Fulbourn St Vigor, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
FULBOURN, a district, in the union of Chesterton, hundred of Flendish, county of Cambridge, 5 miles ESE from Cambridge; comprising the parishes of All Saints and St. Vigors. Here is a place of worship for Independents.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Copies of parish registers are also available through the Society of Genealogists and the Cambridge Archives.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist

Genealogy From Periodicals
Edwards, David. Norfolk Patients Who Died at Cambridgeshire County Asylum, Fulbourn. Mr Edwards has extracted a list of 16 patents from the above named Asylum, who were originally from Norfolk, mainly Kings Lynn, South Lynn, Thetfore and Yarmouth. The list gives the Surname, Forename, where from, Date admitted and date died, and where buried. He advises the Asylum Cemetery register for 1862-1900 is missing, so the burial place cannot be confirmed. Article in The Norfolk Ancestor, new series, vol. 8, pt 2, page 75. Family History Library Ref. 942.61 B2j new ser. v.8, pt.2 (June 2011)

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
Fulbourn St Vigor on GENUKI