Whittlesey St Andrew, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Whittlesey consisted historically of two parishes:


 * St Andrew
 * St Mary

England   Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
Whittlesey St. Andrew, is a parish in Whittlesey village, in the hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, it is 6 miles E by S from Peterborough. Near the village is the railway station of Ely and Peterborough. The post office is under Peterborough.The parishes of St. Mary and St. Andrew have lost their mutual boundaries, so they are now intermixed. The hamlet and chapelry of Coates, as well as the hamlet of Eastrea are here. There are several dissenting chapels in Whittlesey, which are Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Wesleyan Reformers, and Calvinistic Methodists.

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
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

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain