Yaxley, Huntingdonshire Genealogy

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

Parish History

Yaxley (St. Peter), is a parish, in the union of Peterborough, and the hundred of Norman-Cross, Huntingdonshire, 1½ miles N E from Stilton. There is a place of worship for Independents.[1]

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.

Church records

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

FREG = FreeREG - free[2]
NBI = National Burial Index (FindMyPast) - (£)[3]
Yaxley, Huntingdonshire Genealogy Parish Online Records

Baptisms
Marriages
Burials

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FREG 1653-1844
1653-1754
1653-1809
NBI

1801-1900

Census records

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.


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.

Websites

References

  1. Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848 Date accessed and adapted 22 August 2013.
  2. 'Huntingdonshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 17 April 2014.
  3. 'National Burial Index - Huntingdonshire Coverage,' FindMyPast (WayBack Machine), accessed 18 April 2014.