Cambridge All Saints, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
In 1887, John Bartholomew's described Cambridge like this:

Cambridge.-- parl. and mun. bor., and co. town of Cambridgeshire, on the river Cam, 56 miles N. of London by rail.

Cambridge All Saints; A parish in Cambridge and one of the 14 ancient parishes in Cambridge. The church of All Saints was reconstructed on a new site in 1864; is an ornamental edifice; and contains a monument, by Chantrey, to Henry Kirke White.

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 All Saints Parish, here's a list of all the other Cambridge Town ecclesiastical parishes and chapelries of the Church of England up to about 1870: Online Records
 * All Saints - 1538
 * Holy Sepulchre - 1567
 * Holy Trinity - 1564
 * St. Andrew the Great - 1635
 * St. Andrew the Less or Barnwell - 1753
 * St. Benedict - 1539
 * St. Botolph - 1564
 * St. Clement - 1560
 * St. Edward - 1558
 * St. Giles - 1585
 * St. Mary the Great - 1559
 * St. Mary the Less - 1557
 * 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)

Cambridge All Saints parish registers have been mostly transcribed and are displayed online at the following web sites and ranges of years:

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
This information is listed under 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 All Saints on GENUKI