Wakerley, Northamptonshire Genealogy

England Northamptonshire Northamptonshire Parishes

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



Parish History
WAKERLEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Uppingham, hundred of Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6¾ miles (E.) from Uppingham.

WAKERLEY, aparish in the district of Uppingham and county of Northampton; 2½ miles S by E of Luffenham r. station. Post town, South Luffenham, under Stamford. Acres, 2,130. Real property, £2,025. Pop., 223. Houses, 45. The property belongs to the Marquis of Exeter. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £100* Patron, the Marquis of Exeter. The church is ancient.

Additional informaiton:

Wakereley St John the Baptist is a former Ancient Parish church now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church was declared redundant on 3 March 1972, and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 6 September 1974. Recent burials have taken place in the churchyard.

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.

Poor Law Unions
Uppingham Poor Law Union, Rutland

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.

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