Chatteris, Cambridgeshire Family History Guide
Chatteris is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.
Other places in the parish include: The Adventurers Hall Wood.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1614
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Calvinist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Countess of Huntingdon Methodist, General Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
Adjacent Parishes
- Witcham
- Mepal
- Somersham
- Welches Dam
- Sutton
- Doddington
- Warboys
- Colne
- Witchford
- Wimblington
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHATTERIS, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of North Witchford, Cambridge. The town stands on the west border of the isle of Ely, near the Cambridge and Wisbeach railway, 10½ miles NNE of St. Ives; and has a station on the railway, a post office under March, a banking office, two chief inns, and a weekly market on Friday. It was known at Domesday as Ceterig or Caterig; and has ever since possessed some local importance; but was not made a market-town till 1834. A Benedictine nunnery was founded at it, in 980, by Alfwen, niece of King Edgar; annexed, in the time of Henry I., to the church of Ely; and given, at the dissolution, to the Clintons. An ancient manor-house now stands on the nunnery’s site. The parish comprises 15,090 acres. Real property, £37,460. Pop., 4,731. Houses, 1,070. Much of the land is fenny; much has been highly improved; part is common; and 284 acres are devoted to the poor. A hermitage, the burial-place of St. Hunna, was at Hunny farm. British relics were found, in 1757, in a barrow, and many Roman coins have been ploughed up. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £1,500. Patron, W. Hawkins, Esq. The church is a handsome structure with a square tower. There are seven chapels for Independents, Baptists, Methodists. and Quakers.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch Catalog
Census
Census returns for Chatteris, 1841-1891
Church Records
Computer printout of Chatteris, Cambs., Eng
Computer printout of Chatteris, New Chapel Baptist Church, Cambs., Eng
Computer printout of Chatteris, Wesleyan, Cambs., Eng
Cemeteries
Chatteris - disused burial ground : schedule of gravestones
Monumental inscriptions, Cambridge, England
Court Records
Manor court records of Foxton, 1709-1896 Author: Manor of Foxton. Court (Cambridge)
Occupations
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Taxation
Schools
School records of Chatteris School, 1914-1925 Author: Chatteris School (Chatteris, Cambridgeshire)
History
We’re the characters now : the oral history of a small Fenland town Author: Oosthuizen, Susan
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Cambridgeshire
- Civil Registration District: North Witchford
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Ely
- Rural Deanery: Ely
- Poor Law Union: North Witchford
- Hundred: North Witchford
- Province: Canterbury