Cottenham Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

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Cottenham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1572
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Strict Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COTTENHAM, a village and a parish in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire. The village stands 2 miles S of the Old West river, 3¾ NW of Waterbeach r. station, and 6¾ N of Cambridge; and has a post office under Cambridge.

It is the place where the monks of the abbot of Croyland, in the early part of the 12th century, established courses of lectures which resulted in a regular system of academical education at Cambridge; it was damaged by fire, to the value of about £100, 000, in the spring of 1850; and it gives the title of Baron and Earl to the family of Pepys.

The parish comprises 7, 107 acres. Real property, £16, 489. Pop., 2, 415. Houses, 526. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged, in the beginning of the 12th century, to Geoffry, abbot of Croyland. The land was long famous for pasture, and for the produce of a fine cream cheese, called the Cottenham cheese.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £770. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is later English, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a lofty tower. There are four dissenting chapels. A free school, founded in 1703, by Catherine Pepys, has £153 from endowment; and other charities have £375. Archbishop Tenison and Lord Chancellor Cottenham were natives.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cambridgeshire, Cottenham – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, monumental inscriptions, the Dissenter’s Cemetery
Author: Cottenham Village Society

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

England, Cambridgeshire, Cottenham – Church records ( 6 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Cottenham, 1599-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cottenham (Cambridgeshire)

Cambridgeshire non conformist records
Author: Cambridgeshire Family History Society; Hurst, Janet

Church records, 1871-1901
Author: Cottenham Circuit (Wesleyan Methodist)

An indexed transcription of the parish registers of Cottenham : baptisms, 1572-1950; marriages, 1573-1950; burials, 1582-1950; banns, 1756-1950
Author: Symmonds, Avril; Church of England. Parish Church of Cottenham (Cambridgeshire); Cambridgeshire Family History Society

Manor court records, 1712-1866; minute book, 1748-1859 for the Rectory of Cottenham
Author: Manor of Cottenham. Court (Cambridge)

Parish registers for Cottenham, 1572-1876
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cottenham (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Cottenham – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Cottenham, Cottenham Circuit Wesleyan Methodist, Cambs., Eng

England, Cambridgeshire, Cottenham – Court records ( 3 )
Manor court book for the manor of Lyles, 1774-1847; manor court book for the manor of Sames, 1717-1851
Author: Manor of Lyles. Court (Cambridge); Manor of Lyles. Court (Cambridge); Manor of Sames. Court (Cambridge)

Manor court records for the manor of Crowlands with Cotthenham, Cambridge, 1703-1850
Author: Manor of Crowlands. Court (Cambridge)

Manor court records, 1712-1866; minute book, 1748-1859 for the Rectory of Cottenham
Author: Manor of Cottenham. Court (Cambridge)

England, Cambridgeshire, Cottenham – Genealogy – Sources ( 1 )
The Mervyn Haird collection of Cottenham
Author: Brown, Hugo

England, Cambridgeshire, Cottenham – History ( 1 )
The Mervyn Haird collection of Cottenham
Author: Brown, Hugo

Administration

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