Bottisham, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes

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

Parish History
BOTTISHAM (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of Staine, county of Cambridge, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Newmarket. At Bottisham Lode is a place of worship for Particular Baptists.

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
Church of England: Bottisham, Holy Trinity:


 * Parish registers for Bottisham, 1561-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040371 Items 9-12 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.
 * Bishop Transcripts for Babraham, 1599-1879 are on FHL Film # 1818367 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.

The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office and the Society of Genealogists.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist

Non-Conformist information is available through Genuki.org.uk.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Bottisham on GENUKI