Duxford St John, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes

Guide to Duxford St John, Cambridgeshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Duxford consisted historically of two parishes:


 * St John
 * St Peter see Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Parish History
DUXFORD, comprising the parishes of St. Peter and St. John, in the union of Linton, hundred of Whittlesford, county of Cambridge, 9 miles (S. by E.) from Cambridge. The two churches are supposed to have been built about the end of the thirteenth century.

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
Parish registers for St. John's Church, Duxford, 1684-1883 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for St. John's Church, Duxford, 1599-1857 at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches
Independent/Congregational

Poor Law Unions
Linton Poor Law Union, Cambridgeshire

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
Duxford St John on GENUKI