Haverhill, Suffolk Genealogy

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

Parish History
HAVERHILL (St. Mary), a market-town and parish, in the union of Risbridge, partly in the hundred of Hinckford, N. division of Essex, but chiefly in the hundred of Risbridge, W. division of Suffolk, 20 miles (S. W.) from Bury St. Edmund's, and 56 (N. N. E.) from London. See also.

Refer to the works listed in Suffolk Gazetteers or England Gazetteers for source material.

Resources

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Suffolk Record Office.

Non-Church of England denominations identified in Haverhill include:


 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Presbyterian
 * Quakers (Society of Friends)

Courtesy of the Haverhill Family History Group:


 * Haverhill Independant Baptisms
 * Haverhill Old Independent Church Marriages
 * Haverhill Cemetery Burial Records
 * Steeple Bumpstead Baptisms 1676-1907
 * Steeple Bumpstead Marriages: By Wifes Name, By Husbands Name

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Suffolk 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

Maps and Gazetters
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites

 * Haverhill Family History Group Website
 * Haverhill Genealogy Message Board