Cambridge St Giles, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Cambridge St Giles is a parish in Cambridge. The church of St. Giles, rebuilt in 1875—6 near the site of the old church in Castle street, in the Early French Gothic style. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1596; marriages and burials, 1607; the registers of St. Peter’s, dating from 1586, are also kept here. See Cambridge for more information.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Copies of parish registers are also available through the Society of Genealogists and the Cambridge Archives.

Non Conformist Churches
Baptist
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Other chapels and congregations within the township include--
 * Particular Baptist
 * Independent
 * Presbyterian
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints

Census Records
Information on these records is available on the Wiki page for Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

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
Cambridge St Giles on GENUKI