Whittlesey St Andrew, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Whittlesey consisted historically of two parishes:


 * St Andrew
 * St Mary

Parish History
WHITTLESEY, a village, and district comprising the parishes of St. Andrew and St. Mary, which form a union, in the hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Peterborough. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Calvinistic Methodists.

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
Whittlesey Saint Andrew, Cambridgeshire : [parish register transcripts, 1602-1851 at FHL]

Bishop's transcripts for St. Andrew's Church, Whittlesey, 1602-1856 at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches

 * French Church
 * General Baptist New Connexion
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

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
Whittlesey on GENUKI

Whittlesey St. Andrew on GENUKI