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"HILDERSHAM is a parish and pretty village on the river Granta, 1½ miles north-west from Linton station on the Cambridge and Melford branch of the London and North Eastern railway, 9 south-east from Cambridge, in the hundred of Chilford, union and petty sessional division of Linton, county court district Of Saffron Walden, rural deanery of Camps, and archdenconry and diocese of Ely."
"Hildersham Hall, the property and seat of Lady Miller, stands in a park consisting of 70 acres, well wooded and containing a piece of ornamental water. James Binney esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravel and chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops ace wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,511 acres; the population in 1921 was 155."
[Kellys Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions for Holy Trinity's churchyard, 1754-1981, are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. These inscriptions are also 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 Hildersham is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of the Holy Trinity is a building of rubble, chiefly in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south chantry, south porch and a western tower of Early English date containing 3 bells, presented to the church by the sisters of the rector: in the chantry are two oaken effigies of Sir William Busteler and his wife, and some fine brasses to their descendants, Robert de Paris, of Caermarthen, ob. 1379, and his widow Alianora, with kneeling effigies beside a floriated cross; and to Henry Paris esq. ob. 1456, with effigy in full armour under a mutilated canopy ; there is also a small brass with knightly effigy in plate armour to Henry Paris, ob 1427, and a skeleton figure in shroud, circa 1530: the tower and sacristy date from the 12th century, and the former contains an ancient ladder; there is an early octagonal font: the stained east window is a memorial to the late Rev. Charles Goodwin M.A. rector from 1806, and patron, and Sarah his wife: in the north and south aisles are four fine stained windows of the 14th century, and there are others inserted in 1885, and also containing fragments of glass of ancient date: the reredos of alabaster, executed from a design by Mr C. A. Buckler, architect, was a memorial gift to the church: the nave and chancel were new roofed in 1878, and the church was repaired in 1890, under the direction of Messrs. Buckler, architects, of Oxford, the total cost amounting to over £2,000. there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Hildersham, Holy Trinity: Records of baptisms 1559-1904, marriages 1561-1753, 1768-1835, burials 1560-1904 and banns 1767-1813 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1851 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts exist in the Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1560-1938, marriages 1561-1937 and burials 1560-1938, copies of these transcripts, for the years 1541-1938, are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall..
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 1742, 1759, 1789-1846 (1798 on microfilm) and 1865-1948.
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[Last updated 20 March 2003 Martin Edwards]