Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire Genealogy

Guide to Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
COGENHOE, or Cucknoe (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Hardingstone, hundred of Wymmersley, S. division of the county of Northampton, 5¼ miles (E.) from Northampton. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Non-Conformist Records

 * 1840-1894 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Genealogy From Periodicals
Smart, Anna. The Cogenhoe Choir Revisited. "Ave Atque Vale" and the Atterbury family. history and family names of John Atterebury and Elizabeth nee Lord (Attabury, Attenbury, spelling), with the following surnames of the extented family. Luckett, Ingram, Waples, Redley, Bedford, Tarry, Smith, Billingham, and Luckett. Article dated 1773-1905, and is in Footprints, Northamptonshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol.21.pt1, August 1999, pages 36-39. Family History Library Ref. 942.55 D25fo vol. 21.no.1

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Northamptonshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain