St Neots, Huntingdonshire Genealogy

England   Huntingdonshire  Huntingdonshire Parishes

Parish History
St. Neots, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Huntingdonshire. The town is on the river Ouse, and on the boundary with Bedfordshire, it is ¾ of a mile W of the Great Northern railway, and 8½ miles SSW of Huntingdon; it includes, on the suburb of Eynesbury, and has a head post-office. There is a church, and three dissenting chapels. Eynesbury suburb is separated from the town by a streamlet called the Henbrook. The dissenting chapels are Independent, Baptist, and Wesleyan. The parish also contains the hamlets of Monks-Hardwick and Wintringham.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Huntingdonshire 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain