Wentworth, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WENTWORTH, or Wingford, a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 4½ miles WSW from Ely.

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:

An indexed transcription of the parish registers ofWentworth : baptisms, 1600-1950; marriages, 1600-1950; banns, 1761-1950; burials, 1606-1950 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Wentworth, 1600-1884 have been digitised.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

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
Wentworth on GENUKI