| Abbreviation | Source |
| A2A | Access to Archives |
| Admin Northampton | Administrations of the Archdeaconry of Northampton 1677-1830 |
| Alumni Cantab | Alumni Cantabriensis |
| Annals Evangelical | Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the County of Essex |
| Balliol | Register of Balliol College |
| BDHT | Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, by Lance Day Ian McNeil. ISBN 9780415193993 |
| Biography | Biography |
| Birth Cert | Birth Certificate |
| Bishop Percy's Folio | Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances |
| BMD | England & Wales Birth Marriage and Death Indexes |
| Boyds Inhabitants | Boyds Inhabitants of London and Family Units |
| Bp Transcripts Desb | Bishop's Transcripts, Desborough |
| Britannica | Britannica Encylopaedia |
| British Army | British Army Pension Records |
| Buckingham History | History and Antiquities of the Town, Hundred, and Deanery of Buckingham by Browne Willis, 1755 |
| Burial | Derived from Burial Record |
| Census | England & Wales Census |
| Chelsea Pen | Chelsea Pensioners' British Army Service Records |
| Child's Marriage Certificate | Child's Marriage Certificate |
| Christ's College | Biographical Register of Christ's College 1505-1905, and of the earlier foundation, God's House 1448-1505, v1 1448-1665, CUP |
| Congregational Register | Desborough Congregational Church Register |
| Contact | Personal Contact |
| Corpus Christi | Corpus Christi Register of Members |
| CWGC | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
| Deaf-Dumb web | http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WAR/deloyd/deafanddumb.html |
| Death Cert | Death Certificate |
| Died Great War | Soldiers Died in the Great War database |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| Est from Spouse | Estimated from spouse's death or burial record |
| Est. from census | Estimated from census information |
| Est. from child | Estimated from birth of first known child |
| Est. from death | Estimated from age in BMD death record |
| Est. from marriage | Estimated from date of marriage |
| GWR Shareholder | GWR Shareholder Entry |
| History of St Giles | A History of St Giles' Church Desborough Northamptonshire, revised 2007 |
| IGI | International Genealogical Index |
| Ind. Records | Independent Church Records |
| Kelly Northants 1910 | Kelly's Directory for Northamptonshire 1910 |
| Kelly Northants 1914 | Kelly's Directory for Northamptonshire 1914 |
| Maint. Order | Maintenance orders (Bastardy) |
| Methodist Rec. | Methodist Church Records |
| MI | Monumental Inscription, photograph available |
| Mrg Cert | Marriage Certificate |
| NBI | National Burial Index |
| Nhants Clergy | Northamptonshire and Rutland Clergy |
| NN&Q | Northamptonshire Notes & Queries, an illustrated quarterly journal, devoted to The Antiquities, Family History, Traditions, Parochial Records, Folk-Lore, Quaint Customs, &c., of the County |
| Notes & Queries | Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc. |
| NSW BMD | New South Wales Births Marriages and Deaths |
| Ontario Marr | Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924 |
| Parish Reg | Parish Register |
| Parish Reg Deriv | Derived from other Parish Register informaton |
| Phil. Passengers | Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1945, M425_79 |
| Pigot's London 1839 | Pigot's Directory of London and the Suburbs 1839 |
| Rec. Off. Trans. | Northamptonshire Record Office Transcript of Parish Baptism Records |
| Rowell Ind Chapel Reg | Register of Births and Baptisms, Rowell Independent Chapel, Rothwell, Northamptonshire from 1798 to 1837 |
| The Railway Workers | The Railway Workers 1840-1970 by Frank McKenna. Faber 1980 0571115632 |
| Times | The Times Newspaper |
| US Census | US Census |
| Venn | Venn Alumni Cantabrigienses |
| Venn Db | Venn Database |
| Visitation | The Visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618-19 |
| Website | Website |
| Wesleyan Reg | Wesleyan Register |
| Will | Last Will & Testament |
| WW1 Army | British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 |
| WW1 Navy | Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War, 1914-1924 |
