture of parchment, and in the preparation of wash leather.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 19. 4½.; net income, £386; patron, the Rev. William Stockdale. The tithes were commuted for 176 acres of land in 1801, and there are about 68 acres of glebe, with a house. The church is in the early and decorated English styles, with a handsome tower surmounted by an octangular turret, above which rises a lofty and graceful spire, the whole forming an elegant specimen of the later English style. Belemnites, ammonites, and other fossils are found in the parish. Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, was rector of Wilby.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- 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