Peterborough (St. John the Baptiste), Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
Peterborough, is a city, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Northamptonshire. The city is on the river Nen, at the boundary with Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire, and at a convergence of railways from the N, the E, the S, and the W. The parish includes the hamlets of Eastfield, Newark, Dogsthorpe, and Longthorpe; there are three ecclesiastical sections St. John, St. Mark, and St. Mary. There are two chapels for Independents, three for Baptists three for Methodists, and one for Roman Catholics.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

England Jurisdictions 1851 Vision of Britain