Benwick, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire   Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
BENWICK, a chapelry, in the parish of Doddington, union and hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 8¼ miles (S. W.) from March.

Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 210-214. Date accessed: 26 April 2012.

Benwick is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire, created in 1847 from the chapelry in Doddington Ancient Parish. 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: Benwick


 * Parish records begin in 1851
 * Bishop Transcripts begin in 1851

&gt;Parish registers for Benwick, 1851-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040370 Items 5-12 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center. &gt;Bishop Transcripts for Benwick, 1851-1857 are on FHL Film # 1818366 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.

The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office

Non-Conformist


 * Methodist covered on Records 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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