Welney is a chapelry in Upwell Ancient Parish in Cambridgeshire. Welney is partly in Cambridgeshire and partly in Norfolk.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1642
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1710
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Methodist
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WELNEY, a chapelry in Upwell parish, Cambridge and Norfolk; on the old Bedford river, 6 miles NE by E of Manea r. station, and 10 ESE of March. It has a post-office under Wisbeach. Acres, 5,292. Real property of the Cambridge part, £5,043; of the Norfolk part, £6,854. Pop., 477 and 624. Houses, 105 and 131. The property is subdivided.
Extensive sheets of water, for decoying wild ducks, are here; and form fine skating-ground in winter. A boat, 8 feet below the river’s bed, was found in 1635. Roman coins, urns, and other relics, have been found.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £1,300. Patron, W. Townley, Esq. The church was built in 1850, and is in the early English style.
There are Baptist and Methodist chapels, and a free school.
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, Cambridgeshire, Welney
England, Norfolk, Welney – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Welney, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Norfolk, Welney – Church records ( 5 )
Archdeacons transcripts, 1726-1812
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Norfolk and Norwich Record Office (Norwich, England)
England, Norfolk, Welney, Parish registers, 1642-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Welney (Norfolk); Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely (England). County Record Office
Poor law records for Welney, 1691-1820
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Welney (Norfolk)
Saint Mary the Virgin, Welney, marriage registers 1813-1895
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Shingles, D. G.
Welney parish registers, St. Mary’ Church in the counties of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, since 1896 wholly in the county of Norfolk, 1642-1904 : baptisms, 1642-1904; marriages, 1653-1895; banns, 1755-1894; burials, 1653-1846
Author: Farrar, Gillian; Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Cambridgeshire Family History Society
England, Norfolk, Welney – Land and property ( 1 )
Poor law records for Welney, 1691-1820
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Welney (Norfolk)
England, Norfolk, Welney – Occupations ( 1 )
Poor law records for Welney, 1691-1820
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Welney (Norfolk)
England, Norfolk, Welney – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records for Welney, 1691-1820
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Welney (Norfolk)
England, Norfolk, Welney – Public records ( 1 )
England, Norfolk, Welney, Parish registers, 1642-1876
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Welney (Norfolk); Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely (England). County Record Office
England, Norfolk, Welney – Taxation ( 1 )
Poor law records for Welney, 1691-1820
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Welney (Norfolk); Welney (Norfolk)
Administration
- County: Cambridgeshire
- Civil Registration District: Downham
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
- Diocese: Norwich
- Rural Deanery: Fincham
- Poor Law Union: Downham
- Hundred: Wisbech
- Province: Canterbury