Castor, Northamptonshire (Feb 08 Red)
Looking for information regarding the family of George Jakes b.1852 Ailsworth. Had eleven siblings and lived in Belton, East Norton and Castor. Any information is appreciated.

rowletts (Jul 06 Red)
seeking info on the rowletts . elizabeth rowlett born ailsworth in 1865.

A Civil Parish (Jan 04 Red)
Ailsworth or Ailesworth, as I was brought up to spell it, has no church. It has a Methodist chapel dating back to around 1860. My family worshiped there for nearly all of the 20th Century. As time has changed the village has changed its character.Gone are the days of cattle walking down the street to be grazed along the side of the Willow Row. Gone also,the great tithe barns that that dominated Main Street. Ailsworth adjoins Castor, the two villages live in harmony but people born in Ailsworth are still proud of being different to those who were born in Castor. I was born in Ailesworth in 1946 in a house which had stood for around 200 years My family and many other families in both Castor and Ailesworth can trace their ancestors back for that same period of time. Many of us, of course, find we are inter- related. Many of our ancestors are there in the church yard lying side by side. The trouble with so many relations was that you didn't know if were related, especially when you was having a good moan about someone. Ailsworth when I lived there was a "civil" parish in more ways than one.