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"CARLTON-CUM-WILLINGHAM is a village and parish, on the borders of Suffolk, 5 miles south-east from Six Mile Bottom station and 4½ south-south-east from Dullingham station, both on the Cambridge and Newmarket branch of the London and North Eastern railway, 7 south of Newmarket and 8 north-east from Linton, in the hundred of Radfield, union and petty sessional division of Linton, Newmarket county court district, rural deanery of Cheveley and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The soil is various; subsoil, clay, chalk and gravel. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 2,415 acres; the population in 1921 was 254. By an Order which came into operation March 25th, 1886, a detached part of Brinkley, in the Newmarket union, was amalgamated with this parish."
"Willingham Green is a place in the parish."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St Peter are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office for the years 1730-1978. These inscriptions are also available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Carlton-Cum-Willingham is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Peter is a small but ancient building of rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave and a western turret containing 2 bells : there are 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1600."
[Kelly's Directory- Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Carlton-Cum-Willingham, St Peter: Records of baptisms 1588- circa 1594, 1610-17, 1712-15, 1726-2001, marriages 1617-42, 1652, 1712-15, 1726-1987, burials 1712-15, 1726-2001 and banns for 1754-1805, 1823-1992 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1812 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Transcripts are available for marriages from the Bishop's Transcripts 1599-1812 and indexed transcriptions of baptisms 1588-1851, marriages 1599-1837 and burials 1599-1812. Transcripts of the registers are available on microfiche for the years 1588-1851 from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society bookstall.
The Carlton War Memorial has been transcribed and and the men researched.
Land Tax: records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside in the Cambridge Record Office for the years 1759-63, 1789-1846 and 1865-1948.
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[Last updated 20 March 2003 Martin Edwards]