Little Downham, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Downham, is a parish in Ely district, Cambridgeshire; it is on the Peterborough and Ely railway, near Chittisham railway station, and 2¾ miles NW of Ely. It has a post office under Ely. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans.

DOWNHAM (St. Leonard), a parish in the union, hundred, and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 2½ miles (N. N. W.) from Ely;There are places of worship for Baptists and Methodists.

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

Parish registers and poor law records for Downham, 1558-1875 at FHL

Registers of Downham, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England : locally called Little Downham to distinguish it from Downham Market not far away at FHL

Downham in the Isle, Cambridgeshire : parish register transcripts, baptisms, 1558-1907; marriages, 1558-1923; burials, 1558-1950; banns, 1754-1927 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Downham, 1599-1862 at FHL

Non Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Particular Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Little Downham on GENUKI