Little Stukeley Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Little Stukeley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Martin

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1566
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STUKELEY (Little), a parish, with a compact village, in the district and county of Huntingdon; 3 miles NNW of Huntingdon r. station. It has a post-office under Huntingdon. Acres, 1,500. Real property, £2,348. Pop., 385. Houses, 90. The manor belongs to the Duke of Manchester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £400. Patron, the Duke of Manchester. The church is good. There are two free schools, and charities £25.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STUKELEY, LITTLE (St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of Hurstingstone, union and county of Huntingdon, 3¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Huntingdon; containing 396 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated in a valley between two hills, and on the old north road, comprises 1383a. 28p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £13. 13. 1½., and in the patronage of Lady Olivia Sparrow; net income, £252. The tithes were commuted for land in 1813; the glebe altogether comprises 273 acres, with an excellent house, which, with the land, has been greatly improved by the present incumbent. The church is an ancient structure in the early English style, with a tower richly covered with ivy.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

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