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Vasquez109
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Im trying to find out something about the history of St. Mary the Virgin at Brampton Ash. Normally Wikipedia is my first port of call, but sadly there is no mention of it.
I had to add its name to the Brampton Ash page on Wikipedia. Google will only tell me the current Rector or Vicar.
Just wondering if anyone knows anything about it, or can point me in the right direction.
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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behindthefrogs
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Brampton Ash church is as you say a conundrum. It certainly goes back to the 1760s and warranted a rector. It seems to go back to 1580 and is sometimes referred to as just Brampton.
http://ccedb.cch.kcl.ac.uk/jsp/locations/DisplayLocation.jsp?locKey=9666
However while it is an imposing church with an organ which is referenced in a number of specialist works the population of the parish never seems to have been more than 100. All the surrounding parishes are also very old and so it is not a subdivision. Today it appears to have been merged with Desborough but probably is still a seperate parish.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Christopher
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The Church bells were given a full overhaul and restoration including rehanging about nine years ago.
The last time the bells were rehung was in 1895.
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Vasquez109
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Thanks for that. Very interesting!
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Northamptonshire - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs
Swansea (Morriston) - Thomas, Williams
Derbyshire - Harlow
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London (Bethnal Green/Islington) - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Collecott, Webb, Curgenven, Trevarton, Blamey, Dunn
Gloucestershire - Harper
County Durham - Proud, Duke
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