Collingtree Genealogical Records
Collingtree Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Digital images of baptism registers, searchable by a name index. They essentially record births, but may also include places of residence and occupations.
Digital images of baptism registers, searchable by a name index, essentially recording births, but may also include places of residence and occupations.
An index to and images of close to 800,000 baptism records from the Church of England. The records were typically made shortly after a child's birth and consist of the child's name, date of baptism, parents' names, residence, father's occupation and occasionally other details.
A collection of indexes and transcripts of birth and baptism records that cover over 250 million people. Includes digital images of many records.
Collingtree Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Marriage records from people who married at the church between 1754 and 1775.
Abstracts of documents grating couples a right to marry in church by licences issued by Lincoln Diocese. The abstracts list name, condition, occupation, residence, age and other details.
Abstracts of marriage licences granted by the Vicar-General in London. These licences could be used to marry in any church in the Province of Canterbury.
An index to over 95,000 marriages in around 500 Northamptonshire parishes.
Collingtree Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Digital images of burial registers, searchable by a name index. They record the date someone was buried, their age & residence.
Digital images of burial registers, searchable by a name index. Lists the deceased's name, residence and age. Some records may contain the names of relations, cause of death and more.
An index to and images of registers recording around 500,000 burials. They typically list name, age, date of burial, residence; but may occasionally include other details.
An index to over 400,000 burials in 300 Northamptonshire parishes.
Collingtree Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
The 1901 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
The 1891 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
The 1881 census provides details on an individual's age, residence and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows for searches on multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
Newspapers Covering Collingtree
A local newspaper including news from the Northampton district, business notices, family announcements, legal & governmental proceedings, advertisements and more.
A record of births, marriages, deaths, legal, political, organisation and other news from the Northamptonshire area. Original pages of the newspaper can be viewed and located by a full text search.
A record of births, marriages, deaths, legal, political, organisation and other news from the Huntingdon, Bedford and Peterborough vicinity. Original pages of the newspaper can be viewed and located by a full text search.
A regional newspaper recording events in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire. It includes family announcements, reports on legal proceedings and business notices & advertisements.
A London newspaper that later became The Sun.
Collingtree Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
Abstracts of early wills, naming legates etc., from the Diocese of Lincoln, covering parts of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties.
Index of wills proved in the Consistory Court of Lincoln. Provides a reference which can be used to locate records.
A list of wills proved by the Consistory Court of Lincoln.
An index to records administering deceased's estates in the Diocese of Lincoln.
Collingtree Immigration & Travel Records
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Details on thousands of 17th century British immigrants to the U.S., detailing their origins and nature of their immigration.
Collingtree Military Records
A list of names found on World War One monuments in Northamptonshire, with some service details.
A list of names found on World War Two monuments in Northamptonshire, with some service details.
A searchable list of over 100,000 British Army POWs. Records contains details on the captured, their military career and where they were held prisoner.
Details on around 165,000 men serving in the British Army, Navy and Air Force who were held as prisoners during WWII.
Index and original images of over 5 million medal index cards for British soldiers It can be searched by individual's name, Coprs, Unit and Regiment. Due to the loss of many WWI service records, this is the most complete source for British WWI soldiers
Collingtree Court & Legal Records
Poll books for multiple years, searchable by a name index. They record for whom those with the right to vote voted for.
An index to names and places mentioned in act books of the Province of Canterbury. It records various licences and conferments, such as marriage and physician licences.
Records of over 300,000 prisoners held by quarter sessions in England & Wales. Records may contain age, occupation, criminal history, offence and trial proceedings.
Over 175,000 records detailing prisoner's alleged offences and the outcome of their trial. Contains genealogical information.
Digital images of ledgers recording those registered to vote, searchable by an index of 220 million names. Entries list name, address, qualification to vote, description of property and sometimes age and occupation.
Collingtree Taxation Records
Details of over 22,000 householder and the hearths in their house.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
An index linked to original images of registers recording apprenticeship indentures. Details are given on the trade and nature of apprenticeship. Many records list the parents of the apprentice.
