Bottisham, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire   Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
BOTTISHAM (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of Staine, county of Cambridge, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Newmarket; A small priory of Augustine canons, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and St. Nicholas, was founded at Anglesey, in the parish, by Henry I.

Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 309-314. Date accessed: 26 April 2012.

Bottisham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire. Other places in the parish include: Six Miles Bottom, Lode, and Longmeadow. Sites that provide additional details on the history of this parish are:


 * Genuki.org.uk
 * Cambridges Churches
 * Cambridge History

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Church of England: Bottisham, Holy Trinity:


 * Parish records begin in 1561
 * Bishop Transcripts begin in 1599

&gt;Parish registers for Bottisham, 1561-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040371 Items 9-12 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center. &gt;Bishop Transcripts for Babraham, 1599-1879 are on FHL Film # 1818367 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center. The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office and the Society of Genealogists.

Non-Conformist information is available through Genuki.org.uk.

Census records


Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cambridgeshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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