Wisbech St Mary is a chapelry of Wisbech St Peter and St Paul Ancient Parish in Cambridgeshire.
Other places in the parish include: Ringsend, Guyhirne with Ringsend, Guyhirn, and Guyhirne.
Alternative names: Wisbeach St Mary
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1557
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Wisbech St Mary
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WISBEACH-ST. MARY, a parish, with Guyhirn chapelry and Murrow hamlet, in Wisbeach district, Cambridge; 2¾ miles SW by W of Wisbeach r. station. Post town, Wisbeach. Acres, 9,606. Pop. in 1851, 2,115; in 1861, 1,887. Houses, 434.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £714. Patron, the Bishop of Ely. The church is later English. The p. curacy of Guyhirn is a separate benefice.
There are an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £40 a year, and charities £147.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WISBECH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of Wisbech: containing, with the chapelry of Guyhirn, 1931 inhabitants. The parish comprises 9483a. 1r. 5p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are common or waste. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Wisbech St. Peter. The church is principally in the later English style, with a large square tower. At Guyhirn is a neat chapel, built in 1666, of which the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar. A school is endowed with 21 acres of land.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Guyhirn
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GUYHIRN, a chapelry, with a railway station, in Wisbeach St. Mary parish, Cambridge; on the New Nen river, 6½ miles SW of Wisbeach. It has a postoffice under Wisbeach. Pop., nearly 600. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £80. Patron, the Vicar of Wisbeach.
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, Wisbeach – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Monumental inscriptions, Cambridge, England
Register of burials in the burial ground of the borough of Wisbeach, 1881-1909
Author: Borough of Wisbeach Cemetery (Cambridgeshire)
Register of burials, Wisbeach General Cemetery, Cambridge, 1836-1921
Author: Wisbeach General Cemetery (Cambridge)
England, Cambridgeshire, Wisbeach – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wisbech, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Cambridgeshire, Wisbeach – Church records ( 11 )
Baptismal register, 1819-1837
Author: Castle Square Chapel (Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire : Independent)
Birth records, 1784-1837
Author: Unitarian Baptist Church (Wisbeach)
Births and burials, 1777-1841
Author: Society of Friends. Wisbech Monthly Meeting (England)
Bishop’s transcripts for Wisbeach-St. Peter’s Church, 1600-1869
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wisbeach-St. Peter (Cambridgeshire)
Burials register, 1818-1837
Author: General Baptist Society (Wisbeach)
Cambridgeshire non conformist records
Author: Cambridgeshire Family History Society; Hurst, Janet
Church records, 1700-1837
Author: General Baptist Church (Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire)
Church records, 1792-1837
Author: Baptist Chapel in Upper Hill Street (Wisbeach : Particular Baptist)
Copy of a book containing registers of births, burials, and marriages : and other records belonging to the General Baptist Church of Wibech, Cambridgeshire, and deposited for safe custody with the other non-parochial registers preserved at the General Register Office, London
Parish registers for Wisbeach-St. Peter, 1558-1950
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wisbeach-St. Peter (Cambridgeshire)
Parish registers of Wisbech St. Peter & Paul 1850-1950, St. Augustine & Chapel of Ease or Octagon Chapel
Author: Cambridgeshire Family History Society
England, Cambridgeshire, Wisbeach – Church records – Indexes ( 6 )
Computer printout of Wisbech (Isle of Ely), Baptist, Cambridgeshire, England
Computer printout of Wisbech or Wisbeach (Isle of Ely), Castle Square Independent, Cambs., Eng
Computer printout of Wisbech or Wisbeach (Isle of Man), St. Peters Deasman’s Lane or Church Lane Unitarian Baprist, Cambs., E
Computer printout of Wisbech or Wisbeach (Isle of Man), St. Peters Upper Hill Street formerly Ship Lane Baptist, Cambs., Eng
Parish register printouts of Wisbeach, Cambridge, England (Independent, Castle Square Chapel) ; christenings, 1819-1828, 1830-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Wisbech, Cambridge, England (Wesleyan) ; christenings, 1810-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Cambridgeshire, Wisbeach – History ( 3 )
History of Wisbech and neighbourhood, during the last fifty years, 1848-1898
Author: Gardiner, Frederic John
A history of Wisbech Castle
Author: Anniss, George
The Wisbech Stirs (1595-1598)
Author: Renold, Penelope
England, Cambridgeshire, Wisbeach – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor law records of Wisbech Union, 1859-1900
Author: Wisbeach Poor Law Union (Cambridge)
England, Cambridgeshire, Wisbeach – Schools ( 2 )
School records of South Brink Council School, 1880-1925
Author: South Brink Council School (Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire)
School records of Wisbech Boys’ British School, Victoria Road, 1863-1928
Author: Wisbeach Boys’ British School, Victoria Road (Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire)
Guyhirn
England, Cambridgeshire, Guyhirn – Church history ( 1 )
David Culy and the Culimites : a short history of Guyhirn’s unique sect
Author: Bevis, Trevor Allen
England, Cambridgeshire, Guyhirn – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers for Wisbeach-St. Mary, 1557-1877
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wisbeach-St. Mary (Cambridgeshire)
England, Cambridgeshire, Guyhirn – Schools ( 1 )
School records of Guyhirn National School, 1891-1921
Author: Guyhirn National School (Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire)
Administration
- County: Cambridgeshire
- Civil Registration District: Wisbeach
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Ely
- Rural Deanery: Wisbech
- Poor Law Union: Wisbech
- Hundred: Wisbech
- Province: Canterbury