Croxton, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CROXTON (St. James), a parish, in the union of Caxton and Arrington, hundred of Longstowe, county of Cambridge, 3½ miles WNW from Caxton.

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

Parish registers for Croxton, 1538-1949 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Croxton, 1599-1867 at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 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
Croxton on GENUKI