Ketton Rutland Family History Guide
Ketton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Rutland. Tixover is a chapelry of Ketton.
Ketton parish includes: Geeston, Aldgate, and Kelthorpe.
Parish church: St Mary the Virgin
Parish registers begin: 1561
Nonconformists: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
- North Luffenham
- Edith Weston
- South Luffenham
- Duddington, Northamptonshire
- Tinwell
- Empingham
- Barrowden
- Normanton
- Collyweston, Northamptonshire
- Tixover
- Easton by Stamford, Northamptonshire
Ketton Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Ketton, a village and a parish in the district of Stamford and county of Rutland.
The village stands on the river Chater, adjacent to the Peterborough and Syston railway, near the boundary with Northamptonshire, 3¼ miles SW by W of Stamford; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Stamford.
The parish contains also the hamlets of Geeston, Aldgate, and Kelthorpe. Acres, 2,740. Real property, £5,423; of which £258 are in quarries. Pop., 1,053. Houses, 242.
The old manor belonged, in the time of Stephen, to Richard de Humel; and passed, through various hands, to the Harringtons and the Noels. The prebendal manor of Ketton is now held in lease by the Hon. H. Middleton; the manor of Kelthorpe belongs to Lord Aveland; and the manors of Grenehams, Whitwells, and Hutchins belong to Lord Northwick. Ketton Hall, on the prebendal estate, is now held by John N. Fazakerley, Esq. The Ketton quarries, about a mile N of the village, are noted for their excellent freestone.
The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Tixover, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £175. Patron, the Prebendary of Ketton. The church is partly Norman, partly early English; comprises nave, aisles, chancel, and N and S transepts, with a central tower, surmounted by a spire 180 feet high; was restored, at much expense, in 1861-3, with insertion of early decorated English new tracery in most of the windows; and contains three sedilia and an old painting of St. Christopher.
There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and some charities.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
KETTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stamford, hundred of East, county of Rutland, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Stamford; containing 951 inhabitants.
This parish, which is intersected by the road from Stamford, through Uppingham, to Leicester, comprises 3122a. 19p.; the surface is undulated, the soil clay and loam, and the substratum limestone. There are extensive quarries of freestone of a very superior quality, much used for building in the vicinity, and of which considerable quantities are sent to distant counties.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Tixover annexed, valued in the king’s books at £8; net income, £107; patron, the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is principally in the early English style, but in the west end has an intermixture of Norman; the date of the south porch is 1232. It had formerly north and south transepts, which have been destroyed; the tower and spire are very handsome, and in good preservation.
Here is a place of worship for Independents. In 1791, Sophia Elizabeth Edwards gave £1000 three per cents, for the support of a school.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Ketton Parish Registers
Marriage Licences
Lincoln Marriage Licences
Lincoln Marriage Licences. An Abstract of the Allegation Books preserved in The Registry of the Bishop of Lincoln 1598 to 1628. Edited by A Gibbons. London: Mitchell & Hughes, 140 Wardour Street, W. 1888.
The name in brackets at the end of each entry is the church where the marriage was to be solemnized; where a saint’s name only is given, the church was at Lincoln. “Ditto ” in brackets signifies the same church as in the preceding entry; and where both parties reside in the same parish, and the marriage was to be solemnized at their parish church, the name is not repeated in brackets. In order to economize space, “aged” is abbreviated “æt.,” “yeoman” “yeom.,” “husbandman” “husb.,” “widow” “wid., “application” “appln.;” besides a few other obvious abbreviations. Places situate in other counties than Lincoln are generally so specified.
1623 Nov. 17 Nicholas Williams, of Ketton, co. Rutland, yeom., & Anne Bromley, of Stubton, spr. Appln. by Wm ffrothingham, of Ketton, yeom. [Stubton. ]
Ketton Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Rutland
- Civil Registration District: Stamford
- Probate Court: Pre-1851 – Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Ketton with Tixover, Post-1850 – Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Peterborough
- Rural Deanery: Post-1850 – Rutland, Pre-1851 – None
- Poor Law Union: Stamford
- Hundred: East (Rutlandshire)
- Province: Canterbury