Cambridgeshire
Lincolnshire
Contents 
Nearby Places
Nearby churches
"TYDD ST. GILES (or Tid St. Giles) is a parish in the Isle of Ely, on the Lincolnshire border of the county, about 3 miles east from Tydd station on the Peterborough and Wisbech section of the Midland and Great Northern joint railway, 6 north-west from Wisbech and 96 from London, in the Wisbech hundred, union, petty sessional division and county court district, and in the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Wisbech and diocese of Ely. "
"The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor of Wisbech Barton, which extends into this parish. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are fruit, wheat, oats, beans, mustard, potatoes and peas. The area of the parish is 4,761 acres of land and inland water, and 10 of tidal water and 11 of foreshore; the population in 1921 was 1,213."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office and Wisbech Library. In addition the 1851 Census for Tydd St. Giles is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Giles is an edifice of the 12th century, in the Norman and Early English styles, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north porch and a detached embattled tower containing 6 bells; the nave aracades have five Norman bays and one of later date; the piers are circular, and the capitals varied, some being Norman and others Early English: the chancel arch is a drop arch on shafts with Early English capitals: there are several niches: the south aisle and clerestory windows are Perpendicular and the east window is stained the west doorway exhibits an ogee arch, with three niches over it, and there is a fine Decorated window, with buttresses and crocketed canopies, supposed to be the work of Alan de Walsingham, architect of the lantern of Ely cathedral: the tower stands many yards away from the south-east angle of the chancel: its two lower stages seem to be Early English, its upper stage Perpendicular: the church underwent thorough restoration in the year 1869, at a cost of £2,400, and an organ was built in 1883, at a cost of £270: there are 547 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559."
"There are two Primitive Methodist chapels."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Tydd St. Giles, St. Giles: Records of baptisms 1687-1984, marriages 1687-1948, burials 1687-1941 and banns for 1823-1983 reside in the Wisbech Museum. Transcripts exist for baptisms, marriages and burials 1559-1659 at the Wisbech Museum. Indexed transcripts of marriages 1559-1837, photocopies of baptisms 1768-1842, burials 1768-71, 1800-38 plus microfilm copies of baptisms 1689-1984, marriages 1689-1987, burials 1689-1941 and banns 1754-1804, 1823-1983 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1649, 1662-1860 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.
Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records also exist for the Wisbech Wesleyan Circuit of which Tydd St. Giles is part.
"FOUL ANCHOR is 3 miles east and has a Church of England mission-house. Near here is Tydd railway station, and there is a ferry at this point across the Nene."
"A small portion of Tydd Gote, 2 miles north-east, is in this parish; the rest is in Tydd St. Mary's, Lincolnshire."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
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 1798m (on microfilm), 1799-1803, 1935-48.
Find help, report problems, and contribute information.
[Last updated 20 March 2003 Martin Edwards]