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"EAST HATLEY is a parish, about 3 miles south--east from Gamlingay station on the Bedford and Cambridge section of the London, Midland and Scottish railway, 7 north-west from Royston and about 13 south--west from Cambridge, in the hundred of Armingford, petty sessional division of Arrington and Melbourn, union of Caxton and Arrington, county court district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Shingay and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely."
"The Master and Fellows of Downing College are lords of the manor and sole landowners. The soil is clay, in some parts heavy; subsoil, boulder clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,189 acres; the population in 1921 was 100."
[Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire 1929]
The Monumental Inscriptions for St Denis churchyard, 1760-1979, are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office.
The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridge Record Office. In addition the 1851 Census for East Hatley is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
"The church of St. Denis is a build-ing of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south porches and a western tower containing one bell: the chancel dates from 1260 and the nave from 1200: in 1874 the fabric was restored, new roofed and re-floored, open benches introduced and three stained windows erected, at a cost of £1,738: there are some memorials to the Castell family, the former owners of the estate, including an altar tomb to Mrs. Constance Castell, ob. 1610, and a tablet to the Rev. W. Cray Say, a former rector, d. 1751: the church affords 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1678."
[Kellys Directory of Cambridgeshire 1929]
The civil parish was united with Hatley St. George in 1956.
East Hatley, St. Denis: Records of baptisms 1585-1618, 1663-1979, marriages 1590-1616, 1675-1978, burials 1595-1618, 1664-1979 and banns 1757-1811, 1856-76 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-11641, 1660-1875 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts exist in the Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1589-1812, marriages 1591-1837 and burials 1590-1812. Copies of the parish register transcripts 1585-1837, are available, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Bookstall.
Primitive Methodist Church: Records exist at the Bedford Record Office for the St. Neots Primitive Circuit of which East Hatley is part.
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 1946-1948.
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