Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire

Parish History
Drayton-Fen or Fen Drayton, is a parish in the district of St. Ives and county of Cambridge; at the boundary with Huntingdon, 2 miles SW of Swavesey railway station, and 3¼ miles SE by S of St. Ives. The post town is, Fen-Stanton, under St. Ives. A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1866.

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformists 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

Poor Law Unions
St Ives Poor Law Union, Huntingdonshire

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain