Barton, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BARTON (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Chesterton, hundred of Wetherley, county of Cambridge, 3½ miles WSW from Cambridge. Baptist is the only identified non-Church of England denomination in Barton.

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

Church of England: Barton, St. Peter


 * Parish registers for Barton, 1600-1851 are on FHL Fiche # 6360268 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.
 * Bishop Transcripts for Barton, 1600-1851 are on FHL Film # 1818362. This microfilm has been digitised.

Non-Conformist
Baptist is the only identified non-Church of England denomination in Barton. These records are located at the Cambridgeshire Archives.

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
Barton on GENUKI