Babraham, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BABRAHAM (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Linton, hundred of Chilford, county of Cambridge, 4½ miles NW from Linton.

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

Church of England: Babraham, St. Peter


 * Parish registers for Babraham, 1561-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040364 Items 14-23 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.
 * Bishop Transcripts for Babraham, 1599-812 are on FHL Film # 1485266 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.. This microfilm has been digitised.

The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office and the Society of Genealogists.

Non-Conformist Churches
Methodist: Records for these exist in various locations
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Poor Law Unions
Linton Poor Law Union, Cambridgeshire

The Overseers accounts from 1829-1837 are on FHL Film # 1040403 Items 1-8 available at the Family History Library and a Family History Center.

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
Babraham on GENUKI