These family history resources and links to records available online will help you to find your Huntingdonshire ancestors.
Archives
BMDs & 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
The website is now archived but the links to download the PDFs of the records still work. - Eaton Socon Burials 1813-1840
Marriages
- Huntingdonshire Marriage Index 1754-1837
- 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.
Forums
- Huntingdonshire Genealogy Forum
The forum can help you connect with others researching their family tree in the area.
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 only 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 the pubs, and sometimes a photo of the pub.
School Records
- School Admission Registers 1870-1914
Search more than 12,000 records of students in Huntingdonshire.
Societies
- CHFHS
The original Huntingdonshire family society is now part of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society. Membership gives access to their database with over 4 million records.
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
There are records from 3 workhouses in Huntingdonshire available. You’ll be able to see staff from the 1881 census, long-term inmates from 1861 and inmates from 1881.