Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
FOULMIRE, or Fulmer (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Thriplow, county of Cambridge, 5½ miles NE from Royston. There is a place of worship for a congregation of Independents.

Known as Fowlmere, Foulmire, or Fulmer.

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

Parish register transcripts, 1561-1845 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for the parish church of Foulmire, 1600-1869 at FHL. This microfilm has been digitised.

Non-Conformist Churches

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

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
Fowlmere on GENUKI