Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Great Staughton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Dillington, Perry, and Staughton Moor.

Alternative names: South Side, North Side

Parish church: St. Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1540
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STAUGHTON (Great), a parish, with several hamlets, in St. Neots district, Hunts; 3 miles SE of Kimbolton r. station. It has a post-office under St. Neots. Acres, 5,940. Real property, £8,900. Pop., 1,312. Houses, 297. The property is much subdivided. S. House and Gaines Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £500. Patron, St. John’s College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good. There are two Baptist chapels, a Wesleyan chapel, a parochial school, and charities £49.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STAUGHTON, GREAT (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of St. Neot’s, hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, 3¼ miles (S. E. by S.) from Kimbolton; containing 1285 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £20; net income, £545; patrons, the President and Fellows of St. John’s College, Oxford; impropriator, D. Onslow, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents, under acts of inclosure, in 1804 and 1807. A school is endowed with £18. 10. per annum; and an allotment of 24 acres of the town field, awarded for other parcels of land bequeathed for charitable uses, produces £50 yearly.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Registers

Marriage Licences and Allegations

London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869

The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.

Beverley, James, of Graines Park, co. Huntingdon, esq., bachelor, about 21, and Mrs. Anne Duncombe, of Sherrington, co. Bucks, spinster, about 18, her mother’s consent, alleged by Thomas Beverley, of Graines Park aforesaid, esq. — at St. Paul, Covent Garden. 10 Feb. 1674/5. V.  

Chamberlaine, Thomas (Chamberlin), of St. Peter, Cornhill, London, citizen and poulterer, bachelor, about 22, and Mrs. Anne Crow, of Staughton, co. Huntingdon, spinster, about 22, with consent of her father, William Crowe, of same, gent., at Little Staughton or Kimbolton, co. Hunts. 26 June, 1678. V.

Conyers, John, of Gray’s Inn, esq., bachelor, about 26, and Mrs. Mary Newman, of Great Staunton, co. Huntingdon, spinster, about 22, her mother’s consent — at Llipton, Newton, Burns Wield, Twivell, or Higham Ferrers, co. Northampton. 9 Nov. 1675. V

Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: St Neots
  • 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: St Neots
  • Poor Law Union: St Neots
  • Hundred: Toseland
  • Province: Canterbury