Over, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
OVER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St. Ives, hundred of Papworth, county of Cambridge, 4½ miles E by S from St. Ives. There is a place of worship for Baptists.

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

Parish Church of Over Transcripts at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Poor Law Unions

 * St Ives Poor Law Union, Huntingdonshire

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
Over on GENUKI