Coton Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

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Coton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COTON, a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire; near the Bedford and Cambridge railway, 2¾ miles W of Cambridge. Post town, Cambridge. Acres, 1, 130. Real property, £1, 785. Pop., 311. Houses, 75. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £213. Patron, Catherine Hall, Cambridge. The church is Norman and early English; consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and two porches with tower and spire; has the monument of Downes, the translator of the Apocrypha; and is good. Charities, £37.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cambridgeshire, Coton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Peter’s Parish Church, Coton, Cambridgeshire, monumental inscriptions
Author: Cambridgeshire Family History Society

England, Cambridgeshire, Coton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Coton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cambridgeshire, Coton – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Coton, 1599-1859
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Coton (Cambridgeshire)

Coton, Cambridgeshire : baptisms, 1538-1891; marriages, 1540-1891; banns, 1756-1890; burials, 1538-1892; index
Author: Awbery, Joan; Travers, Nan; Church of England. Parish Church of Coton (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Coton – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court records of D’Engaynes in Coton, 1736-1866
Author: Manor of D’Engaynes. Court (Cambridge)

England, Cambridgeshire, Coton – History ( 1 )
Coton through the ages
Author: Fowle, Kathleen

Administration

  • County: Cambridgeshire
  • Civil Registration District: Chesterton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Barton
  • Poor Law Union: Chesterton
  • Hundred: Wetherley
  • Province: Canterbury