Desborough Study
A study of its people through the ages
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Introduction
The Desborough Study started when I followed up a connection in my wider family tree and became
fascinated by the numbers of people recorded there who shared the Coe, Marlow and Panter surnames. I was
curious to see whether each group of families traced back to common ancestors and where the families came
from. I'm still a long way off finding the answers, but the process continues to be fascinating.
The study is intended to cover every individual who was present, at some time, in
Desborough. For all those who were born in Desborough I am trying to follow up all their
ancestors and descendents (up to roughly the end of the nineteenth century). For people
who lived in Desborough but were not born there I am generally restricting the data to
themselves, their parents and spouse(s), though if more than one member of a family lived
in Desborough I try to include all of their siblings so that relationships are clearer.
Desborough in the Nineteenth Century
Description:- a page of general notes drawn from a number of nineteenth century directories,
including location (with a map), population figures, employment, church and
chapel, schools, and traders.
Census transcriptions
I've completed transcriptions of the
1841,
1851,
1861,
1871,
1881 and 1891 censuses.
Except for the later censuses, each one is on a single page, making it easier to see families in
context with their neighbours.
The majority of individuals in the transcribed censuses now have links that allow you to pull up a page
showing the full details of the households containing that person in all the available transcriptions.
The display is being enhanced with information from other sources to show dates of
birth, baptism, marriage, death, burial; maiden names of wives; location at the time of censuses when not living in Desborough.
Surnames and descendant trees
The Surnames index enables you to
extract descendant trees for all the individuals I've picked up so far who
were associated with Desborough.
The Wives and Widows index helps you locate a woman
where you don't know her maiden name.
Families
For each of the transcribed censuses you can see a list of surnames of
all the head of households. The lists are presented in two columns: one
sorted by name, the other sorted by number of households. Click on a surname to see an extract of all the
households in that censuses headed by that surname.
Christian Names
A full list of all the Christian names present in the parish.
Occupations
Silk weaving and
lace making were very important to
Desborough in the middle of the nineteenth century, though they almost died out
between 1861 and 1871. Check out the following
links to see full lists of occupations from the censuses, showing how many
people were involved in them, and how this changed over the decades.
The Desborough Farmers
page came out of looking at early directories for
Northamptonshire. It follows farmers listed in the directories
through all the censuses, but does not limit its information to Desborough events, so it gives
a different and wider view on the families involved.
Sources
IGI batch numbers
