Cambridge St Mary the Great, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Guide to Cambridge St Mary the Great, Cambridgeshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Cambridge, St Mary the Great. A parish in Cambridge and one of the 14 parishes in Cambridge. The church of St. Mary the Great is the University church; was built in 1478-1519; has a conspicuous tower of 1593-1608.

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
Besides St Mary the Great Parish, here's a list of all the other Cambridge Town ecclesiastical parishes and chapelries of the Church of England up to about 1870:
 * St. Mary the Great - 1559
 * All Saints - 1538
 * Holy Sepulchre - 1567
 * Holy Trinity - 1564
 * St. Andrew the Less - 1557
 * St. Andrew the Great - 1635
 * St. Andrew the Less or Barnwell - 1753
 * St. Benedict - 1539
 * St. Botolph - 1564
 * St. Clement - 1560
 * St. Edward King & Martyr - 1558
 * St. Giles - 1585
 * St. Michael - 1538
 * St. Peter - 1586
 * Christ Church Chapelry - 1839
 * St. Barnabas - 1869
 * St. John Mission Church 1874
 * St. Matthew - 1866
 * St. Paul's Chapelry - 1845 (see also St Andrew the Less)

St Mary the Great Parish registers and those registers of all of its contiguous ecclesiastical parishes and smaller chapelries lying within Cambridge Township boundaries have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the web sites cited below.

Online Records
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Non Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Particular Baptist
 * Independent
 * Presbyterian
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints

Census records
Information on these records is available on the Wiki page for Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

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

Websites
Cambridge St Mary the Great on GENUKI