Eltisley, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Eltisley, is a parish in Caxton district, Cambridge; contiguous with Huntingdonshire, 2½ miles WNW of Caxton, and 5¾ miles N of Gamlingay railway station. The post town is Caxton, under Royston. There are chapels for Wesleyans 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
Eltisley parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Parish registers for Eltisley, 1653-1949 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts of Eltisley, Cambridgeshire, 1599-1867 at FHL. This microfilm has been digitised.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Primitive Methodist
 * 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
Eltisley on GENUKI