Balsham, Cambridgeshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BALSHAM (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Linton, hundred of Radfield, county of Cambridge, 3 miles NE by N 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
Balsham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Church of England: Balsham


 * Parish registers for Balsham, 1558-1876 are on FHL Film # 1040403 Items 9-18 at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.
 * Bishop Transcripts for Balsham, 1602-1876 are on FHL Film # 1485267at the Family History Library or through a Family History Center.

The original registers are deposited at the Cambridgeshire Record Office and the Society of Genealogists.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Society of Friends (Quaker)

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
Balsham on GENUKI