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  Huntingdonshire Family History Society
Huntingdonshire Family History Society (HFHS) was founded in 1985 to help people to find out about their family history.
The county reorganisation in 1974 saw Huntingdonshire become part of a greater Cambridgeshire.
Records for Huntingdonshire are kept at the Record Office Huntingdon and other documentation such as old photographs, etc., at the Huntingdonshire Collection.
www.huntsfhs.org.uk   (314 words)

  
  Huntingdonshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huntingdonshire (abbreviated Hunts) is a part of England around the town of Huntingdon, which is currently administered as a local government district of Cambridgeshire.
This was merged with the Soke of Peterborough in 1965 to form the administrative county of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire.
Huntingdonshire was formerly in the diocese of Lincoln, but in 1837 was transferred to Ely.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huntingdonshire   (863 words)

  
 HUNTINGDONSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on HUNTINGDONSHIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Huntingdonshire, which contains 87 ecclesiastical parishes or districts wholly or in part, is almost wholly in the diocese of Ely, but a small part is in that of Peterborough.
Religious foundations were established at Ramsey, Huntingdon and St Neots in the 10th century, and that of Ramsey accumulated vast wealth and influence, owning twentysix manors in this county alone at the time of the Domesday Survey.
At the time of the Domesday Survey Huntingdonshire had an independent shrievalty, but from 1154 it was united with Cambridgeshire under one sheriff, until in 1637 the two counties were separated for six years, alter which they were reunited and have remained so to the present day.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUNTINGDONSHIRE.htm   (2767 words)

  
 GENUKI Huntingdonshire Genealogy
Huntingdonshire, Huntingdon, or Hunts, inland county, South Midland District, England; is bounded W. and N. by Northamptonshire, E. by Cambridgeshire, and S. by Bedfordshire; greatest length, N. and S., 30 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 23 miles; 229,515 acres; population 59,491.
Huntingdonshire is almost wholly devoid of trees, and may be described as an agricultural and pastoral county.
Huntingdonshire County News 1886-1920+ is available in the Norris Library; Huntingdonshire Chronicle 1889-1900 is in the Cambridge Library); Huntingdonshire Post 1893-1920+ (some are available in the Norris Library).
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/HUN   (4723 words)

  
 The Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalions
It was as a result of these changes that Huntingdonshire lost its only Volunteer Territorial Battalion when it was merged and re organised to provide two companies for the 5th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment.
At a meeting of the Huntingdonshire Territorial Association held in November 1913 in anticipation of approval for the Battalion being given they appointed a perspective officer in order to prepare a scheme for raising men for the proposed Battalion.
This action was found by the Huntingdonshire Territorial Association to be totally unacceptable, but in order not to prejudice the formation of the new Battalion agreed to support the enrolment for the 2 companies of men to be raised into the Bedfordshire Regiment as well as to prepare to recruit all the Officers and men.
www.huntscycles.co.uk /Formation.htm   (2280 words)

  
 Government Offices | East of England |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Huntingdonshire is on the A1 North / South and A14 East / West crossroads.
Huntingdonshire is the largest District in Cambridgeshire, covering an area of 923 square kilometres; the main towns are Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots, Godmanchester, Ramsey and Yaxley.
The population of Huntingdonshire increased by 25.8 per cent to 159,100 between 1983 and 2003 compared with an 11.5 per cent rise in the East of England and a 6.5 per cent rise in England.
www.goeast.gov.uk /goeast/our_region/272094/cambridgekf/huntingdonshire_kf   (495 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire Day page
Huntingdonshire Day will be a day to celebrate Huntingdonshire: the county and its people, its past, its present and its future.
The Huntingdonshire Declaration reasserts that Huntingdonshire is a county.
So it is that on Huntingdonshire Day we are able to reassert the unchanged existence of Huntingdonshire, and to say that we are proud of the county and all the blessings it enjoys.
www.rahbarnes.demon.co.uk /hunts/huntsday.htm   (1078 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire Regional College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Huntingdonshire Regional College is a relatively small general further education (FE) college serving the needs of a widely dispersed population.
Huntingdonshire, which has a population of approximately 150,000, is a relatively prosperous area.
Huntingdonshire Regional College has made satisfactory progress since it was inspected by Ofsted and the Adult Learning Inspectorate in March 2002, when it was judged to be inadequate.
www.ofsted.gov.uk /reports/manreports/1716.htm   (11523 words)

