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"UPWELL, formerly a market town, is a large village and extensive parish, 6½ miles south-east from Wisbech station, partly in the hundred of Wisbech and in the Isle of Ely, a large portion being also in the hundred of Clackclose, county of Norfolk, union, petty sessional division, county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Wisbech and diocese of Ely. The parish is on either side of the river Nene, which separates the counties of Cambridge and Norfolk, and the Norfolk portion is given in Kelly's Directory of that county. By an Order which came into operation March 25, 1884, detached parts of this parish were amalgamated with Welney, in Downham union. A steam tramway runs from the village to the London and North Eastern railwav station at Wisbech for con-veying merchandise. The mother church of Upwell St. Peter stands in Norfolk, and the rectory was separated from that of Welney by 9 and 10 Vict. c. 7 (1846)."
"The soil is loamy, in many parts highly fertile, and the subsoil clay. The crops are wheat, potatoes, peas, beans, oats and mustard; a considerable portion of land is devoted to fruit culture. The area of the Cambridgeshire portion of the parish is 7,609 acres of land and 66 of water; the population in 1921 was 1,583 ; the population of Christchurch ecclesiastical parish was 836."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]In 1990 the Cambridgeshire part of Upwell village was transferred to Norfolk, and the remainder of the parish was renamed Christchurch: see also under Christchurch
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office and also in the Wisbech Library. In addition the 1851 Census for Upwell is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The mother church of Upwell St. Peter stands in Norfolk, and the rectory was separated from that of Welney by 9 and 10 Vict. c. 7 (1846)."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Upwell: Records of baptisms c. 1655 - c.1668, 1704-1902, marriages 1704-1903, burials 1704-1862, banns for 1754-1821 reside in the Wisbech Museum. Transcripts of baptisms c. 1653-69, marriages c. 1653-66, burials c. 1653-69, 1702 and indexed transcripts of baptisms 1704-1818 also reside at the Wisbech Museum. Microfilm copies of baptisms 1704-1902, marriages 1704-1883, burials 1704-1902 also exist. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1691-1837 can be found in the Norfolk Record Office.
Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for the Chatteris Wesleyan Circuit of which Upwell (Cambs.) is part.
Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for the Wisbech Wesleyan Circuit of which Upwell (Cambs.) is part.
Primitive Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for the Manea Primitive Circuit of which Upwell (Cambs.) is part.
The "1839 Pigot's Directory of Cambridgeshire" for Upwell index of Inns & Hotels, Taverns and Public Houses, Brewers & Maltsters + Wine & Spirit Merchants.
CHRISTCHURCH is an ecclesiastical parish is the Isle of Ely and rural deanery of March....
EXMOOR (or Euismoor, or Euximoor) is 3 miles north; LAKE'S END is 3½ miles east; TIP'S END, 3 miles south. LADDUS and SUSAN'S (or Shrewsness) GREEN lie to the south-west.
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
Two courts cover the probate records for Upwell
Archdeaconry Court of Norfolk
Jurisdiction in Outwell, Upwell and Welney, which were partly in Norfolk.
Records are at the Norfolk record Office. Wills, 1543-1858, administrations, 1541-1618, 1670-1857, inventories, 1728-74. Published index to wills, 1543-1602 (Norfolk Family History Society, vols. 3, 5, 10).
Consistory Court of Norwich
Records are at the Norfolk Record Office. Wills 1370-1857, administrations, 1370-1499, 1549-1640, 1666-1857, inventories, 1584-1846. Published index to wills, 1370-1857 (Norfolk Record Society, vols. 16, 21, 34, 38, 47).
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 Cambridgeshire portion for the years 1935-1948 and the Huntingdon Record Office has 1798-99 (on microfilm). The Norfolk portion for the years 1767, 1783-1832 reside in the Norfolk Record Office
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