A compilation of records from the Court of the Exchequer primarily dealing with taxes and land. These records are in Latin.
Collingtree Land & Property Records
Poll books for multiple years, searchable by a name index. They record for whom those with the right to vote voted for.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
This vital collection details almost 1.2 million properties eligible for land tax. Records include the name of the landowner, occupier, amount assessed and sometimes the name and/or description of the property. It is a useful starting point for locating relevant estate records and establishing the succession of tenancies and freehold. Most records cover 1798, but some extend up to 1811.
Poll books record the names of voters and the direction of their vote. Until 1872 only landholders could vote, so not everyone will be listed. Useful for discerning an ancestor's political leanings and landholdings. The collection is supplemented with other records relating to the vote.
Abstracts of records detailing the estates and families of deceased tenants from the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
Collingtree Directories & Gazetteers
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
A directory of settlements in Northamptonshire detailing their history, agriculture, topography, economy and leading commercial, professional and private residents.
Collingtree Cemeteries
Photographs and descriptions of Northamptonshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Profiles of several hundred mausolea found in the British Isles.
Several thousand transcribed memorials remembering those connected with the nautical occupations.
Collingtree Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Collingtree Histories & Books
Photographs and images of churches in Northamptonshire.
An index of windmills in the county, with brief notes and some photographs.
A growing database including millions of photographs of the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Ireland catalogued by latitude & longitude and OS grid reference.
Ariel photographs of the British Isles. Browsable by location.
Over 19,000 postcards depicting places in the UK & Ireland.
Collingtree School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Collingtree Occupation & Business Records
Profiles of coal and metal mines in the Midlands region of England.
A list of Baptist churches in the county with the name of their pastor.
A non-exhaustive list of Baptist churches and their ministers in the counties.
Short histories of former public houses, with photographs and lists of owners or operators.
An index to and images of registers recording over 3.7 million trade union members.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Collingtree
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Collingtree Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
Photographs and descriptions of Northamptonshire's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
Over 600 pedigrees for English and Welsh families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
The most comprehensive listing of Knights of the Crown, listing details where known to the order, date, place and reason for elevation.
Collingtree Church Records
Records relating to the administration of Lincoln Diocese. Includes act books and bishop's registers.
Extracts from the records of the Diocese of Lincoln, including visitations, subsidy rolls, clergy lists, records relating to papists and non-conformists etc.
Records relating to the administration of Lincoln Diocese.
Records relating to the administration of Lincoln Diocese.
Records relating to the administration of Lincoln Diocese.
Biographical Directories Covering Collingtree
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
A directory containing lengthy biographies of noted British figures. The work took over two decades to compile. Biographies can be searched by name and are linked to images of the original publication.
Collingtree Maps
Digital images of maps covering the county.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Maps of parishes in England, Scotland and Wales. They are useful in determining which parish records may be relevant to your research.
Collingtree Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
The village of Collingtree, near the western extremity of this hundred, was the birth-place of the Rev. William Wood, F. L. S. who was born on the 29th of May, 1745, and died at Leeds on the 1st of April, 1808 Biography is never more usefully or laudably employed, than in narrating the memoirs of those persons, who by pre-eminence of genius have advanced themselves from an humble birth to honourable celebrity. Whilst the writer is performing this task, he is administering to the best feelings of the human heart, and is laying before the: world such an example as cannot fail to rouse emulation and gratify benevolence. This is evinced in the life of Mr. Wood, who manifested powerful talents, and an amiable disposition. Under the tuition of the Rev; Drs. Savage, Kippis, and Rees, he acquired a classical education, and what is more valuable, a habit of philosophizing and thinking. According to an intelligent biographer, he "soon distinguished himself by his love of knowledge, his ardour in the pursuit of it, and his promptness and facility in acquiring it. "As a public character, Mr. Wood is chiefly known as the writer of various articles in Dr. Rees’s Cyclopaedia; and by several sermons, the latter of which are distinguished by a simplicity, perspicuity, and persuasiveness of eloquence, which could not fail to engage the heart, and improve the head of those who heard them. As a preacher he was much, admired by his congregation; and was also peculiarly esteemed by a large circle of immediate friends, and distant correspondents. In his professional duty of a Christian minister he was first engaged at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, whence he removed to Ipswich; and when Dr. Priestley was employed as librarian to the Marquis of Lansdown, Mr. Wood was deemed a proper person to fill that eminent man’s pulpit. This was at once honourable to Mr. Wood, and proved equally so to the discriminating choice of the Unitarian congregation of Leeds; as minister of whom he continued from 1773 to the lamented period of his death, "with uninterrupted harmony and mutual regard!" "It appears that the subject of this memoir was no ordinary man. His mind was of no common character; his intellectual powers of the first order; his faculties were masculine and vigorous; his understanding was comprehensive, clear, and enlightened; his imagination vivid and powerful; his judgment solid and profound." The mind thus formed, and thus disposed, must be calculated to effect great and good purposes; and such appears to have been the constant object of Mr. Wood’s life and actions. In promulgating enlightened and liberal principles respecting politics and theological doctrines, he was strenuous and active; for he despised bigotry in one, and party intrigue in the other. The life of such a man cannot be too often related to the listening world, as it may excite emulation in the good heart, and produce contrition in that prone to vice.
