Bartlow, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire  Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
BARTLOW (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Linton, hundred of Chilford, county of Cambridge, 2 miles (E. S. E.) from Linton. The church has a circular tower, of Norman architecture, said to have been built in the eleventh century; the body of the building is of the fifteenth century. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans in the hamlet of Bartlow.

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
Church of England: Bartlow, St. Mary


 * Parish records begin in 1573
 * Bishop Transcripts begin in 1600

&gt;Parish registers for Bartlow, 1573-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040366 Items 10-16 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center. &gt;Bishop Transcripts for Bartlow, 1600-1862 are on FHL Film # 1818361at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center. The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office and the Society of Genealogists.

Census records


Poor Law Unions
Linton Poor Law Union, Cambridgeshire

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain