Waresley, Huntingdonshire Genealogy

England   Huntingdonshire  Huntingdonshire Parishes

Parish History
Waresley (St. Andrew), is a parish, in the union of St. Neot's, and the hundred of Toseland, Huntingdonshire, it is 4¼ miles N N E from Potton.

Waresley parish discription can also be found at History Genuki.org.uk.

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
Original records available at the Huntingdon Record Office. To view the availability of records, Records click here.

There are cemetery records known as "Mounumental Inscriptions" available on fiche through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The fiche number is 6108701.

Census records
Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 288839.

To view these census images online, they are available through a number of websites for a fee or free.

■FindMyPast (fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■Ancestry.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com. ■The Genealogist.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■FreeCen is a free based UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Huntingdonshire 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain