Whaddon, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WHADDON (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Armingford, county of Cambridge, 4¼ miles (N.) from Royston.

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
 parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:


 * Parish registers, Whaddon (Cambridgeshire), 1691-1887 at FHL
 * An indexed transcription of the parish registers of Whaddon : baptisms, 1599-1950; marriages, 1599-1950; burials, 1599-1948; banns, 1754-1950 at FHL
 * Bishop's transcripts for Whaddon, 1599-1860 have been digitised.

Non-Conformist Churches
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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
Whaddon on GENUKI