Witchford Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

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Witchford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Other places in the parish include: The Wash, Byau, Byall, and Meadlands.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1754
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WITCHFORD, a parish and a hundred in Cambridge. The parish lies 3 miles W by S of Ely r. station, and has a postal pillar-box under Ely. Acres, 2,376. Real property, £5,266. Pop., 559. Houses, 118. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £230. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church was restored in 1851. The hundred contains 12 parishes; and is cut into two divisions, N and S. Acres, 59,823 and 37,462. Pop. in 1851, 16,243 and 8,564; in 1861, 29,827. Houses, 6,602.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Cambridgeshire, Witchford – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Andrew’s Church, Witchford, Cambridgeshire, monumental inscriptions
Author: Bullwinkle, Alan; Cambridgeshire Family History Society

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

England, Cambridgeshire, Witchford – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Witchford, 1599-1858
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Witchford (Cambridgeshire)

An indexed transcription of the parish registers of Witchford : baptisms, 1599-1950; marriages, 1599-1949; burials, 1599-1950; banns, 1754-1950
Author: Symonds, Avril; Church of England. Parish Church of Witchford (Cambridgeshire); Cambridgeshire Family History Society

England, Cambridgeshire, Witchford – Court records ( 1 )
Petty Sessions settlement examinations, 1743-1837
Author: Great Britain. Court of Petty Sessions (Ely and South Witchford, Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Witchford – Land and property ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Witchford, 1750-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Witchford – Military records ( 1 )
Militia enrollment records of Witchford, Cambridge, 1782-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Witchford – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Witchford, 1750-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

Administration

  • County: Cambridgeshire
  • Civil Registration District: Ely
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Ely
  • Poor Law Union: Ely
  • Hundred: South Witchford
  • Province: Canterbury