Place:Sibson cum Stibbington, Huntingdonshire, England

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Sibson-cum-Stibbington is a civil parish now in the City of Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Sibson and Stibbington, together with Wansford railway station. Before 1894 it was a civil parish in the Norman Cross Hundred of the county of Huntingdonshire. From 1894 to 1935 the parish became a single-parish rural district under the administrative responsibility of Barnack Rural District in the Soke of Peterborough even though the parish remained in County of Huntingdonshire. In 1935 it transferred to Norman Cross Rural District where it remained until 1974 when it was transferred to the Peterborough District. [edit] Sibson the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Sibson is a village now in the far northwest corner of the Huntingdonshire District in Cambridgeshire, England in the civil parish of Sibson cum Stibbington. It is near Wansford in the city of Peterborough. Sibson Aerodrome is 1 km south of the village.

Stibbington

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Stibbington is a village which lies in a loop of the River Nene and in the civil parish of Sibson cum Stibbington. It is near Wansford on the Great North Road, in the city of Peterborough.

The village is about 6½ miles from Peterborough. The church stands about a quarter of a mile east of the Great North Road near the ford to Sutton. Stibbington Hall, near the church, is a 17th-century house. Stibbington House lies between the Oundle Road and the Nene, and was the residence of Sir Stephen Hastings. Stibbington Manor Farm, on the southwest side of the road near Sibson Manor House, was built about 1625.

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• Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are now held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at Shire Hall, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4GS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