Orton Waterville, Huntingdonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History

Orton-Waterville, or Overton (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Peterborough, and hundred of Norman-Cross, Huntingdonshire, 3 miles S W from Peterborough. 

Resources

Civil Registration

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.

Probate records

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

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

• England Jurisdictions 1851
• Vision of Britain