Barrington, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BARRINGTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Wetherley, county of Cambridge, 6¾ miles (S. W. by S.) from Cambridge.

Additional information:

The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office and the Society of Genealogists

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
Barrington parish registers, atFHL Parish registers, 1570-1890

Bishop's transcripts for Barrington, 1599-1864 at FHL British Film 1818360

Non-Conformist Churches
Independent/Congregational at FHL Baptismal register for Barrington Independent Chapel, 1797-1837

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
Barrington on GENUKI