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"LINTON is a small union town, parish and head of a petty sessional division, pleasantly seated on the river Granta, on the confines of the county, bordering upon Essex, with a station on the Cambridge and Sudbury branch of the Great Eastern Railway, 11 miles south-east from Cambridge, 13 south-west from Newmarket, 6 north from Saffron Walden and 48 from London, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Chilford, county court district of Saffron Walden, rural deanery of Camps, second division, and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The soil here is principally gravel and chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 3,806 acres of land and 11 of water; rateable value, £5,557; the population in 1891 was 1,726, including 97 officers and inmates in the workhouse."
[Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire 1900]
The Monumental Inscriptions for St. Mary's churchyard, 1707-1944, are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. These inscriptions are also available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall. There are is also a Congregational churchyard.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for Linton is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Mary is a building of flint and rubble, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: in the aisles are several monuments to the families of Pairs (1551 and 1650), Stanley (1726 and 1780), Millicent (1555 and 1577) and Flack (1693, 1704 and 1705) the chancel and Millicent chapel were restored in 1879 at the expense of Pembroke College, Cambridge, the lay impropriators, a new organ being at the same time erected by the parishioners: a restoration of the church begun in 1887, was completed in 1891, and the total cost, including the chancel, amounted to about £1,400: there are 530 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559."
"Here is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1818 and seating 500 persons, with a graveyard attached; and there are also Salvation Army Barracks and a small Literary Institute."
[Kelly's Directory - 1900]
Linton, St. Mary: Records of baptisms 1560-1930, marriages 1559-1996, burials 1566-1966 and banns 1754-1844, 1859-1903 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1600-41, 1662-1855 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts exist in the Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1560-1844, marriages 1559-1844 and burials 1566-1844, copies of these transcripts are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall..
Independent: Records exist for baptisms 1787-1921, marriages 1879-1908, burials 1787-1915 (burials 1798-1837 are on microfilm) with transcripts for baptisms 1787-1837 and burials 1798-1837.
"The Beeches, the property and residence of Johann Gottlieb Brinkmann esq. is pleasantly situated and stands in its own grounds of about 7 acres. Harrison's charity of £2 8s. 9d. yearly is for bread. A fair for smallwares, formerly held on Holy Thursday and the sheep fair formerly held on the 20th July are now abolished, and the market once held here has also fallen into disuse. Barham Hall, in this parish, was anciently a priory of Crutched Friars, founded about 1292, as a cell to the convent of St. Jagu de Lisle in Brittany; it is now a farm house. The remains of a Roman villa were discovered in 1825 in a field separated by the river Granta from the site of Barham Priory, and in 1862, when excavating for the railway from Cambridge to Sudbury, the workmen met with the remains of numerous skeletons in this field at a depth of 3 feet from the surface."
[Kelly's Directory - 1900]
The "1839 Pigot's Directory of Cambridgeshire" for Linton index of Inns & Hotels, Taverns and Public Houses, Brewers & Maltsters + Wine & Spirit Merchants.
The Poor Law Institution in the parish of Linton (later the Public Assistance Institution and then Linton Hospital) has records for births for 1933 and deaths 1930-83 in the Cambridge Record Office.
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 1694, 1759-63, 1790-1846 and 1865-1948.
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[Last updated 21 May 2003 Martin Edwards]