Brixworth, Northamptonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BRIXWORTH (All Saints), a parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Orlingbury, N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N.) from Northampton. There is a place of worship for 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:

The parish registers survive from 1546 and, apart from the volumes currently in use, are kept at Northamptonshire Record Office.

Rev James Jackson, who was vicar of the parish for 35 years starting in 1735, compiled an index to Brixworth families from the commencement of the registers. This work was largely arranged by families and included information from his personal knowledge as well as entries from the registers. Only a few entries were added after Jackson died in 1770. The index therefore includes extensive information about the origins and destinations of people who arrived at or migrated from Brixworth during the early and middle parts of the 18th century. This manuscript is also kept at NRO, where its reference is "ML 380". Further details of this source appear in

Genealogy From Periodicals
Howcutt, Francis. The Howcutt Family At Brixworth. Family history of Thomas Howcutt 1776-1844 and Elizabeth Martin and descendants, with some of the family at Spratton, and Sussex Lavington, and London. Article dated from 1776-1851, with the following surnames, Adnitt, Sykes, Moody, Allen, Jeacock, and Clay. Article in Footprints, Northamptonshire Family History Soc. Magazine, vol.5.no.2. page 42-44. Family History Library Ref. 942.55 D25fo vol.5.

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.

An index to names in wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury where the testators were from Brixworth appears in the relevant section of the Brixworth History Society website.

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

Websites
Brixworth History Society