Huntingdon St Mary and St Benedict, Huntingdonshire Genealogy

England   Huntingdonshire  Huntingdonshire Parishes

Parish History
Huntingdon, is a town, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district in Huntingdonshire. The town is on the river Ouse, Ermine and the Great Northern railway. All Saints church is on the N side of the market place. An Independent chapel was built here in 1868. There are also chapels for Quakers, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. The four parishes in Huntingdon are All Saints, St. Mary, St. John, and St. Benedict.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain