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"ELM is an extensive parish and village in the Isle of Ely, on the Wisbech canal, on the borders of Norfolk, 2 miles south, south-east from Wisbech, 9 from March and 87 north from London, in the Wisbech hundred, union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Wisbech, and in the diocese of Ely. The Coldham station of the London and North Eastern railway is in this parish."
"Under the provisions of the Allotment Act of 1882, land in this parish is let out in allotments, viz. on the vicar's glebe, 9 acres 3 roods, divided into allotments of 1 rood each, and 27 acres granted by the trustees of the Elm United Charities, let out in unequal allotments. The soil is loamy; the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are wheat and oats, with potatoes and fruit in large quantities. The area, including Coldham and Friday Bridge, is 11,355 acres of land and 35 of water; the population in 1921 was 2,738 in the civil and 1,383 in the ecclesiastical parish."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office and also in the Wisbech Library. In addition the 1841 and 1851 Census for Elm is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of All Saints is a large building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower with small spire containing 6 bells: the church has been restored: the chancel was renovated internally in 1875, and further repairs and improvements were carried out in 1908 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: there are 468 sittings, all free. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £525, with residence, and including 20 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and held since 1920 by the Rev. Edgar Horwood Van Cooten B.A. of London University. Near the church is a memorial to the men of this parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel here."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Elm, All Saints: Records of baptisms 1539-1914, marriages 1539-1973, burials 1539-1974, banns for 1754-1812 and 1837-1976 reside in the Wisbech Museum. Photocopies and microfilm copies of baptisms, marriages, burials and basnss reside in the Cambridge Record Office.The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1600-39 and 1661-1861 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
The baptisms for Elm 1814-15 can be found on Glen Lamb's website.
Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for the Wisbech Wesleyan Circuit of which Elm is part.
The "1839 Pigot's Directory of Cambridgeshire" for Elm index of Inns & Hotels, Taverns and Public Houses, Brewers & Maltsters + Wine & Spirit Merchants.
The Elm War Memorial has been transcribed and researched.
BEGDALE, 1 mile, is in the parish.
COLDHAM, including STAGSHOLT and PEARTHEE HILL, is now a separate ecclesiastical parish, and will be found under the heading of "COLDHAM."
FRIDAY BRIDGE has also a separate heading.
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
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 1798-1803, 1935-48; records for the years 1798-99 exist on microfilm at the Huntingdon Record Office.
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[Last updated 20 March 2003 Martin Edwards]