Wistow, Huntingdonshire Genealogy
| Wistow, Huntingdonshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Hurstingstone |
| County | Huntingdonshire |
| Poor Law Union | St Ives |
| Registration District | St Ives |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1628 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1604 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | St Ives |
| Diocese | Pre-1837 - Lincoln; Post-1836 - Ely |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon |
| Location of Archive | |
| Huntingdonshire Record Office | |
Guide to Wistow, Huntingdonshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Wistow, is a parish, with a village, in St. Ives district, Huntingdonshire, 3 miles S W of Ramsey railway station. There is an Independent chapel.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Wistow, Huntingdonshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| WISTOW PARISH Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1604-1837 | |||||
| FREG | None | None | 1604-1837 | None | None | None |
| HUNT | 1801-1837 | |||||
| JOIN | 1604-1836 | |||||
| NBI | 1701-1900 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1837 | |||||
| TGEN | 1604-1836 | |||||
Census records[edit | edit source]
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.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
St Ives Poor Law Union, Huntingdonshire
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Huntingdonshire 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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Wistow on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-2. Date accessed: 22 August 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Huntingdonshire Burials,' findmypast (WayBack Machine), accessed 26 April 2014.
- ↑ Huntingdonshire Coverage, The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 18 April 2014.
- ↑ 'National Burial Index - Huntingdonshire Coverage,' findmypast (WayBack Machine), accessed 18 April 2014.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Parish Records,' TheGenealogist, accessed 25 April 2014.
