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| Name | Wisbech St. Mary |
| Alt names | Guyhirn | source: hamlet in parish | | Thomolas Drove | source: hamlet in parish | | Thorney Toll | source: hamlet in parish |
| Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.6516°N 0.1014°E |
| Located in | Isle of Ely, England (1889 - 1965) |
| Also located in | Cambridgeshire, England ( - 1889) | | Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, England (1965 - 1974) | | Cambridgeshire, England (1974 - ) |
| See also | Wisbech Hundred, Isle of Ely, England | hundred in which it was located | | Wisbech Rural, Isle of Ely, England | rural district 1894-1974 | | Fenland District, Cambridgeshire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
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NOTE: In 1889 Cambridgeshire was separated into two sections:
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The existence of two counties was to last until 1965 when they came back together as Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. But in 1974 the area, under a new type of administration, reverted to the name Cambridgeshire. For more discussion of this situation, see Isle of Ely, England. In keeping with the policies of WeRelate, all the places within the Isle of Ely during its existence include "Isle of Ely" in their placenames instead of "Cambridgeshire".
A process is built in so that the places can be redirected to the Isle of Ely if they are originally referred to as Cambridgeshire.
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- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Wisbech St. Mary is a small village, 2 miles (3 km) west of the town of Wisbech in the Fenland District of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies between the B1169 road and the A47 major road. The population (including Guyhirn and Thorney Toll) of the civil parish at the 2011 UK census was 3,556. The Victoria County History for Cambridgeshire, Vol 4 states that Wisbech St. Mary covered some 10,000 acres.
In the later Middle Ages various subordinate manors were located in the parish including Hiptofts, Jacketts, Tuddenham Hall and Bevis Hall. For more about these individual manors, see the Wisbech St Mary article in Wikipedia].
The population of Wisbech St. Mary was more spread out than all the other Isle (of Ely) parishes. Other villages within in the parish include Murrow, Guyhirn and Thorney Toll. The Peterborough-Sutton bridge branch of the former M. & G.N joint railway, opened in 1866, has stations in the parish at Murrow (East) and Wisbech St Mary. The March-Spalding line opened in 1867 had stations at Murrow (West) and Guyhirn. The Pepys family farmed a manor in the parish. It was leased to Samuel Pepys in 1639 for 21 years. A mission chapel was built at Thomolas Drove and Primitive Methodist chapels in the village and Tholomas Drove. The village has an Anglican church, a primary school and some public houses. The village is built on an old watercourse, a "roddon"; such sand and silt beds are firmer and rise higher than the surrounding shrinking peat fens.
Wikipedia has an article on the hamlet of Guyhirn.
Research tips
- Original historical documents relating to Cambridgeshire 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 many if not all the ancient parishes of Cambridgeshire and these can be purchased from the Society as separate pdfs.
- A History of the County of Cambridge. Seven 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. From the numbering it would appear that some parts of the county are yet to be published online, but the first two volumes for any county are of little interest to the genealogist. The chapters are ordered by the divisions of the county called hundreds, but each parish is listed in the volume's content page.
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City (Cambridge) and University of Cambridge (published 1959)
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; North Ely and South Ely, Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds (the cathedral city and liberty of Ely and the rural areas to the west and northwest, including the port of Wisbech) (published 2002)
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 5, the Hundreds of Longstowe and Wetherley, west of Cambridge (published 1973)
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 6, the three Hundreds of Chilford, Radfield and Whittlesford (in the south of the county, on the border with Essex) (published 1978)
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 8, Armingford and Thriplow Hundreds (south and west of Cambridge) (published 1982)
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 9, Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds (the suburban and rural areas to the north and northwest of Cambridge) (published 1989)
- A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (northeastern Cambridgeshire) (published 2002)
- GENUKI has a page on Cambridgeshire 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. Each parish page includes a map of the parish provided by Open Street Maps.
- 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" for each parish and borough leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974.
- Map of Cambridgeshire divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Map of Cambridge divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
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