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2. Principal Libraries with Family History resources
Local Studies Collection
Central Library
Broadway
Peterborough
PE1 1RX
Tel: 01733 348343
Fax: 01733 555277
Email: [email protected]
Contact: Enquiry Services Librarian: Local Studies
Opening hours:
Monday: 0900-1900
Tuesday: 0900-1900
Wednesday: 0900-1900
Thursday: 0900-2000
Friday: 0900-1900
Saturday: 0900-1800
Sunday: 1030-1830 (limited service)
Other Libraries:
3. Research Service
Service available?
Yes
Fee-based?
Yes. Initial 15/20 minutes are free, thereafter charges apply.
Provided by local Record Office?
Peterborough Archives Service: Initial 15/20 minutes are free, thereafter charges apply.
4. Births, Deaths and Marriages
Registrar General's Indexes from 1837 (microform), or Registrar General for Scotland's Computerised Index from 1855.
Locations
GRO Index 1837-1925
5. Census returns
Peterborough Registration District: 1841-1901
Stamford Registration District: 1841(part), 1851-1901
Oundle R.D. 1851-1901
Whittlesey 1861-1901
1881 UK Census on CD-Rom
6. Directories
6(a) County and Regional Directories
Cambridgeshire (1800s) 1830, 1851, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1888, 1892
Cambridgeshire (1900s) 1904, 1908, 1912, 1925, 1929, 1933, 1937
Huntingdon (1800s) 1830, 1839, 1847, 1854, 1855, 1862, 1869, 1877, 1885, 1890, 1894
Huntingdon (1900s) 1903, 1906, 1914, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1936
Lincolnshire (1800s) 1835, 1841, 1842, 1856, 1876, 1885, 1889, 1896
Lincolnshire (1900s) 1900, 1913, 1919, 1926, 1933, 1937
Northamptonshire (1800s) 1830, 1841, 1847, 1849, 1864, 1869, 1874, 1877, 1884, 1890, 1894, 1898
Northamptonshire (1900s) 1903, 1906, 1910, 1914, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1931, 1936, 1940
6(b) City and Town Directories
Peterborough & Area (1800s) 1876, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898
Peterborough and Area (1900s) 1901, 1907, 1912, 1922, 1925, 1927
Peterborough City only (1900s) 1940, 1952, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969
Stamford and Area (1900s) 1927, 1932, 1934, 1941, 1953, 1958, 1961, 1969
Oundle and Area (1900s) 1906, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1937
6(c) Telephone Directories
Peterborough Area 1932, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939 (classified only), 1953 (classified only), 1958, 1960, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995
7. Electoral registers and polls books
7(a) Electoral Registers
Peterborough Municipal Borough 1852, 1854 (microfilm), 1858-1868 (microfilm), 1878, 1885 (microfilm), 1951-1973
Peterborough Parlimentary Division:
North Northamptonshire 1918-1931, 1937-1938 (on microfilm)
Peterborough City Council Area 1974 to 2002
Old Fletton Urban District 1950, 1957-1973
Huntingdonshire (various parishes adjoining Peterborough) 1959, 1970 to 2002
7(b) Poll Books
Cambridgeshire 1857, 1868
Huntingdonshire 1857
Lincolnshire 1818, 1823
Northamptonshire 1702, 1705, 1730, 1748, 1806, 1832
Peterborough City 1837, 1852 (2), 1853, 1857, 1859, 1865, 1868
8. International Genealogical Index (IGI)
1992. Microfiche edition, covering England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Eire, Channel Islands and Isle of Man
9. Unpublished Indexes
NB. Photocopies of indexes held by Northants and Hunts Record Offices
Soke of Peterborough: Bishops Transcripts for 6 parishes.
Parish Registers for Peterborough St John the Baptist 1559-1812
Census 1851 for City of Peterborough; 1841-1891 for Werrington.
Monumental Inscriptions for Paston, Werrington and Eye
Huntingdonshire: MIs for 8 northern border parishes.
Lincolnshire: MIs for 4 southern border parishes
10. Parish Registers
NB microfilm copies of those registers no longer in use and deposited at the appropriate CRO.
Soke of Peterborough: all parishes except Longthorpe, Peterborough St Paul, Werrington
Lincolnshire: 11 southern border parishes
Cambridgeshire: Thorney and Whittlesey
Huntingdonshire: 10 northern border parishes
Northamptonshire: 10 northeastern border parishes only
11. Periodicals (excl. newspapers)
12. Published Transcripts of Archival Material
Soke of Peterborough: parish registers: extracts for Maxey, marriages for Glinton, Northborough, Peakirk and Castor.
Census: 1851 for Peterborough Registration District
Northamptonshire: Wills: 1510-1652; 1710-1800 (all for the Archdeaconry of Northampton). Visitations: 1564, 1618/9 and 1681.
Huntingdonshire: Marriage Index (whole county) 1601-1837.
Census Enumerators Books (northern border parishes only): 1841, 1851 & 1891.
Wills 1479-1652 (Archdeaconry of Huntingdon).
Visitations 1613 and 1684
Lincolnshire:Marriage Index (southern border parishes only, 1700-1837); Census 1851-1891 (whole county)
Wills 1280-1547, 1320-1600, 1660-1700, 1801-1858
Cambridgeshire:Parish Registers: Thorney.
Census Enumerators Books: 1851 (for Thorney and surname index for Isle of Ely only); 1851-1871 (for Whittlesey).
13. Other material
Wills from northern Deaneries of the Diocese of Peterborough proved by Peterborough Consistory Court, 1820-1858 (film).
PCC will indexes 1701-1800
National Probate Indexes 1858-1943
14. Guides to Collections
15. Local Record Offices
Peterborough Archives Service
Central Library
Peterborough
PE1 1RX
Tel: 01733 742700
Northamptonshire Record Office
Wootton Hall Park
Northampton
NN4 9BQ
Tel: 01604 762129
Huntingdon Record Office
Grammar School Walk
Huntingdon
Peterborough
PE18 6LF
Tel: 01480 375842
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