Snailwell, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SNAILWELL (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of Staploe, county of Cambridge, 2¾ miles N from Newmarket.

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

Snailwell, Cambridgeshire at FHL:baptisms, 1629-1746, 1752-1901; marriages, 1629-1901; banns, 1754-1814; burials, 1629-1903

Bishop's transcripts for Snailwell, 1849 have been digitised.

Non-Conformist Churches
None
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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
Snailwell on GENUKI