The Littleport Society

		WILLIAM HARLEY DEDICATION - 101 YEARS
THE BARN - MAIN STREET - LITTLEPORT - ELY - CAMBS - CB6 1PH - UK

Photo-copies of registers
St. George's Parish Church, Littleport.

Baptisms	1 April 1599 to 7 November 1756 - many years missing, see note.
	14 March 1753 to 21 November 1948
Index of Baptisms	1599 to 1812 (currently being extended)
Marriages	26 May 1599 to 8 December 1756 - many years missing, see note.
	25 January 1813 to 10 December 1994
< of Index>	1599 to 1920 (currently being extended)
Banns	30 June 1754 to 7 March 1813
Burials	1 April 1599 to 27 December 1756 - many years missing, see note
	22 March 1756 to 25 December 1812
	6 January 1898 to 28 April 1954
Index of Burials	1599 to 1812

St. John's Parish Church, Little Ouse.

Baptisms	2 December 1860 to 2 April 1978 (currently being indexed)
Marriages	30 October 1869 to 15 June 1974
Index of Marriages	30 October 1869 to 15 June 1974
Burials	21 May 1869 to 27 December 1956

Littleport and District Wesleyan Methodist

Baptisms	1 May 1873 to 28 June 1934
Index of Baptisms	1 May 1873 to 28 June 1934

St. Matthew's Parish Church, Littleport

Baptisms	25 August 1878 to 22 November 1998
Marriages	8 July 1879 to 25 October 1997
Banns	20 September 1942 to 21 September 1997
(there are no burials at St. Matthew's)

Welney Parish Church

Baptisms	1737 to 1812
	1783 to 1785
	1813 to 1896
Burials	1737 to 1812
	1783 to 1786
	1813 to 1847
	1847 to 1895
Transcript of Marriages	1813 to 1895 (now indexed)

Simon Sparrow's Burial Book	containing all graves dug by the Parish Gravedigger, giving name of deceased, date of burial, age at death, and name of undertaker, together with occasional notes.

Burials	25 September 1909 to 29 December 1916
	2 January 1920 to 17 January 1953

Population Census 1801	giving names of heads of households, and number of people present in each dwelling, but no street names or other means of identification.

Microform Data

Microfilm of Census taken in Littleport	1841
	1851 - plus microfiche of indexed transcript
	1861, 1871, and 1881

Note - some of the above films also contain details of neighbouring Parishes, for instance

Little Downham. A complete list has yet to be made

Microfiche of Census taken in Littleport	1891 - this does also include Little Downham, as well as the small parts of Westmoor which were in Ely St. Mary and Ely Holy Trinity.

Ely St. Mary's Parish Church Registers
Indexed Transcripts on Microfiche
Baptisms	1599 to 1800
Marriages	1667 to 1880
Banns	1763 to 1880
Burials	1599 to 1881

Cambridgeshire - CENSUS 1851	Indexed Transcripts on Microfiche for the following Parishes
	(Some of these are Bruce's own copies!) CarIton Cottenham Ely Holy Trinity Ely St. Mary Great Wilbraham Histon Impington Little Downham Little Wilbraham Littleport Mepal Orwell Outwell and Welney Rampton Soham Tadlow Waterbeach Weston Colville

In addition to the above, Members are working on other projects, including	Putting the data onto computer in order to produce an indexed transcript of Simon Sparrow's Burial Book. Transcribing the Ely and District Primitive Methodist Baptismal Registers for the period 1826 to 1923, in order to produce an indexed transcript. Producing an indexed transcript of the Survey of Gravestones in St. George's Parish Churchyard, Littleport which was made by pupils of the Littleport Village College Secondary School, shortly before the removal of many of those gravestones in 1980. Continually adding to The Society's database of local Family Trees which now contains over 30,323 names in 265 different Trees (around 100 are fragmentary), with 363 links between those Family Trees.

Note: Missing years of Transcripts - 1601, 1665, 1670, 1671, 1672, 1673, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1682, 1686, 1689, 1690, 1693, 1717, 1725.

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