Papworth St. Agnes, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

Guide to Papworth Agnes, Cambridgeshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
PAPWORTH ST. AGNES (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Caxton and Arrington, partly in the hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, but chiefly in that of Papworth, county of Cambridge, 4 miles SSE from Huntingdon.

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:

The Anglican church is St. John the Baptist.

Parish Registers are available from 1558-1878

Bishop Transcripts, available from 1599-1841 on FHL Film # 2358003 Items 5-6, have been digitised.

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
Papworth Agnes on GENUKI