  
 Free Surname Search : Huntingdonshire
Summary of Baptists Ministers in Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire 1811 - 1831
This database is built from the details found on the Boer War memorials located in Bedford, Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, Peterborough and St Albans.
Somersham, Huntingdonshire, England Taxation of Edward III in 1327/28
www.freesurnamesearch.com /search/uk/hun.html   (164 words)

  
 Roll of Honour - Huntingdonshire - War Memorial Selection
Throughout Huntingdonshire there are various memorials and rolls of honour dedicated to those men and women who fell in various wars.
There is a list of some of the Huntingdonshire people who have carried out such acts and the award or citation given.
Throughout Huntingdonshire there are memorials to be found that reveal the men and women who have served and fallen in various wars or of the various military units that have served from within the bounds of this area.
www.roll-of-honour.com /Huntingdonshire   (958 words)

  
 Traveller's World - Cambridgeshire - Huntingdonshire and the Ouse Valley
Huntingdonshire is centre around the River Great Ouse and its fascinating market towns.
Queen Catherine of Aragon was sent to Buckden Palace near Huntingdon by Henry VIII before she was imprisoned at Kimbolton Castle.
The cheese was made in Leicestershire, brought to the 17th century Bell Inn staging post on the Great North Road (once a regular haunt of highwayman Dick Turpin) for delivery by coach to London where it became known as Stilton.
www.travellers-world.info /areas/a23a.html   (705 words)

  
 Summary of Documentary and Library Holdings in the Huntingdon County Record Office
Census Enumerators' Schedules for the ten-yearly censuses of 1841-91 for all Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough, and some parishes in adjacent counties, including all Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 1861 (microfilm).
Index of all Marriages in Huntingdonshire and the parish of Thorney, Cambridgeshire (omitted from the equivalent Cambridgeshire index) 1601-1837.
Electoral Registers for Huntingdonshire 1832-44, 1865, 1920, 1928 to date (with gaps) and for Soke of Peterborough/Peterborough District 1932-84 (with gaps).
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/HUN/RecordOffice.html   (715 words)

  
 DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD ANNIS OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ENGLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
RICHARD ANNIS was born in Huntingdonshire, England, but there is some conflict in the official records as to the year of his birth.
THOMAS ANNIS was born 1785 and baptized November 6, 1785 at Wistow Parish, Huntingdonshire, England; died November 21, 1835, and was buried November 24, 1835 at Pidley, Huntingdonshire, England.
ERNEST ANNIS was born December 6, 1873 (a twin of Thomas) at Pidley, Huntingdonshire, England; christened December 10, 1873; died August 1, 1958 at Wayne County, IL.
www.angelfire.com /mi/annisall/Richard.html   (2655 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire, EnglandGenWeb Project
These pages are dedicated to various researcher's portraits of their ancestors who were born or lived in from Huntingdonshire.
A brief overview of the rise and fall of the railways in Huntingdonshire and the effect on brick-making.
Through out the centuries there have been memorials and rolls of honour for those killed in the the service of their country who were born or lived in Huntingdonshire.
www.rootsweb.com /~enghun/indexpg.htm   (353 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire Local History Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The fund exists to further the object of the Society, which is the advancement of local history in Huntingdonshire.
(a) For research into and promotion of the history of Huntingdonshire and associated publication, including individual study and educational projects concerned with local history.
Individual applicants need not be members of the Huntingdonshire Local History Society.
www.huntslocalhistory.org.uk /fundinfo.html   (434 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire Local History
This volume was published in 1968, and includes details of maps deposited at the County Record Office Huntingdon before that date.
Oliver Cromwell and Huntingdonshire by Caroline Clifford and Alan Akeroyd
The journal of the Huntingdonshire Local History Society, published every year.
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk /leisure/archives/shopping/huntingdonshirelocalhistory.htm   (235 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire District Council
Huntingdonshire’s first Food and Drink Festival celebrating the great food, produced and grown locally has successfully received a grant of £8,000 of Awards for All Lottery funding.
Over 100 participants and supporters took part in the annual Huntingdonshire Disability Sports Forum Outdoor Festival at the St Ivo Outdoor Centre on Sunday 15 July.
Customers wishing to visit Huntingdonshire District Council will, from July 30, find themselves being seen in just one ground floor location in Centenary House, instead of being directed to any one of five reception areas on four different floors in Pathfinder House.
www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk   (261 words)

