Alconbury with Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Alconbury with Alconbury Weston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Alconbury Weston, Chesfield, and Chivesfield.

Alternative names: Alconbury, Alkmundbury

Parish church: St. Peter and St. Paul

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Alconbury

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALCONBURY, or Alkmundbury, a parish in the district and county of Huntingdon; on Alconbury brook, near Ermine-street and the Eastern Counties railway, 5 miles NW of Huntingdon. It has a post office under Huntingdon, and a fair on 24 June. Acres, 3,700. Real property, £5,087. Pop., 909. Houses, 200.

Alconbury Lodge is the chief residence. Alconbury hill commands a fine view. Alconbury brook rises on the confines of Northamptonshire, and runs about 3 miles south-eastward to the Ouse at Huntingdon.

The living includes Alconbury-Weston, and is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £162. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ALCONBURY (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the hundred of Leightonstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 4½ miles (N. W.) from Huntingdon; containing 823 inhabitants, and comprising about 4000 acres. A fair is held on Midsummer-day.

The living is a discharged vicarage, with the living of Alconbury-Weston annexed, valued in the king’s books at £8. 6. 1.; net income, £162; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The glebe comprises 186 acres. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Alconbury Weston

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

ALCONBURY-WESTON, a parish, in the hundred of Leightonstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 6 miles (N. W.) from Huntingdon; containing 491 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Alconbury.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Alconbury

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

England, Huntingdonshire, Alconbury – Schools ( 1 )
School log books of Alconbury-cum-Weston National School, 1872-1925
Author: Alconbury-cum-Weston National School (Alconbury, Huntingdonshire)

Alconbury Weston

England, Huntingdonshire, Alconbury-Weston – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Alconbury-Weston, St. Peter & Paul, Huntingdonshire, monumental inscriptions
Author: Pothecary, Andrew

England, Huntingdonshire, Alconbury-Weston – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Alconbury Weston, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Huntingdonshire, Alconbury-Weston – Church records ( 5 )
Alconbury cum Weston (St. Peter & St. Paul) parish registers 1559-1900
Author: Huntingdonshire Family History Society

Alconbury-cum-Weston (St.Peter & St.Pauls) transcript of parish registers 1901-2000
Author: Huntingdonshire Family History Society

Bishop’s transcripts of Alconbury-cum-Weston, 1604-1858
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alconbury-cum-Weston (Huntingdonshire)

The parish church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Alconbury cum Weston, Huntingdonshire : baptisms, 1559-1900; banns, 1755-1900; marriages, 1559-1900; burials, 1559-1900; index, 1559-1900; miscellaneous
Author: Green, Marion; Church of England. Parish Church of Alconbury-cum-Weston (Huntingdonshire); Huntingdonshire Family History Society

Parish registers of Alconbury-cum-Weston, 1559-1876.
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alconbury-cum-Weston (Huntingdonshire)

England, Huntingdonshire, Alconbury-Weston – Schools ( 1 )
School log books of Alconbury-cum-Weston National School, 1872-1925
Author: Alconbury-cum-Weston National School (Alconbury, Huntingdonshire)

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Huntingdon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
  • Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Leightonstone
  • Poor Law Union: Huntingdon
  • Hundred: Leightonstone
  • Province: Canterbury