1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Welney St Mary |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Welney is one those anomalies, it being
partly in Cambridgeshire and partly in Norfolk. Today the village of Welney
lies wholly in Norfolk following 1970s boundary changes. The parish, therefore,
sits in the extreme southwest of the county and Welney sits on the A1101
road which connects the Cambridgeshire market town of Wisbech with the
small city of Ely being roughly 9 miles from either. Welney today is a
linear village spreading along the A1101 and the B1100 which runs westward
from it. The village sits on the western banks of the Old Bedford River,
the ambitious drainage scheme designed to hold flood waters between the
twin banks. Today that space is occupied by Sir Peter Scott's Wildfowl
and Wetlands Trust reserve a winter haven for wild swans & ducks.
The surrounding area is classic Fenland, vast skies over the flat landscape
which stands at sea level and even slightly below in some places. The
area was much more populated at the time of this transcript as can be
seen from the number of baptisms recorded. |
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Three register books cover the period of this transcript. The first of 800 entries, the latter two both of 1600; the third register runs onwards to complete in 1904. The registers for Welney are deposited with Cambridgeshire Archives as References KP163/1/4, KP163/1/5 & KP163/1/6. The registers up until 1876 are also available to view on Familysearch but only at an LDS Family History Centre. As Cambridgeshire Archives was closed for its move to Ely at the time of this compilation those images were used and the period completed from Bishop's Transcripts available at Norfolk Record Office. Across such a long transcript there are bound to be variations in handwriting and image quality but an overall rating would be satisfactory. |
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