Little Raveley Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

Little Raveley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire, created in 1746 from a chapelry in Bury Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. James

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1576
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Broughton
• Upwood with Great Raveley
• Wistow
• Abbots Ripton

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RAVELEY (Little), a parish in the district and county of Huntingdon; 4 miles SW by W of Ramsey r. station, and 5¾ NNE of Huntingdon. Post-town, Old Hurst, under Huntingdon. Acres, 760. Real property, £907. Pop., 60. Houses, 13. The manor belongs to the Earl of Sandwich. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £50. Patron, the Earl of Sandwich. The church is good, and was originally a chapel. of ease to Bury-by-Ramsey.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

RAVELEY, LITTLE (St. James), a parish, in the hundred of Hurstingstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Ramsey; containing 55 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated in the eastern part of the county, comprises by computation between 800 and 900 acres. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £42; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Sandwich. The church, erected about 1350, was formerly a chapel of ease to Bury. Within the last few years several skeletons have been dug up in a gravel-pit, also a Roman urn of blue earth.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Registers

Little Raveley Marriages 1577 to 1839

Little Raveley Parish Records

FamilySearch

Huntingdonshire Historical Directories

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: St Ives
• Poor Law Union: Huntingdon
• Hundred: Hurstingstone
• Province: Canterbury