COLLINGTREE is a parish on the road from Northampton to Buckingham, 3 ½ miles south from Northampton, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Wymersley, union of Hardingstone, county court district and petty sessional division of Northampton, rural deanery of Preston (first portion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The church of St. Columba is a building of stone, of early date, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: the chancel retains a piscina, and a brass inscribed to Horatio, a younger son of Colonel Henry Woodhouse, of the ancient family of Woodhouse of Waxham in Norfolk, and rector of this place nearly 37 years, who died 27th May, 1679: a new organ was erected in 1891, and in 1891 the church was restored; a stained east window, erected in memory of the Iate Pickering Phipps esq. M.P., J.P. d. 1890; and a clock added, the whole cost being defrayed by members of the Phipps family: there are sittings for 120 persons. The register dates from the year 1787. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £350, including 240 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Phipps, and held since 1855 by the Rev. George Benjamin Hill, of St. Bees, who resides at 75 Kingston road, Oxford; the Rev. Walter Seggins Pratt has been curate in charge since 1889. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. A reading room, the property of Mrs. Phipps, is kindly lent for the use of the parish. Collingtree Grange is the residence of Mrs. Phipps. The trustees of the late P. Phipps esq. M.P. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and light loam; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley and grass. The area is 688 acres; rateable value, £1,345; the population in 1891 was 224.
National School (mixed), built in 1861 by the Rev. G. B. Hill, and enlarged by Miss Phipps, for 70 children; average attendance, 50.
Most Common Surnames in Collingtree
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Wymersley Hundred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cockerill | 35 | 1:7 | 18.13% | 267 |
| 2 | Williams | 13 | 1:20 | 2.02% | 44 |
| 3 | Harris | 12 | 1:21 | 1.02% | 11 |
| 3 | Clarke | 12 | 1:21 | 0.71% | 4 |
| 5 | Sykes | 10 | 1:26 | 5.41% | 283 |
| 5 | Warwick | 10 | 1:26 | 3.89% | 182 |
| 7 | Hales | 8 | 1:32 | 4.35% | 288 |
| 8 | Newman | 7 | 1:37 | 1.96% | 117 |
| 8 | Gammage | 7 | 1:37 | 4.22% | 327 |
| 8 | Garfirth | 7 | 1:37 | 31.82% | 1,818 |
