Wistow Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Wistow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. John the Baptist

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1628
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Wistow Parish Registers

Wistow Marriages 1604 to 1837 Huntingdonshire Parish Registers Marriages V. 1. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and W. M. Noble, Rector of Wistow. Publisher: Phillimore & Co. Date of publication: 1912 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WISTOW, a parish, with a village, in St. Ives district, Hunts; 3 miles S by W of Ramsey r. station. It has a post-office under Huntingdon. Acres, 2,070. Real property, £3,922. Pop., 532. Houses, 108. The manor belongs to Capt. H. Foley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £354. Patron, the Rev. T. Woodruff. The church is later English. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £6.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WISTOW (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of St. Ives, hundred of Hurstingstone, county of Huntingdon, 3¾ miles (S. S. W.) from Ramsey; containing 490 inhabitants, and comprising 2332a. 3r. 7p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £10. 17. 8½.; net income, £354; patron, R. G. Woodruff, Esq. There is a glebe-house, and the glebe contains 38 acres.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: St Ives
  • 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: St Ives
  • Hundred: Hurstingstone
  • Province: Canterbury