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"HAUXTON is a parish on the banks of the river Cam and the London road, about 1 mile north-east from Harston station on the Hitchin and Cambridge branch of the London and North Eastern railway, and 4 miles south-south-west from Cambridge, in the hundred of Thriplow, union of Chesterton, petty sessional division and county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Barton and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. "
"The soil is chalky and clay; subsoil, chalk arid clay. The chief crops are wheat and oats. The area is 592 acres of land and 9 of water: the population in 1921 was 260 in the civil parish and 457 in the ecclesiastical parish."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. Edmund, for the years 1727-1980, 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 Hauxton is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Edmund, erected about 1130, is an edifice of clunch and rubble in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled Perpendicular western tower of rubble and masonry containing 3 bells: the north and south doorways and the chancel arch are Norman: the font consists of an octagonal basin on five shafts: there is a Decorated piscina and a plain sedile: the pulpit is partly constructed of old Perpendicular woodwork: on the south side of the chancel arch, within an arched recess, is a fresco of the 13th century representing St. Thomas a Becket and in excellent preservation: the church was restored about 1862 : Dowsing, the great enemy of ecclesiastical art in the 17th century, came here, 13th March, 1643, and destroyed a crucifix, three Popish pictures and a brass inscription: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1560."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Hauxton, St. Edmund: Records of baptisms 1561-1995, marriages 1560-1990, burials 1560-1993 and banns 1756-1876 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Indexed transcripts for the same years as the registers, except baptism which only go to the year 1842, also reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Transcripts of the registers are available for the years 1560-1842 on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society bookstall. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1802 and 1813-74 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
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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