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Morburn (xi cent.), Morborne (xiii cent.), Morbon (xvii cent.).
This small parish which is bounded on the east by the Ermine Street, and lies between Haddon on the north, and Folksworth on the south. It is a long strip in shape, marrowing from about one mile across at its western limit to about half a mile at its eastern. A road runs through the village from east to west, from which another road runs south to Folksworth.
The land lies mostly between 75 ft. and 100 ft. above sea-level, but rises to 200 ft at the south-west corner. It is liable to floods near Billing Brook. The soil and sub-soil are clay, and the chief crops grown are wheat, barley, beans and peas.
The village is in the centre of the parish and the church stands at the eastern end of it. South of it, and west of the Folksworth road, is Manor Farm where there is a late 17th century house and a fragmentary moat which probably surrounded the manor house of earlier date.
Two Tumuli stand on the west side of Ermine Street, about one and a quarter miles east of the church; one is circular and the other is rectangular.
In 1965 boundary changes expanded its area slightly with gains from Warmington in Northamptonshire.
Monumental inscriptions for this parish have not been recorded by the Huntingdonshire FHS. However, the Peterborough & District FHS have an interest in the parish.
Census information (1841 - 1891) is available from the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Morborne Parish is available as fiche set C90.
The full 1851 Census of Morborne Parish is available as fiche set C40.
A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Stilton sub-District of the Peterborough Registration District (RG12/1225) in which Morborne was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also been produced by the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C-15).
This above mentioned fiche are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
An index of surnames in the 1851 Census of the Peterborough Registration District (HO107/1747) in which Morborn was enumerated (Folios 33B - 36B), and which took place on 30th March 1851, has also been produced by the Peterborough & District FHS.
The Census is available from: Mr G Harbron, 7 Newby Close, Peterborough PE3 6PU, England, in either microfiche or A5 booklet form. Please state which version you want.
OS Grid Square TL 139915.
The church of All Saints consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle,
south transept, south aisle and west tower. the walls are partly of
coursed rubble and partly of pebble rubble with stone dressings, but the tower
is of red brick with stone buttresses. The roofs are covered with stone
slates.
The church is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, but the
earliest parts of the present building are the east wall of the nave of an
aisless church of the 12th century, together with two doorways - now reset in
the aisle walls. The whole church was rebuilt in the middle of the 13th century
with a somewhat larger chancel, two aisles to the nave, and a south transept
set at a curious angle with the rest. The chancel and the north side are rather
earlier than the south aisle and transept.
The tower was built around
1600, at which time new windows were inserted in the aisle walls and a north
porch added. The church was restored in 1864 when the east wall and part of the
south wall of the chancel were rebuilt. Again, in 1900-01, a further
restoration underpinned most of the walls and columns, the walls repaired and
the chancel roof renewed.
Baptisms: 1724-1792, 1792-1812.
Banns: 1755-1781, 1783-1787,
1797.
Marriages: 1730-1747, 1755-1783, 1783-1811, 1813-1838,
1838-1952.
Burials: 1724-1792, 1792-1812.
Bishop's Transcripts:
1604-5, 1608, 1612, 1618-19, 1626-7, 1660-9/1678, 1683-5, 1688, 1690-3,
1695, 1697-1701, 1706, 1709-10, 1712, 1715-16, 1718-40, 1742-4, 1746-51,
1753-8, 1760-6, 1769, 1771-4, 1781-2, 1784-6,
1788-1813/1813-24/1825-29/1831-7, 1839-53, 1855.
These are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
Morborne was originally in the Peterborough Registration District of
Northamptonshire from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it was transferred to
the Stilton sub-District of Huntingdonshire. It was later transferred
back to the Peterborough District.
From 1st April 1998, marriage
records were transferred to the Huntingdon Registry Office, but the
births and burial records were retained by Peterborough.
An old map of the parish of Morborne in the 19th century is available.
The Stilton Memorial Hall covers the men who fell from Stilton, Folksworth, Morbourne, Washingley, Denton and Caldecot and contains detailed information for World War 1 and World War 2.
Population in 1801 - 77.
Population in 1851 - 122.
Population
in 1901 - 68.
Population in 1951 - 54.
Population in 1971 -
51.
Population in 1991 - 43.
The parish of Morborne was in the Peterborough Union of Northamptonshire for Poor Law administration.
The parish of Morborne occupies 1205 acres of land.
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