Caxton, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire   Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
Caxton, is a parish, a subdistrict, and a district in Cambridgeshire. The town is 3½ miles NNW of North Road railway station, and 9½ miles W of Cambridge; and has a post office under Royston. Other places of worship in 1851 were Independents, Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, and '''Primitive 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

Census records


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
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