Lilbourne, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

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Lilbourne is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1573
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1706

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LILBOURNE, a village and a parish in the district of Rugby and county of Northampton.

The village stands on the river Avon, near the Market-Harborough and Rugby railway, near Watling-street, and near the meeting-point of Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, and Warwickshire, 4 miles ENE of Rugby; and has a station on the railway.

The parish comprises 1,920 acres. Post town, Rugby. Real property, £3,551. Pop., 292. Houses, 68. The property is chiefly divided among six.

The manor belongs to Corbet Smith, Esq. Extensive tumuli are in a field at the E end of the church. An engagement between the Danes and the Saxons is said to have been fought at Roundhill.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £155. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church consists of nave, a isles, and chancel, with low embattled tower; and is good.

There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £10 a year, and charities £27.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Northamptonshire, Lilbourne – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions at the Church of All Saints, Lilbourne
Author: Northamptonshire Family History Society

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

England, Northamptonshire, Lilbourne – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Lilbourne, 1706-1873
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Lilbourne (Northamptonshire)

England, Northamptonshire, Lilbourne, parish registers, 1573-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Lilbourne (Northamptonshire); Northampton Record Office (Northamptonshire)

Lilbourne, Northamptonshire, England, bishops transcripts 1706-1812 [and] pedigree [of] Sarah Ann Tomalin, charts 1-13
Author: Spencer, Sidnee D. (Sidnee Day), 1938-; Church of England. Parish Church of Lilbourne (Northamptonshire)

Parish registers for Lilbourne, 1573-1943
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Lilbourne (Northamptonshire)

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Northamptonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Rugby
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Northampton
  • Diocese: Peterborough
  • Rural Deanery: Haddon
  • Poor Law Union: Rugby
  • Hundred: Guilsborough
  • Province: Canterbury