Melbourn, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes



Parish History
Melbourne, is a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Royston and county of Cambridge. The village is 1 mile S of Meldreth railway station, it is on boundaries with Hertfordshire and Essex, 3 miles NE of Royston, and 10 miles S W of Cambridge; the post office is under Royston. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists.



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

Census records
See Cambridgeshire Census

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