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"OAKINGTON, properly Hockington, the place being really named after the Hocings, one of the royal tribes of Frisia mentioned in Beowulf and "The Travellers Song," is a parish and village with a station on the St. Ives and Cambridge branch of the London a North Eastern, railway; 64½ miles from London and 7 north-west from Cambridge, in the hundred of Northstow, 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 stiff loam, and the subsoil clay. Wheat, barley, beans, peas, potatoes and turnips are the chief crops. The acreage of the entire civil parish is 1,692; the population in 1921 was 449 in the civil and 507 in the ecclesiastical parish."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. Andrew for the years 1687-1983 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. These monumental transcripts 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 Oakington is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Andrew is a large edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and an embattlecd western tower containing 4 bells, of which the treble and third were cast in 1655 and the tenor in 1656, all three by Miles Graye, of Colchester; the second dated 1748: the south porch was destroyed in 1842: the church retains an ancient stone font consisting of a rudely arcaded basin, supported on five shafts, and there are three massive stone coffin lids, supposed to date from about 1350; these were found under the floor; one bears a fioriated cross: both aisles originally had chantries at the east end, and the north aisle still retains two niches: the tower, very well built of rubble masonry, with Barnack stone quoins, belongs to the Early Decorated period: the church was restored in 1885, at a cost of £1,000, under the direction of W.S Fawcett esq. M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, architect, and affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1561. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £350, with residence, in the gift Queens' College, Cambridge, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Aubyn Littledale M.A. of that college. The list of vicars dates from 1315. In a garden near the church are the graves of three Puritan ministers, Joseph Oddy 1687, Francis Holcroft 1692, and Henry Osland 1711. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels."
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
Oakington, St. Andrew: Records of baptisms 1561-1696, 1708-1930, marriages 1561-1696, 1708-1836, burials 1561-1696, 1708-1904 and banns 1754-1855 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Indexed transcripts for baptisms 1561-1696, 1708-1858, marriages 1561-1993 and burials 1561-1696, 1708-1858, 1904-93 also reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The parish register transcripts for the years 1561-1858 are available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1691 and 1712-1853 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
"The manor of Hockington was given in 946 by its owner, Turketyl or Thuraytel, chancellor of King Edred, to Crowland Abbey; it was devastated by the Panes in 1009, but the buildings were restored by Abbot Brittimer in 1018-48: the manor and rectory remained in the possession of Crowland Abbey till the surrender of the monastery December 8, 1539 ; in 1557 it was purchased by Queens' College, Cambridge. "
[Kelly's Directory - 1929]
WESTWICK is a parish in the hundred and union of Chesterton and Oakingron ecclesiastical parish.
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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