Wicken Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

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Wicken is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Other places in the parish include: Upware.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1564
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1567

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WICKEN, a parish, with a village, in Newmarket district, Cambridge; 2¾ miles SSW of Soham, and 7 NW of Newmarket r. station. Post town, Soham. Acres, 3,812. Real property, £7,363. Pop., 995. Houses, 237. The property is much subdivided. Ancient coins and other antiquities have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £90. Patron, the Church Patronage Society. The church is ancient. There are two Methodist chapels and an endowed school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cambridgeshire, Wicken – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Lawence’s Parish Church, Wicken, Cambridgeshire, monumental inscriptions, 1762-1879
Author: Sherman, K.; Cambridgeshire Family History Society

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

England, Cambridgeshire, Wicken – Church records ( 1 )
Wicken, Cambridgeshire, baptisms, 1564-1866; marriages, 1566-1866; banns, 1755-1826; burials, 1564-1856; memoranda, 1653-1699; collection on briefs, 1653-1683
Author: Travers, N. K., Mrs.; Church of England. Parish Church of Wicken (Cambridgeshire); Cambridgeshire Family History Society

England, Cambridgeshire, Wicken – Court records ( 1 )
Court records, 1764-1858
Author: Manor of Wicken. Court (Cambridge)

England, Cambridgeshire, Wicken – History ( 2 )
History of Wicken
Author: Knowles, M.

Turf village : peat diggers of Wicken
Author: Day, Anthony; Rayner, David

England, Cambridgeshire, Wicken – Schools ( 1 )
School records of Wicken Council School, 1877-1927
Author: Wicken Council School (Wicken, Cambridgeshire)

Administration

  • County: Cambridgeshire
  • Civil Registration District: Newmarket
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury
  • Diocese: Post-1836 – Ely, Pre-1837 – Norwich
  • Rural Deanery: Fordham
  • Poor Law Union: Newmarket
  • Hundred: Staploe
  • Province: Canterbury