Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SWAFFHAM BULBECK (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of Staine, county of Cambridge, 6 miles W 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
Swaffham Bulbeck parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire: baptisms, 1558-1945; marriages, 1558-1643/4, 1647-1953; banns, 1757-1813; 1823-1887; burials, 1599-1887; burials in cemetery, 1886-1982 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Swaffham-Bulbeck, 1599-1857 at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 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
Swaffham Bulbeck on GENUKI