Duxford St John, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Duxford consisted historically of two parishes:


 * St John
 * St Peter see Duxford, Cambridgeshire

England   Cambridgeshire

Parish History
Duxford St John is a redundant church in the village and civil parish of Duxford. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church stands on the junction of St John's Street and Green Street.

Inside the church is a variety of wall decorations, from medieval wall paintings, to graffiti from later periods, including the Second World War.

The north chapel was used as a schoolroom from the middle of the 17th century until about 1847. In 1874 the parish was united with the neighbouring parish of St Peter's, and St John's became derelict. The church was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust in 1979. The tower and the wall paintings were restored in 1985.

Duxford is synonymous with the airfield previously RAF Duxford. The airfield is now owned jointly by the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and Cambridgeshire County Council and it is the site of the Imperial War Museum Duxford and the American Air Museum, which is conveniently located there, quite near to the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial between Madingley and Coton, west of Cambridge City and only 9 mi (14 km) north of Duxford.

The airfield was built in the First World War and was used by the Cambridge University Air Squadron in the 1930's. During the Second World War it became home to Douglas Bader's 310 Squadron to form part of Air Vice Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory's "Big Wing" combined squadrons of fighters to concentrate on Luftwaffe bomber formations.

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
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Linton Poor Law Union, Cambridgeshire

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

Web sites
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