Welney, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WELNEY, a chapelry, in the parish of Upwell, union of Downham, partly in the hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, and partly in the hundred of Clackclose, W. division of Norfolk, 10 miles (S. W.) from Downham.

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.

Partly in Camridgeshire until 1889


 * Downham 1889-1974

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 for the section in Cambridgeshire are listed under Norfolk in the FamilySearch Catalog. The actual registers for this parish are deposited at Cambridgeshire Archives and Libraries.

Welney parish registers, St. Mary' Church in the counties of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, since 1896 wholly in the county of Norfolk, 1642-1904 : baptisms, 1642-1904; marriages, 1653-1895; banns, 1755-1894; burials, 1653-1846 at FHL

Non Conformist Churches
None

Census records


Poor Law Unions
Downham Poor Law Union

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

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