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== Websites  ==
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Revision as of 10:29, 15 July 2014

England  Gotoarrow.png  Cambridgeshire Gotoarrow.png  Cambridgeshire Parishes

Guide to Over, Cambridgeshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Over, Cambridgeshire
Type Ancient Parish
Civil Jurisdictions
Hundred Papworth
County Cambridgeshire
Poor Law Union St Ives
Registration District St Ives
Records begin
Parish registers: 1577
Bishop's Transcripts: 1599
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Chesterton
Diocese Ely
Province Canterbury
Legal Jurisdictions
Probate Court Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
Location of Archive
Cambridgeshire Record Office

Parish History[edit | edit source]

OVER (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St. Ives, hundred of Papworth, county of Cambridge, 4½ miles (E. by S.) from St. Ives. There is a place of worship for Baptists.[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]

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 Cambridgeshire 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]

Over on GENUKI

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Samuel A. Lewis,A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 495-498. Date accessed and adapted: 10 July 2013.