Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

Eynesbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Lancelynsbury, Wheald, Weald, Lansbury, and Lanslingbury.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1538
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Methodist, and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Little Barford, Bedfordshire
• Toseland
• Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire
• Abbotsley
• Waresley
• Croxton, Cambridgeshire
• St Neots

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EYNESBURY, a parish in St. Neots district, Huntingdon; adjacent to St. Neots. It includes the hamlet of Weald; and its post town is St. Neots. Acres, 1, 249. Real property, £5, 910. Pop., 1, 314. Houses, 276. The manor belongs to the Earl of Sandwich. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Ely. Value, £429. Patron, the Earl of Sandwich. The church is good; and there are a P. Methodist chapel and a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

EYNESBURY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of St. Neot’s, hundred of Toseland, county of Huntingdon, ½ a mile (S.) from St. Neot’s; containing 1003 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £32. 3. 9.; net income, £429; patron, the Earl of Sandwich: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1797. The church was built in the reign of James II.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Huntingdonshire, Eynesbury – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Register of burials in the burial ground of Eynebury, Hunts., 1857-1905
Author: Eynesbury (Huntingdonshire)

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

England, Huntingdonshire, Eynesbury – Church records ( 3 )
The parish church of St. Mary Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire
Author: Huntingdonshire Family History Society

Record of members, ca. 1837-1858
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bedfordshire Conference

Record of members, Eynesbury Branch, Huntingdonshire, 1854
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Eynesbury Branch (Huntingdonshire)

England, Huntingdonshire, Eynesbury – History ( 1 )
The history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neot’s, in Huntingdonshire, and of St. Neot’s in the county of Cornwall : with some critical remarks respecting the two saxon saints from whom these places derived their names
Author: Gorham, George Cornelius

England, Huntingdonshire, Eynesbury – Schools ( 2 )
School log book of St. Mary’s Infant School, 1871-1920
Author: St. Mary’s Infant School (Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire)

School log books of Eynesbury National School, 1867-1925
Author: Eynesbury National School (Eynesbury, Huntingdon)

Administration

• County: Huntingdonshire
• Civil Registration District: St Neots
• Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
• Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
• Rural Deanery: St Neots
• Poor Law Union: St Neots
• Hundred: Toseland
• Province: Canterbury