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FULBOURN

"FULBOURN is a consolidated parish and village, with a station on the Cambridge and Newmarket section of the Great Eastern railway, 5 miles east-south-east from Cambridge, in the Eastern division on the county, hundred of Flendish, Bottisham petty sessional division, union of Chesterton, Cambridge county court district, rural deanery of Quy and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely: it includes two parishes, viz. All Saints' and St. Vigor's.

"The soil is loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 5,263 acres; rateable value, £10,189; the population in 1891 was 1,807, including 496 inmates at the asylum.

FULBOURN VALLEY is 1-and-a-quarter miles south.
NEW SHARDELOWES is 1-and-a-half mile south-east."
[Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire 1900]

PARISHES

"Both churches stood in the same churchyard, but on Sunday, 25th May, 1766, at about 5 a.m. the tower of All Saints' church fell and totally ruined the building; 3 of the 5 bells were lying in the ruins in May, 1774, but the oak benches and fittings had been stolen: the church was eventually taken down under the authority of an Act of Parliament; all the parochial assessments are united, but each parish appoints its own officers, and the livings are consolidated."
[Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire 1900]

• All Saints
• St Vigor

INFORMATION RELATED TO ALL OF FULBOURN

Cemeteries

The cemetery 1937-70, monumental inscriptions 1893-1985, City of Refuge Baptist churchyard 1856-64, the Independent churchyard 1701-1983 and Fulbourn St Vigor (includes All Saints) churchyard 1682-1984 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. Transcripts of these are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.

Census

The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Fulbourn is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.

Church History

"The Congregational chapel, built in 1821, will seat 500 persons."
[Kelly's Directory - 1900]

Church Records

Independent Church

Independent Church: Records exist for births 1816-17, 1831-36 (on microfilm) plus indexed transcriptions of births 1816-17 at the Cambridge Record Office.

Description and Travel

"The Working Men's Institute has a lending library of 900 volumes and a reading room, supplied with daily and weekly papers and magazines.

There are eight almhouses, erected by subcription in 1864. The charities are as follows: £78 yearly from Careway's Charity, for clothing; £110 yearly from Bishop's Charity, for flour; £27 yearly from Farmer's Charity, the greater part of which is distributed amongst the poor who regularly attend church; and a sum of £12, given by Thomas Oslar, in 1722, to purchase an acre of land for a perpetual charity for the poor widows of St. Vigor's parish, the profits of which are distributed on St. Thomas' Day. A new pumping station of the Cambridge Water Works Company, erected as an auxiliary to the works at Cherry Hinton, was opened in March, 1891, at a cost of £2,000. The annual fair, formerly held here on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following the first Sunday after Trinity, is now held, by Order in Council dated 19th June, 1883, on the Monday and Tuesday only. The Rev. Charles Francis Townley M.A., Joseph Chaplin esq. and the rector are the principal landowners. Fulbourn Manor is the residence of the Hon. Lady Tryon: the house stands in its own grounds of 9 acres, and is surrounded by a well-wooded park of about 78 acres."
[Kelly's Directory - 1900]

One of the best landmarks is Fulbourn Windmill. This smock mill was built in 1808 and is now being restored.

Military History

The Fulbourn War Memorial has been transcribed and researched.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

"The County Lunatic Asylum, opened Nov. 2, 1858, is a structure of brick in the Elizabethan style, from plans by Mr. Fowler Jones, architect, of York, & was erected at a cost of about £40,000: it has since been considerably enlarged & in 1900 had 550 patients; attached are 87 acres of land, a consecrated cemetry, gas works, brewhouse & farm buildings."
[Kelly's Directory - 1900]

Records are held in the Cambridge Record Office for Fulbourn Mental Hospital burials 1901-53, deaths 1907-69 and deaths of patients from Three Counties Hospital (Arlesey, Bedfordshire) for 1939-50.

Fulbourn Hospital has been known by many names - Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Asylum (1858 - 1921), Cambridgeshire County Asylum (1921 - 1954), Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Borough of Cambridge Mental Hospital (1948 - 1954). The Fulbourn Hospital archive is vast and relatively complete. Some of the records bear evidence of a fire which apparently occurred in one of the doctor's rooms. Records include the main record of inmates, the admission and discharge registers from 1858. A more authoritative guide to covering dates is given in the Hospital Records Database. The Hospital's administrative records date from 1848 and there are records of various dates relating medical care of inmates, staff, finance, plans and photographs. There is no detailed catalogue to the records.

The Hospital Records Database shows the following records exist in the Cambridge Record Office, whether they are available for access and the dates they cover.

Taxation

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 1762-3, 1789-1837, 1880-92 and 1911-48.

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[Last updated: 27 April 2006 Martin Edwards]