Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Wisbech consisted historically of two parishes:


 * St Mary
 * St Peter

England   Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
Wisbech St Augustine, is the ecclesiastical district, of Leverington and Wisbech St Peter parishes, Cambridgeshire.

Wisbech or Wisbeach-St. Mary, is a parish, with Guyhirn chapelry and Murrow hamlet, in Wisbeach district, Cambridge; 2¾ miles SW by W of Wisbeach railway station. The post town is, Wisbeach. There is an Independent chapel.

Wisbech or Wisbeach St. Peter and Paul, is a town, a parish, a district, and a hundred, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. The town is on the Old Nen river, and is at a convergence of railways, it is contiguous to Norfolk, and 13 miles SW of Lynn; and has a post-office. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Johnsonians, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, and Unitarians, as well as a Roman Catholic chapel.

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 conformists 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

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