| 11 | Johnson | 6 | 1:43 | 0.36% | 6 |
| 11 | Middleton | 6 | 1:43 | 1.80% | 133 |
| 11 | Hickson | 6 | 1:43 | 31.58% | 1,994 |
| 11 | Scriven | 6 | 1:43 | 24.00% | 1,685 |
| 15 | Evans | 5 | 1:51 | 1.46% | 123 |
| 15 | Cole | 5 | 1:51 | 1.60% | 140 |
| 15 | Hickman | 5 | 1:51 | 2.34% | 233 |
| 15 | Phipps | 5 | 1:51 | 4.59% | 539 |
| 15 | Westley | 5 | 1:51 | 1.63% | 144 |
| 20 | Graty | 4 | 1:64 | 100.00% | 5,584 |
| 20 | Twiselton | 4 | 1:64 | 11.11% | 1,296 |
| 22 | Smith | 3 | 1:86 | 0.05% | 1 |
| 22 | Bennett | 3 | 1:86 | 0.95% | 139 |
| 22 | Foster | 3 | 1:86 | 0.47% | 46 |
| 22 | Slater | 3 | 1:86 | 1.88% | 345 |
| 22 | Rigby | 3 | 1:86 | 2.56% | 513 |
| 22 | Reeve | 3 | 1:86 | 1.03% | 157 |
| 22 | Stapleton | 3 | 1:86 | 2.59% | 516 |
| 22 | Wingrave | 3 | 1:86 | 23.08% | 2,523 |
| 30 | Hill | 2 | 1:129 | 0.25% | 25 |
| 30 | Fletcher | 2 | 1:129 | 1.18% | 318 |
| 30 | Pearson | 2 | 1:129 | 0.59% | 126 |
| 30 | Freeman | 2 | 1:129 | 0.26% | 29 |
| 30 | Barton | 2 | 1:129 | 1.52% | 449 |
| 30 | Mann | 2 | 1:129 | 1.23% | 337 |
| 30 | Lamb | 2 | 1:129 | 2.44% | 714 |
| 30 | Bull | 2 | 1:129 | 0.44% | 78 |
| 30 | Dickens | 2 | 1:129 | 0.40% | 65 |
| 30 | Whitbread | 2 | 1:129 | 2.86% | 795 |
| 30 | Sturges | 2 | 1:129 | 2.44% | 714 |
| 30 | Croxford | 2 | 1:129 | 40.00% | 4,911 |
| 30 | Dunckley | 2 | 1:129 | 3.70% | 973 |
| 30 | Labrum | 2 | 1:129 | 1.79% | 526 |
| 44 | Jones | 1 | 1:257 | 0.07% | 7 |
| 44 | Taylor | 1 | 1:257 | 0.10% | 16 |
| 44 | Wilson | 1 | 1:257 | 0.09% | 14 |
| 44 | Wood | 1 | 1:257 | 0.18% | 58 |
| 44 | Scott | 1 | 1:257 | 0.37% | 174 |
| 44 | Cooper | 1 | 1:257 | 0.12% | 23 |
| 44 | Carter | 1 | 1:257 | 0.19% | 59 |
| 44 | Mills | 1 | 1:257 | 0.27% | 107 |
| 44 | West | 1 | 1:257 | 0.16% | 48 |
| 44 | Ball | 1 | 1:257 | 0.24% | 90 |
| 44 | Burgess | 1 | 1:257 | 0.46% | 225 |
| 44 | Burrows | 1 | 1:257 | 0.53% | 277 |
| 44 | Goodman | 1 | 1:257 | 0.20% | 63 |
| 44 | Vickers | 1 | 1:257 | 0.85% | 508 |
| 44 | Whiting | 1 | 1:257 | 0.44% | 211 |
| 44 | Blackwell | 1 | 1:257 | 0.43% | 203 |
| 44 | Crowe | 1 | 1:257 | 16.67% | 4,349 |
| 44 | Snape | 1 | 1:257 | 6.25% | 2,225 |
| 44 | Beesley | 1 | 1:257 | 0.90% | 532 |
| 44 | Dunkley | 1 | 1:257 | 0.12% | 21 |
| 44 | Eames | 1 | 1:257 | 1.89% | 985 |
| 44 | Waterfield | 1 | 1:257 | 1.64% | 894 |
| 44 | Fern | 1 | 1:257 | 12.50% | 3,499 |
| 44 | Buswell | 1 | 1:257 | 0.41% | 192 |
| 44 | Goffin | 1 | 1:257 | 100.00% | 8,662 |
| 44 | Baseley | 1 | 1:257 | 0.76% | 449 |