Many documents are held at Northampton Record Office. These wills, marriage certificates, deeds, maps etc. have been gathered together from different sources such as large estates (e.g Allthorpe owned by the Spencer family) , solicitors and private collections. A large collection of over 400 items was gathered in Yelvertoft by the Elkins family and given to the Record Office. Some of the Elkins documents date back to the 17th century and tell us much of life in Yelvertoft and surrounding parishes as it was over the last four centuries. The early Elkins family were nonconformist and believed that the Bible should be in English and not in Latin. The family are remembered in Yelvertoft by the Close named after them.
			In the 1920,s the Northampton branch of the Place Names Society began researching the County and published books on their findings. We know from record's catalogued by the society that Yelvertoft was known at different times by different names seen below
			Celvrecot , Gelvrecote , Givertost 1086 ( Domesday Book )
			Gelvertoft (e) 1203
			Chelvertoft 1206
			Gyluertoft 1222
			Jelvertoft 1235
			Ylverestot 1247
			Yelvertoft 1276
			Zelvertoft 1314
			Jellerthopt 1321
			Helurtofte 1328
			Gilverstofte 1388
			Yellowtoft 1517
			Yellowtaft 1714
						Sheep and lambs on field named Peasehill on 1934 map ,now the Cricket Field . All Saints is in the background .