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"DULLINGHAM is a parish and village, with station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern railway, 68 miles fron London, 4 south-west from Newmarket and 10 east from Cambridge, in the hundred of Radfield. Union, petty sessional division and county court district of Newmarket, rural deanery of Cheveley and arch deaconry and diocese of Elv."
"The soil is various; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,387 acres; the population in 1921 was 645."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]*Note: Dullingham is now in the Deanery of Linton
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. Mary for the years 1706-1984 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. These monumental transcripts are 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 Dullingham is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
" The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: in the chancel are several fine monuments to the Jeaffreson family, dating from 1733, one of which bears a recumbent figure in white marble of Lieut.-General Christopher Jeaffreson, d. 22 Oct. 1824 there is also a tablet to Henrietta, wife of Anthony 11th Viscount Gormanston, and subsequently of Lieut. General Christopher Jeaffreson, d. 6 Feb. 1826: the church was restored during the period 1884-90, at cost of £68o, and an organ provided at a further cost of £200, and in 1899 the oak roof was repaired at cost of £800 : a pulpit of Grecian marble was presented in 1905 by A. C. W. Dunn-Gardner esq, of Denston Hall, Suffolk, in memory of the late Mr. Dunn-Gardner: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558."
"There is a small Wesleyan Methodist chapel."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
Dullingham, St. Mary: Records of baptisms 1558-1908, marriages 1550-1962, burials 1558-1939 and banns 1754-1968 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Indexed transcripts for baptisms 1558-1873, marriages 1558-1869 and burials 1558-1869 also reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Parish register transcripts of Dullingham, St Mary, 1558-1873, are available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1651, 1662-1795 and 1800-1849 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for the Mildenhall Wesleyan Circuit of which Dullingham is part.
The Dullingham War Memorial has been transcribed and 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 1768, 1771, 1798 (on microfilm), 1829-32, 1878-88 and 1931-48.
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