Upwell, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Cambridgeshire

Parish History
Upwell St Peter is an Ancient Parish partly in Cambridgeshire and partly in Norfolk.

It has two churches within the Parish Upwell St Peter and Upwell Christchurch which are physically located in Norfolk. Welney is a chapelry of Upwell. See also Upwell, Norfolk.

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.


 * Wisbech 1837-1938
 * Downham 1938-1974

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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/Church_Pages/upwell_st_peter.htm for images of the church and Norfolk Baptism project transcript

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 241227. 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.

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

http://www.btinternet.com/~e.c.apling/1891Census/Upwell.htm transcript of 1891 census

Poor Law Unions
For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Wisbech/Wisbech.shtml

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

http://apling.freeservers.com/Villages/Upwell54.htm Francis White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Norfolk 1854, pp. 641-3 transcript

Web sites
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/upwell-st-peter/ for information about the church

http://www.achurchnearyou.com/upwell-christchurch-christ-church/