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Tetherwurda (xii cent.), Tettworth, Tettesworthe (xiii cent.).
Tetworth lay in the extreme south of the county with a detached portion in Everton (Co. Bedfordshire). The parish consists of undulating land which rises gradually from the River Ouse until it approaches the eastern boundary where the rise is more abrupt. The soil of the high land is sand, and elsewhere a deep clay, growing corn, beans and potatoes.
The relationship between Everton and Tetworth is complex. Everton, or Everton-cum-Tetworth, was partly in Huntingdonshire and partly in Bedfordshire, but it has always formed a single ecclesiastical parish. Everton and Tetworth, however, are dealt with as two townships in the inclosure award of 1802, and have since been considered separate civil parishes. When the Act for settling and describing the divisions of counties declared that the isolated portion of the parish of Everton situated between Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire (and belonging to Huntingdonshire) was annexed to Huntingdonshire, it created no new position. It is in the Huntingdonshire portion of Everton, which is now said to form part of Tetworth, that the church which serves both Everton and Tetworth civil parishes, is situated.
Everton became a civil parish in Bedfordshire in 1810, and this was transferred to Huntingdonshire in 1842. Everton has never had a separate ecclesiastical identity; it is united ecclesiastically with Tetworth which has always been in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and the parish was in Huntingdonshire.
Tetworth, which was always in Huntingdonshire, was a hamlet in Everton. The church, serving both places, is in Everton village in what was until 1965 a detached portion of Tetworth ecclesiastical parish.
The village of Tetworth occupies the south-western angle of the parish and of the old county. At the southern end of the village is Tetworth Hall. Two moats, which can still be traced in this isolated portion of Everton, probably marks the site of the Manor House of Everton (or Everton Bury); this was the principal manor, and that of the manor which was held of it. The moat at Biggin Wood which, with Little Biggin Wood, lies on the western boundary of this portion of Everton, probably marks the site of the manor of Biggin or Everton Biggin.
In 1965 the detached part of Tetworth, including within it the parish church of Everton-cum-Tetworth, was transferred to Bedfordshire where it remained until 1974 when it then became part of the enlarged county of Cambridgeshire.
Monumental inscriptions for this parish have not yet been recorded by the Huntingdonshire FHS.
Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The full 1841 Census of Tetworth Parish is available as fiche set C80.
The full 1851 Census of Tetworth Parish is available as fiche set C30.
The full 1891 Census of Tetworth Parish is available as fiche set C13.
A surname index of the 1881 Census of the St. Neots Registration District, in which Tetworth was enumerated (RG11/1611, Folios 130a - 134b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as fiche set C5.
The above mentioned fiche are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
OS Grid Square TL 204514.
The church of St. Mary consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle,
south aisle, west tower and south porch. The walls are of stone rubble with stone
and clunch dressings, but those of the tower are mostly of ironstone. The roofs
are covered with tiles, slates and lead.
The church is mentioned in the
Domesday survey of 1086, but this early church was rebuilt in the middle of the
12th century, as a chancel and an aisled nave, the greater part of which still
exists. At the end of the 14th century, the tower, south porch and clearstory
were built, and about 100 years later, the chancel arch was rebuilt.
A
general restoration took place in 1865 when the north wall of the north aisle
and the south-east corner of the south aisle were rebuilt.
Baptisms: 1604-27, 1650-1812 (both indexed transcriptions),
1813-1866, 1866-1958.
Banns: 1755-1810 (indexed transcriptions), 1823-1946.
Marriages:
1604-27, 1654-1812 (both indexed transcriptions), 1813-1837, 1837-1946.
Burials:
1604-28, 1653-1812 (both indexed transcriptions), 1813-1921.
Bishop's Transcripts:
1604-5, 1608-10, 1617, 1619, 1625, 1627, 1669-72/1672-82, 1684-7, 1689, 1691-1702,
1705-9, 1714-16, 1718, 1720, 1723-1766/1766-1813/1813-1816, 1818, 1822/1825-59.
These are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.
The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
Tetworth was originally in the St Neots Registration District, which itself became a sub-district of Huntingdon. From 1st April 1997, it has been in the Huntingdon Registration District.
An old map of the parish of Tetworth in the 19th century is available.
The war memorial with detailed information about those who fell is available on Roll of Honour site for Cambridgeshire.
Population
in 1801 - 143.
Population in 1851 - 221.
Population in 1901 - 130.
Population
in 1951 - 107.
Population in 1971 - 55.
Population in 1991 - 35.
The parish of Tetworth was part of the St Neots Union
(for Poor Law administration).
Births and Deaths registered in the St Neots
Union Workhouse (1913 - 1952) are available, as fiche set D11, from the Huntingdonshire FHS.
The parish of Tetworth occupies 2235 acres of land.
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