Great Wilbraham Cambridgeshire Family History Guide

Great Wilbraham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cambridgeshire.

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Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1561
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WILBRAHAM (Great,) a parish, with a village, in Chesterton district, Cambridgeshire; 1½ mile E by N of Fulbourn r. station, and 6 E by S of Cambridge. It has a post-office under Cambridge. Acres, 2,800. Real property, £4,181. Pop., 596. Houses, 129. The manor belonged anciently to the Knights Templars; and, with the Temple, belongs now to E. Hicks, Esq. The living is a vicarage in thee diocese of Ely. Value, £203. Patron, E. Hicks, Esq. The church is ancient. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

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England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Nicholas Parish Church, Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, monumental inscriptions, 1790-1980
Author: Cambridgeshire Family History Society

England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Great Wilbraham, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Great Wilbraham, 1599-1857
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Wilbraham (Cambridgeshire)

Marriage transcripts, 1600-1751
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Wilbraham (Cambridgeshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Little Wilbraham (Cambridgeshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1561-1851
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Wilbraham (Cambridgeshire); Layng, T. P. R (Thomas Peter Royson), 1901-1985

Parish registers for Great Wilbraham, 1561-1881
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Wilbraham (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Great Wilbraham, Cambs., Eng

England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – Court records ( 1 )
Manorial court books of Great Wilbraham, Cambridge Co., 1754-1865
Author: Manor of Great Wilbraham Court (Cambridge)

England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – History ( 2 )
Great Wilbraham
Author: Rushworth, Gillian

A history of the Wilbraham parishes (Great and Little) in the county of Cambridge
Author: Stokes, Henry Paine, 1849-1931

England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – Land and property ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Great Wilbraham, 1759-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

England, Cambridgeshire, Great Wilbraham – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Great Wilbraham, 1759-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cambridgeshire)

Administration

  • County: Cambridgeshire
  • Civil Registration District: Chesterton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Ely (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Camps
  • Poor Law Union: Chesterton
  • Hundred: Staine
  • Province: Canterbury