Huntingdonshire

These family history resources and links to records available online will help you to find your Huntingdonshire ancestors.

Archives

• Huntingdonshire Archives

Births, Marriages, Deaths & Parish Records

• Huntingdonshire Parish Registers 1538–1983

  Includes christening, marriage and burial records.

• Huntingdonshire Burials 1538–1900

  Search over 228,000 records.

• Find a Grave

  Has records from 87 Huntingdonshire district locations.

• National Burial Index

  Search over 260,000 burial records from Huntingdonshire.

• Upwood Parish Registers 1700–1950 Archived

  The website is now archived but the links to download the PDFs of the records still work.

• Eaton Socon Burials 1813–1840 Archived
• Huntingdonshire Marriage Index 1754–1837
• Phillimore Parish Marriages
  • Bury 1561–1837
  • Little Ravely 1577–1839
  • Ramsey 1559–1837
  • Wistow 1604–1837

Census Records

• Census 1841–1921

  Search the census for Huntingdonshire from 1841–1921, and the 1939 Register all at once.

• FreeCen

  Has a good selection of free records to search and view.

Historical Directories

With a description of each town/parish, its residents and businesses.

• Slater's Directory of Huntingdonshire 1850
• Kelly's Huntingdonshire Directory 1885
• St. Ives Historical Directories

  Various years available, with people from St Ives listed.

Local History

• Huntingdonshire Place Names

  Find out the origins and/or meaning of towns and villages.

• Lost Pubs in Huntingdonshire

  Find out which pubs have closed down, when they closed, who ran them, and sometimes a photo.

Societies & Forums

• Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Family History Society

  The family history society covering Huntingdonshire. Membership gives access to their database with over 4 million records.

• Huntingdonshire Genealogy Forum

  Connect with others researching their family tree in the area.

Wills & Probate

• Calendars of Huntingdonshire Wills 1479–1652

  An alphabetical list of names in an online book.

• Government Probate Index 1858–2019

  There are more than 20,600 probate records for Huntingdonshire in this collection.

Workhouses

Records from three Huntingdonshire workhouses are available online. You can see staff from the 1881 census, long-term inmates from 1861 and inmates from 1881.

• Huntingdon Workhouse
• St Ives Workhouse
• St Neots Workhouse

Additional Records

• School Admission Registers 1870–1914

  Search more than 12,000 records of students in Huntingdonshire.