West Wickham, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WICKHAM, WEST (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Linton, hundred of Chilford, county of Cambridge, 4¾ miles NE by E from Linton.

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:


 * Parish registers for West Wickham, 1682-1877 at FHL
 * West Wickham parish registers:baptisms, 1682-1858; marriages, 1682-1841; banns, 1755-1812; burials, 1682-1922 at FHL
 * Bishop's transcripts for West Wickham, 1599-1685 at FHL

Non-Conformist Churches
None

Poor Law Unions
Linton Poor Law Union, Cambridgeshire

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
West Wickham on GENUKI