Brigstock, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Brigstock is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire. Stanion is a chapelry of Brigstock.

Alternative names: Brigstock with Stanion

Parish church: St. Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1641
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Brigstock Parish Registers

These records include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Brigstock, Northamptonshire Bishops Transcripts 1707-1812

Brigstock, Northamptonshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1641-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRIGSTOCK, a village and a parish in Thrapston district, Northampton. The village stands on an affluent of the river Nen, near Rockingham forest, 6 miles NNW of Thrapston r. station, and 7½ NE of Kettering. It has a post office under Thrapston, and fairs on 25 April, 4 Sept., and 22 Nov.; and was once a market-town.

The parish comprises 5,900 acres. Real property, £8,114. Pop., 1,159. Houses, 266. The property is divided among a few. Brigstock Park belonged formerly to the Montagues. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Stanion, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £236. Patron, the Duke of Cleveland. The church is partially Norman, and good; and there are Independent and Primitive Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £20 a year, and charities £65.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BRIGSTOCK (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Thrapston, hundred of Corby, N. division of the county of Northampton, 22 miles (N. E.) from Northampton; containing 1262 inhabitants. It embraces 6013a. 3r. 21p., a large portion of which is occupied by parks and plantations; the village is of some extent, and situated about the middle of the parish. The lands formerly belonged to the dukes of Montague, whose ancient manor-house is still remaining.

James I. granted a weekly market to be held on Thursday, and fairs on the festivals of St. Mark the Evangelist, St. Bartholomew the Apostle, and St. Martin: the market has long since fallen into disuse, but the fairs are still held. By a custom that prevails in the manor, if any man die seized of copyhold lands or tenements which descended to him in fee, his youngest son inherits; but if they were purchased by him, they fall to the eldest son.

The living is a vicarage, with the living of Stanion annexed, valued in the king’s books at £11. 17. 3¾.; net income, £236; patron, the Duke of Cleveland. The church has some Norman remains, amidst various alterations of later date; the tower is of very rude workmanship, and plastered.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Thrapston
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Weldon
  • Poor Law Union: Thrapston
  • Hundred: Corby
  • Province: Canterbury