Benwick, Cambridgeshire Genealogy
Guide to Benwick, Cambridgeshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Benwick, Cambridgeshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | North Witchford |
| County | Cambridgeshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | North Witchford |
| Registration District | North Witchford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1851; For more records see Doddington | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1851 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Ely |
| Diocese | Ely |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cambridgeshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BENWICK, a chapelry, in the parish of Doddington, union and hundred of North Witchford, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 8¼ miles SW from March.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Benwick parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Benwick Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| Cam BTs | 1599-1860 | 1599-1860 | 1599-1860 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| FREG | 1539-1950 | 1540-1949 | 1540-1966 | |||
| FMP | 1538-1950 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1950 | |||
| FMP Banns | 1653-1981 | |||||
| NBI | 1851-1982 | |||||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| ANC | 1538-1975 | 1538–1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| IGI | 1851-1875 | 1851-1875 | ||||
| FS Catalog PRs | 1746-1876 | 1746-1876 | 1746-1876 | |||
| FS Catalog BTs | 1851-1857 | 1851-1857 | 1851-1857 | |||
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.
Copies of parish registers are also available through the Society of Genealogists and the Cambridge Archives.
Church of England: Benwick
- Parish registers for Benwick, 1851-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040370 Items 5-12 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.
- Bishop Transcripts for Benwick, 1851-1857 are on FHL Film # 1818366 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.
The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- Calvinistic Baptist
- Methodist covered on Records Genuki.org.uk
- Primitive Methodist
- Strict Baptist
- Wesleyan Methodist
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Benwick on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England,(1848). Adapted. Date accessed: 08 January 2014.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
