Shepreth, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire   Cambridgeshire Parishes

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

Parish History
SHEPRETH (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Wetherley, county of Cambridge, 5¾ miles (N. by W.) from Royston.

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

The registers of baptisms, marriages and burials in the parish of Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, 1559-1837 at FHL

An indexed transcription of the parish registers of Shepreth : baptisms, 1559-1940; marriages, 1559-1935; burials, 1559-1950; banns, 1754-1939 at FHL

Bishop's transcripts for Shepreth, 1599-1871 have been digitised.

Non-Conformist Churches
Independent/Congregational

Census records


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
Shepreth on GENUKI