Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
TYDD St. Giles, a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5½ miles NW by N from Wisbech. There is a place of worship for Independents.

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

An indexed transcription of the parish registers of Tydd St. Giles: baptisms, 1599-1950; marriages, 1559-1950; burials, 1599-1941; banns, 1754-1950 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1131409 Tydd-St. Giles, 1599-1861 have been digitised.]

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * General Baptist

Poor Law Unions

 * Wisbech Poor Law Union

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
Tydd St. Giles on GENUKI