| Name | Hemingford Grey |
| Alt names | Alia Emingeforde | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 141 | | Hemingford-Grey | source: Family History Library Catalog |
| Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.317°N 0.1°W |
| Located in | Huntingdonshire, England ( - 1965) |
| Also located in | Huntingdon and Peterborough, England (1965 - 1974) | | Cambridgeshire, England (1974 - ) |
| See also | Toseland Hundred, Huntingdonshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England | municipal borough in which it was located 1889-1974 | | St. Ives Rural, Huntingdonshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1889-1974 | | Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England | district municipality of which it has been part since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Hemingford Grey has been since 1974 a village in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It is situated on the southern bank of the River Great Ouse with the northern bank occupied by the flood meadow. It adjoins the village of Hemingford Abbots to the west and the town of St. Ives to the north of the river. The A14 trunk road passes through the parish about a mile south of the main settlement.
Until 1965 it was in Huntingdonshire and between 1965 and 1974 it was in the short-lived county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. For the years 1889 to 1894 it was part of St. Ives Municipal Borough. In 1894 it became a civil parish in St. Ives Rural District. Within Cambridgeshire it is part of the Huntingdonshire administrative district.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Hemingford Grey.
Research Tips
- Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS
- The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society has transcribed the parish registers for all the ancient parishes of Huntingdonshire and these can be purchased from the Society as pdfs.
- A History of the County of Huntingdon in 3 volumes from British History Online (Victoria County Histories). This is by far the most complete history of the parishes of the county to be found online. The chapters are ordered by the divisions of the county called hundreds, but each chapter is linked to the volume's content page. Volume 2 (published 1932) covers Hurstingstone and Toseland hundreds (index of parishes); Leightonstone and Norman Cross Hundreds (index of parishes) are found in Volume 3 (published 1936). Volume 1 is a part-volume describing the religious houses of the county.
- GENUKI has a page on Huntingdonshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical or ancient parishes in the county. These give references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area.
- The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date.
- A Vision of Britain through Time, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions.
- Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Map of Huntingdonshire divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
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