Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CAMBRIDGE, is a university town, the capital of Cambridgeshire. It stands on the Via Devana, the river Cam, and the Eastern Counties railway, 51 miles by road, and 57½ by railway, N by E of London. The railways go from it in six directions, toward London, Hitchin, Bedford, Huntingdon, Ely, and Ipswich, and toward all parts of the kingdom.

The parishes and chapels within the city and parish boundary are as follows:


 * All Saints - 1538
 * Holy Trinity - 1566
 * St. Andrew the Great - 1600
 * St. Andrew the Less orBarnwell- 1599
 * St. Benedict- 1539
 * St. Botolph - 1564
 * St. Clement - 1560 
 * St. Edward - 1558
 * St. Giles - 1585
 * St. Mary the Great - 1559
 * St. Mary the Less- 1557
 * St. Michael - 1538
 * St Paul - 1845
 * St Peter (later united to---&gt; St Sepulchre) - 1586
 * St. Sepulchre - 1569
 * Barnwell Chapel - 1826 - see also St Andrew the Less
 * Holy Trinity Newtown Chapelry - 1841

Other places of worship in 1851 were Independents, Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Latter-Day Saints, and Roman Catholics.

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
There are online transcriptions available for Ashton in Makerfield St Thomas and its chapel of ease, Downall Green Holy Trinity (Garswood-End).

Other important considerations:

The baptisms and marriages for most of the Cambridge parishes are online. Barnwell Chapelry was annexed as a chapel of ease, commencing in 1826 to St Andrew the Less. If you are searching for ancestry in 1826, be certain to include a search in especially St Andrew the Less Parish.

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 on GENUKI