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"GREAT WILBRAHAM is a parish and village, 2 miles south from the Cambridge and Newmarket road, 1½ east by north from Fulbourn station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern railway and 7 east from Cambridge, in the hundred of Staine, Bottisham petty sessional division, union of Chesterton, county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Quy and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The soil is various; subsoil, stone and clunch. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 2,921 acres ; the population in 1921 was 444."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. Nicholas are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office for the years 1720-1982 which are also available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall. There is also a private graveyard which also has Monumental Inscriptions for the years 1705-1920.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Great Wilbraham is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient building of flint, principally in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower of Perpendicular date with pinnacles, and containing a clock and 5 bells the chancel retains a piscina and sedilia and a curious aumbry: the font, which dates from the year 1150, is Transition Norman: in the chancel are inscribed tablets to the Ward family from 1719: at the west end are some ancient tombstones; the church, with the exception of the nave and north transept, was restored in 1878-9, at a cost of £800, and the tower in 1882-3, at a cost of about £600: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1561."
"The church like that of Wendy in this county, was originally given to the monks of Ely, but they, for some consideration, made it over to the Knights Templars, who made a habitation here for some of their order: the estates were afterwards passed over to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. There is a small Baptist chapel here."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Great Wilbraham, St. Nicholas: Records of baptisms 1561-1987, marriages 1561-1618, 1631-48, 1668-1999, burials 1561-74, 1581-1651, 1661-1956, banns for 1754-1816, 1889-1976 reside in the Cambridge Record Office.The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1857 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts exist in Cambridge Record Office for baptisms and burials 1561-1851, and marriages 1561-1837.
There are two war memorials in Great Wilbraham, St Nicholas War Memorial and the Memorial Hall War Memorial have 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 1757-63, 1789-1837, 1881-93 and 1911-1948.
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[Last updated 1 October 2008 Martin Edwards]