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England Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire Parishes

Guide to Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Fenstanton or Fen-Stanton, is a village and a parish in St. Ives district, Huntingdonshire, 2 miles S of St. Ives. There are two dissenting chapels.^[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records[edit | edit source]

Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£)^[2]
BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (FindMyPast) - (£)^[3]
FREG = FreeREG - free^[4]
HUNT = Huntingdonshire Burials (FindMyPast) - (£)^[5]
IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free^[6]
NBI = National Burial Index (FindMyPast) - (£)^[7]

Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire Genealogy Parish Online Records
	Baptisms		Marriages		Burials
	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images	Indexes	Images
BIVRI	1604-1876		1604-1876
BOYD			1613-1837
FREG	1616-1875		1618-1875		1611-1876
HUNT					1604-1900
IGI			1604-1754
NBI					1604-1900

Census records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.

Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]

St Ives Poor Law Union, Huntingdonshire

Probate records[edit | edit source]

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Huntingdonshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-2. Date accessed: 13 August 2013.
↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 18 April 2014.
↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
↑ 'Huntingdonshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 17 April 2014.
↑ 'Huntingdonshire Burials,' FindMyPast (WayBack Machine), accessed 26 April 2014.
↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Huntingdon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 21 April 2014.
↑ 'National Burial Index - Huntingdonshire Coverage,' FindMyPast (WayBack Machine), accessed 17 April 2014.

[1] John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870-2. Date accessed: 13 August 2013.

[2] 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 18 April 2014.

[3] Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.

[4] 'Huntingdonshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 17 April 2014.

[5] 'Huntingdonshire Burials,' FindMyPast (WayBack Machine), accessed 26 April 2014.

[6] Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Huntingdon, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 21 April 2014.

[7] 'National Burial Index - Huntingdonshire Coverage,' FindMyPast (WayBack Machine), accessed 17 April 2014.

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