Littleport, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LITTLEPORT (St. George), a parish, in the union, hundred, and Isle, of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Ely;. There are places of worship for '''Baptists, Huntingtonians, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans. '''

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 of St. George Littleport, St. Matthew Littleport, St. John Little Ouse at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Littleport, 1599-1857 at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Calvinistic Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Littleport on GENUKI