NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MARRIAGE INDEX - over 206,500 entries

Indexing project by Alan Clarke and Marilyn Ponting

                        The aim of this project is to index all marriages from the C of E parish registers for Northamptonshire. 

                    Coverage of the index includes all parishes within the modern day county boundary, (with the exception of Little Bowden which is now

                    in Leicestershire), work has also commenced on the soke of Peterborough, (these parishes now being in Cambridgeshire).

                        Coverage is restricted to availability of parish registers held at Northampton Records Office,

                    (some additional entries are taken from  registers not deposited with NRO).

                    This index also includes  some banns and entries taken from Bishops Transcripts.

                    We have finished indexing all C of E registers [deposited at NRO] between 1700-1860 (Including the soke of Peterborough).

                        You can purchase this index on four separate CD's, click here for more details.

                        Entries are recorded in the following formats :-

Pre-1754 entries

[Above] Parish Register entry from 1792

1754-1837 entries

1837+ entries

[Above] Parish Register entry from 1871

                        If the marriage was by license than this has been recorded, if there is any other information or a discrepancy with the entry

                        than this has also been recorded.  An up to date list of parishes [with coverage] is copied at the bottom of this web page.

FREE LOOK UPS

                        All entries are stored in a database which can be searched easily.  All Look Up requests are FREE, please send your email to

                    either Marilyn Ponting or Alan Clarke, please put 'Marriage Look Ups'  in the subject title of your email. Unless you state

                    otherwise all results will be on the groom's surname only.  We will to reply to your request within 7 days using Microsoft Word

                    as an attachment.

                        Some entries were hard to decipher so please check the original parish registers whenever possible.

                    We are particularly interested in collecting 'strays', [i.e. Northants people who married in other counties], a complete list of what

                    we have is online, (now over 4,500 entries), please email us with any contributions you have, strays can include people born in

                    Northants but married elsewhere.  Two example of strays are copied below :-

                        All Northants strays are put online for other people to view, click on the button to see the web page.

                        We are also interested in collecting marriages that took place at the Register Office or any non conformist place of worship.

                        An example of this is copied below :-

                        Please send any entries you have to clarkealanj@myway.com

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MARRIAGE INDEX - PARISH COVERAGE

             August 30th, 2008  UPDATE

Duston extended.

OTP is an abbreviation for 'of this parish'.

What does 'married by license' mean? Click here for an explanation.

                        Notes :-
                        Marston St. Lawrence (1754-1812) limited coverage taken from the bishops transcripts as the original parish registers were burnt.
                        Greatworth (1754-1812) coverage taken from both the parish registers and bishops transcripts as the original registers suffered from damp.
                        Lutton (1754-1841) all entries are from the bishop transcripts, patchy coverage in the 1754-1812 part.
                        Clapton (1754-1812) limited coverage from the BT's, original register not having survived.