Wood Walton, Huntingdonshire Genealogy

Guide to Wood Walton, Huntingdonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Wood Walton or Walton, Wood (St. Andrew), is a parish, in the hundred of Norman-Cross, and the union of Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, 7 miles N W from Huntingdon.

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:

Original church records are available from the Huntingdon Records Office. To view their available content, Records click here. Additional records are available from the Huntingdon Family History Society.


 * Parish Registers for Wood Walton, 1605-1875 are available on film through a Family History Center and at the Family History Library. The first film number is 1040731.
 * Bishop's transcripts for Wood Walton, 1605-1874 are available on film through a Family History Center and at the Family History Library. The first film number is 1041716.

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Huntingdonshire 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
Wood Walton on GENUKI