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"GIRTON is a parish and village, on a feeder of the Ouse, close to the road from Cambridge to Huntingdon, 2 miles south-west from Histon station on the St. Ives and Cambridge line of the London and North Eastern railway and 2½ north-west from Cambridge, in the hundred of North Stowe, union of Chesterton, petty sessional division and county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of North Stowe and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The soil is principally heavy ; the subsoil, clay, producing excellent crops of all descriptions of grain. The area is 1,681 acres ; the population in 1921 was 642."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. Andrew for the years 1777-1985 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office and 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 Girton is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Andrew is a building of rubble and stone in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 4 bells: there are piscinæ in the chancel and south aisle: the south porch has a parvise of later date and a turret with door at the south-west angle the tower is a heavy structure carried on three arches with a polygonal tower reaching half way up on the southern face: there are brasses in the church to former rectors, with effigies in processional vestments, dated respectively 1497 and 1492: the church was restored in 1853 and the chancel decorated about 1899: through the bequest of Miss Coombe, the daughter of a former rector, the church was completely restored and a new organ installed in 1926-7, at 5 cost of £2,000: there are 210 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1629; marriages, 1630. A memorial of Portland stone in the churchyard bears the names of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18."
"There is a Baptist chapel here."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Girton, St. Andrew: Records of baptisms 1630-1983, marriages 1630-1996, burials 1630-1986 and banns 1754-1811, 1824-1987 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1640, 1662-1852 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts exist in the Cambridge Record Office for baptisms, marriages, and burials 1599-1908.
The transcripts from the bishop's transcripts and parish register, 1599-1908, are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
The Girton War Memorial has been transcribed and researched.
"Girton College, incorporated in 1924 by royal charter, was first opened at Hitchin in 1869 and removed to its present buildings in October, 1873: they are of plain red brick, on the Huntingdon road, about 1½ miles from Cambridge, and were erected by voluntary contributions: the charge for board, lodgings and tuition is £50 per term. In the course of the year ending June, 1928, there were 182 students in residence."
[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 (on microfilm), 1829-32 and 1880-1948.
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[Last updated 3 October 2003 Martin Edwards]