Cambridge St Peter, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Parishes

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

Parish History
Cambridge St Peter, a parish in Cambridge and one of the 14 parishes in Cambridge. The church of St. Peter, now disused, includes Roman bricks, and has a Norman door. St. Peter's College, commonly called Peter-house, was founded in 1257, by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.

Cambridge St Peter, a parish in Cambridge.

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.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Particular Baptist
 * Independent
 * Presbyterian
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints

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
Cambrdige St Peter on GENUKI