Abington Pigotts, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England   Cambridgeshire   Cambridgeshire

Parish History
Abington Pigotts is an Ancient Parish in the County of Cambridgeshire. A more detailed description is available at Genuki.org.uk. Additional information is also available at Cambridge History. This parish is also known as Abington-in-the-Clay and Abinton-by-Shingay.

ABINGTON-IN-THE-CLAY, or Abington-Pigots (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Royston, hundred of Armingford, county of Cambridge, 4½ miles (W. N. W.) from Royston.

Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 5-9. Date accessed: 26 April 2012.

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 begin in 1729 and Bishop Transcripts begin in 1599. The Church of England records for Abington Pigotts, St. Michael's are available on microfilm through the Family History Library or your local Family History Center.

The Parish registers of Abington Pigotts, otherwise Abington juxta Shingay, in the county of Cambridge, 1653-1812: Film # 845445 Item 2 Bishop's transcripts for Abington-in-the-Clay, 1599-1871: Film No. 1485264

Copies of the Parish registers are also available through the Society of Genealogists and theCambridge Record Office.

Boyds Marriage Index covers 1559-1837 and is available on British Origins and FindMyPast.

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

Web sites
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