Ashley cum Silverley, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
ASHLEY cum Silverley (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of Cheveley, county of Cambridge, 3¼ miles (E. by S.) from Newmarket.

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
Mircorfilm copies of these records are available from the Family History Library or your local Family History Center.

Parish registers for Ashley-cum-Silverley, 1630-1876: Film # 1040364 Items 3-13

Copies of these registers are also available at the Cambridge Record Office, the Society of Genealogist.

Boyds Marriage Index covers 1538-1837 and is available on British Origins and findmypast.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

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
Ashley on GENUKI