Soham, Cambridgeshire Genealogy
Guide to Soham, Cambridgeshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Soham, Cambridgeshire | |
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| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Staploe |
| County | Cambridgeshire |
| Poor Law Union | Newmarket |
| Registration District | Newmarket |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1563 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Fordham |
| Diocese | Pre-1837 - Norwich; Post-1836 - Ely |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury |
| Location of Archive | |
| Cambridgeshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
SOHAM (St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Newmarket, hundred of Staploe, county of Cambridge, 5¾ miles (S. E.) from Ely, and 69 (N. N. E.) from London, with the chapelry of Barway. This was a place of some note at a very early period. St. Felix, first bishop of the East Angles, founded a monastery here about 630, which was the seat of the diocese prior to its removal to Dunwich. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians.[1]
Resources
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
Soham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
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| Cam BTs | 1599-1860 | |
1599-1860 | |
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| FS | 1538-1975 | |
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1538-1991 | |
| FREG | 1539-1950 | |
1540-1949 | |
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| FMP | 1538-1950 | |
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To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Copies of parish registers are also available through the Society of Genealogists and the Cambridge Archives.
Non-Conformist Churches
- Baptist
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Independent/Congregational
- Primitive Methodist
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Unitarian
- Wesleyan Methodist
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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.
Websites
Soham on GENUKI
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 129-133. Date accessed and adapted: 10 July 2013.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk
