Fulbourn St Vigoris Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

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Fulbourn St Vigoris is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Alternative names: Fulbourn St Vigor

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Particular Baptist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FULBOURN, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Chesterton district, Cambridge. The village stands under Gogmagog hill, adjacent to the Cambridge and Newmarket railway, 5 miles ESE of Cambridge; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Cambridge.

The parish comprises 5, 221 acres. Real property, £7, 550. Pop., 1, 548. Houses, 298. The property is much subdivided. Fulbourn House is the seat of the Townleys.

There were formerly two parishes F. All Saints and F. St. Vigor’s; and the two livings remain distinct. All Saints is a vicarage, and St. Vigor’s a rectory, in the diocese of Ely. Value of the former, £253; of the latter, £442. Patron of the former, the Bishop of Peterborough; of the latter, St. John’s College, Cambridge.

All Saints Church was taken down in 1776. St. Vigor’s church is later English, and was about to be restored in 1869.

There are chapels for Independents and Baptists, the county lunatic asylum, erected at a cost of about £40,000, and containing accommodation for 250 inmates, a national school, an endowed school with £35, and other charities with £273.

The sub-district contains ten parishes. Acres, 21, 933. Pop., 8, 293. Houses, 1, 778.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Vigor’s Church, All Saint’s Church, United Reformed Church, Old Baptist Chapel, Public Cemetery, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, monumental inscriptions
Author: Cambridgeshire Family History Society

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

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Church records ( 8 )
Baptismal register, 1816-1836
Author: Independent Chapel (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for All Saints’ Church, Fulbourn, 1599-1862
Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for St. Vigor’s Church, Fulbourn, 1599-1857
Author: Church of England. St. Vigor’s Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire); Church of England. All Saints Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

An indexed transcription of the parish registers of Fulbourn All Saints and Fulbourn St. Vigor
Author: Layng, T. P. R (Thomas Peter Royson), 1901-1985; Church of England. All Saints Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire); Church of England. St. Vigor’s Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire); Cambridgeshire Family History Society

Parish register transcripts, 1538-1851
Author: Church of England. St. Vigor’s Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1558-1851
Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

Parish registers for All Saints Church, Fulbourn, 1558-1885
Author: Church of England. All Saints Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

Parish registers for St. Vigor’s Church, Fulbourn, 1538-1877
Author: Church of England. St. Vigor’s Church (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Fulbourn, All Saints, Cambs., Eng

Computer printout of Fulbourn, St. Vigor, Cambs., Eng

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court records of Fulbourn Zouches, now Fulbourn, 1700-1853
Author: Manor of Fulbourn. Court (Cambridge)

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Description and travel ( 1 )
The highways and byways of Fulbourn : together with an appendix on some old Fulbourn roads and tracks & indexes of persons and places
Author: Crane, Don

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – History ( 2 )
Fulbourn chronicle
Author: Crane, D. G.

The highways and byways of Fulbourn : together with an appendix on some old Fulbourn roads and tracks & indexes of persons and places
Author: Crane, Don

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Land and property ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Fulbourn, 1759-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Newspapers ( 1 )
Fulbourn chronicle
Author: Crane, D. G.

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Schools ( 2 )
School records of Fulbourn Church of England Girls’ and Boys’ School, 1863-1893
Author: Fulbourn Church of England Girls’ and Boys’ School (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

School records of Fulbourn Church of England Infants’ and Juniors’ School, 1880-1925
Author: Fulbourn Church of England Infants’ and Juniors’ School (Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Fulbourn, 1759-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Fulbourn – Vital records – Newspapers ( 1 )
Fulbourn chronicle
Author: Crane, D. G.

Administration

  • County: Cambridgeshire
  • Civil Registration District: Chesterton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Ely
  • Diocese: Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Cambridge
  • Poor Law Union: Chesterton
  • Hundred: Flendish
  • Province: Canterbury