Benwick, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes

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

Parish History
BENWICK, a chapelry, in the parish of Doddington, union and hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 8¼ miles (S. W.) from March.

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
Church of England: Benwick


 * Parish registers for Benwick, 1851-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040370 Items 5-12 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.
 * Bishop Transcripts for Benwick, 1851-1857 are on FHL Film # 1818366 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.

The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Methodist covered on Records Genuki.org.uk
 * Calvinistic Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Strict Baptist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * 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
Benwick on GENUKI