Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WISBECH (St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 43 miles (N.) from Cambridge, and 94 (N. by E.) from London. The town is situated on both sides of the river now called the Nene. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Johnsonians, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, and Unitarians.

WISBECH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of Wisbech: containing, with the chapelry of Guyhirn.

Wisbech St Augustine became a parish in 1869.

Known as Wisbech or Wisbeach.

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
Wisbech St Peter and St Paul parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Copies of parish registers are also available through the Society of Genealogists and the Cambridge Archives.

Non-Conformist Churches
See Family History Catalogue for Wisbech films containing non-conformist records.


 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * General Baptist
 * Presbyterian
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends/Quake
 * Unitarian
 * 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
Wisbech on GENUKI

Wisbech St. Augustine on GENUKI

Wisbech St. Mary on GENUKI

Wisbech St. Peter and Paul on GENUKI