Chatteris, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Parishes

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

Parish History
Chatteris, is a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of North Witchford, Cambridge. The town is on the west border of the isle of Ely, near the Cambridge and Wisbeach railway, it is 10½ miles NNE of St. Ives; and has a station on the railway, a post office under March. There are seven chapels for Independents, Baptists, Methodists. and Quakers.

CHATTERIS (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish ,in the union and hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 8¾ miles (E. by N.) from Ramsey. There are places of worship for Particular Baptists and Wesleyans.

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
ChatterisChurch records at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Calvinist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Countess of Huntingdon Methodis
 * General Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

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
Chatteris on GENUKI