Helion Bumpstead, Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

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Helion Bumpstead is an Ancient Parish partly in Cambridgeshire and partly in Essex.

Other places in the parish include: Olmstead.

Alternative names: Helions Bumpstead

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629; 1800

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BUMPSTEAD-HELION, a parish in the district of Risbridge, and county of Essex; on the N verge of the county, and on the Halstead and Haverhill railway, near Birdbrook station, 8 miles NNE of Thaxted. It has a post office under Newmarket. Acres, 3,191. Real property, £4,210. Pop., 887. Houses, 191. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the East Essex hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £174. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

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England, Essex, Helion Bumpstead

England, Essex, Bumpstead-Helion – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Helion Bumpstead, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Essex, Bumpstead-Helion – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bumpstead-Helion, 1800-1874
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bumpstead-Helion (Essex)

Bishop’s transcripts for Bumpstead-Helion, [undated]
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bumpstead-Helion (Essex)

Bumpstead Helions, Essex, England : transcription of all births, marriages and deaths, 1558-1900, (arranged alphabetically by surname)
Author: Wall, Dusty; Church of England. Parish Church of Bumpstead-Helion (Essex)

Parish registers for Bumpstead-Helion, 1558-1970
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bumpstead-Helion (Essex)

Tithe book, 1740-1779
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Bumpstead-Helion (Essex)

England, Essex, Bumpstead-Helion – History ( 1 )
Times past

Administration

  • County: Cambridgeshire
  • Civil Registration District: Risbridge
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (Essex and Hertfordshire Division)
  • Diocese: Pre-1846 – London, Post-1845 – Rochester
  • Rural Deanery: Sampford
  • Poor Law Union: Risbridge
  • Hundred: Chilford
  • Province: Canterbury