Faxton, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

Faxton is a chapelry of Lamport Ancient Parish in Northamptonshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1569
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FAXTON, a chapelry in Lamport parish, Northampton; 2 miles E of Lamport r. station, and 4½ SSW of Rothwell. Post town, Lamport, under Northampton.

Acres, with Mawsley, 2,120. Pop., exclusive of Mawsley, 79; inclusive, 90. Houses, exc., 17; inc., 19. It was returned as a parish in 1831, and previous decades; as a chapelry belonging to Lamport, in 1841; as a chapelry or parish, inclusive of Mawsley, in 1851; and as a parish, exclusive of Mawsley, in 1861.

It appears ecclesiastically not to have any status, but to be considered as part of Lamport.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Faxton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at the Church of St. Andrew Old and the deserted churchyard at Faxton
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

England, Northamptonshire, Faxton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Faxton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Northamptonshire, Faxton – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Faxton, 1706-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Faxton (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Faxton, parish registers, 1578-1812
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Faxton (Northamptonshire); Northamptonshire Record Office

Marriages at Faxton, 1570-1837
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Faxton (Northamptonshire); Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913; Faithfull, R. C. (Robert Colquhoun); Longdon, Henry Isham

Parish registers for Faxton, 1569-1920
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Faxton (Northamptonshire)

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Brixworth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Rothwell
  • Poor Law Union: Brixworth
  • Hundred: Orlingbury
  • Province: Canterbury