Royston, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

England Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Parishes

Parish History
Royston, is a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, all in Hertfordshire, but part of the parish electorally is in Cambridgeshire, with another part of it in Essex. The town is on the boundary of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, adjacent to the Hitchin and Cambridge railway, 13 miles E N E of Hitchin; it has a post-office, and a railway station, there are Independent and Unitarian chapels.

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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Church records fall under Hertfordshire and located there in the FHL catalog.

Non Conformist Churches
Cambridge non conformist records

Society of Friends (Royston)

Society of Friends (Hitchin)

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

Web sites
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