Cambridge St Redegund, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
Cambridge St Redegund. The priory of St. Radegund was a convent originally. There were plans to turn it into a college. It was dissolved in 1496 due to its close proximity to the University of Cambridge. It set the foundation for the College of St. Mary the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Radegund the Virgin.

St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge was a Benedictine nunnery. Radegund was a 6th-century Frankish princess, who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. It was founded before 1144 (probably in the late 1130s) and dissolved in 1496 by the initiative of John Alcock, Bishop of 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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

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