Papworth St. Agnes, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Papworth St. Agnes (St. John the Baptist)

PAPWORTH ST. AGNES (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Caxton and Arrington, partly in the hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, but chiefly in that of Papworth, county of Cambridge, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Huntingdon. It lies in a valley, from which hills gradually rise on all sides to the height of about one hundred feet. The church, which is in Cambridgeshire,is supposed to have been built in the fifteenth 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
The Anglican church is St. John the Baptist.

Parish Registers are available from 1558-1878

Bishop Transcripts are available from 1599-1841 on FHL Film # 2358003 Items 5-6



Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformists and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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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.

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