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WHITTLESEY REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Cambridgeshire.
Created
: 1.7.1837.
Sub-districts : St. Ives, Somersham, Swavesey, Warboys.
GRO volumes : XIV (1837–51), 3b (1852–1946), 4A (1946–74).
Registers now held by : Peterborough and Cambridgeshire (March).

Table 1: List of Places in Whittlesey Registration District

The Cambridgeshire parish in Ely registration district became part of the new county of Isle of Ely on 1.4.1889.
All the parishes in Isle of Ely became part of the new county of Cambridgeshire & Isle of Ely on 1.4.1965.

Civil Parish

County

From

To

Comments

St. Mary & St. Andrew

Cambridgeshire

1837

1889

Abolished 1894 and divided into the parishes of Whittlesey Urban and Whittlesey Rural. See also Table 2, note (a).

Isle of Ely

1889

1894

Stanground North

Isle of Ely

1934

1965

See Table 2, notes (b) and (c).

Thorney

Isle of Ely

1934

1965

See Table 2, notes (b) and (c).

Whittlesey

Isle of Ely

1926

1965

Created 1.10.1926 from the parishes of Whittlesey Urban and Whittlesey Rural.

Cambridgeshire & Isle of Ely

1965

1974

Whittlesey Rural

Isle of Ely

1894

1926

Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of St. Mary & St. Andrew. Abolished 1.10.1926 and incorporated into the parish of Whittlesey.

Whittlesey Urban

Isle of Ely

1894

1926

Created 1894 from the part of the parish of St. Mary & St. Andrew in Whittlesey Urban District. Abolished 1.10.1926 and incorporated into the parish of Whittlesey.

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Whittlesey Registration District

Date of Change

Note

Description of Change

Population transferred

25.3.1883

(a)

Gained a detached part of the parish of St. Mary & St. Andrew (which until 25.3.1883 formed a detached part of the parish of Stanground) from Peterborough registration district.

11 in 1891

1.1.1934

(b)

Gained the parishes of Stanground North and Thorney from Peterborough registration distirct.

2151 in 1931

1.4.1965

(c)

Lost the parishes of Stanground North and Thorney to Peterborough registration distirct.

2159 in 1961


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