  
 BBC - Cambridgeshire Planet Cambridgeshire - Happy Bird-day Hunts RSPB!
The local RSPB group in Huntingdonshire are celebrating their 20th anniversary in style.
The Huntingdonshire RSPB local group organises monthly lectures on various wild life topics from September through to April at the St Ives Free Church, every last Wednesday of the month.
Since the Huntingdonshire group started they have enjoyed 203 bird watching excursions, 46 social events, 29 conservation work parties and presented 142 slide lectures.
www.bbc.co.uk /cambridgeshire/planet_cambs/2002/09/huntingdon_rspb_birthday.shtml   (413 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire Homelands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Warboys was and is a parish of 8,103 acres lying in the north eastern part of Huntingdonshire, much of which was still "fenny" as late as 1850.
The village was described at that time as " the largest and most populous in the county" (population 1996 in 1851) with houses -many of which were "well built and of a respectable and pleasing exterior"- spread over a large area of ground.
It was reported that people were slow to respond as they were either drunk at one of the 7 public houses or engaged in fighting contests.
www.genealogy.freewire.co.uk /dring/HomelandHunts.htm   (785 words)

  
 GENfair - Huntingdonshire Family History Society
An illustrated history of the Huntingdonshire town of St Neots.
Includes a gazetteer in which the history of houses & buildings is traced including their successive occupants
Glimpses of Huntingdonshire Life in the 18th and 19th centuries.
www.genfair.com /shop/pages/hun/page02.html   (172 words)

  
 Your Image Matters - Web Designer Huntingdonshire UK
Huntingdonshire Web Designer and Web Development UK Your Image Matters are specialists in internet marketing and web development in Huntingdonshire, lancs.
Web Designer in Lanc's, Huntingdonshire Web Design is encouraging people to look after their mobile 'phones.
This includes advertising to ask people to make sure they know what their Huntingdonshire number is. Huntingdonshire need these details if you report your phone stolen and can be found by keying.
www.chieftain.co.uk /web-design/web-designer-Huntingdonshire.htm   (1094 words)

  
 Huntingdonshire Society home page.
The Huntingdonshire Society was founded in 1997 to be a voice championing the county of Huntingdonshire.
To foster pride in the County of Huntingdonshire.
We seek to foster Huntingdonshire identity and the treasuring of that identity.
www.rahbarnes.demon.co.uk /hunts   (289 words)

  
 Palaeolithic Huntingdonshire
Their only weapons that have survived to us in Huntingdonshire were made from stone, which was chipped into the required shape.
From a geological point of view the lower level gravels should be Upper Palæolithic in age, the earlier gravels being at a higher level on the slopes of the river valleys.
No gravels have been found in Huntingdonshire containing tropical fauna, like the gravels at Fengate, Peterborough, just outside the county.
www.huntingdonshire.info /history/1_1_palaeolithic.htm   (980 words)

  
 HUNTINGDONSHIRE
Just to save ANY confusion the county of Huntingdonshire is currently a
When will they learn to stop fiddling about with things that have worked well for over a thousand years?
If you are interested in ensuring that we keep our heritage and maintain the geographical county of Huntingdonshire, then why not join the Huntingdonshire Society or visit the town in 2005 during the 800th anniversary celebrations of the signing of the Town Charter by King John
www.huntingdonshire.info   (241 words)

  
 Family History, Wheaton Chart 0702 Robert Wheaton and Catherine White   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eliza WHEATON was married again on the 23rd July 1842 by licence in Earith, Huntingdonshire to Chas.
In his Will Robert left "to Sophie the wife of Boroman AUBREY..into her own hands for her own independent use free from the control of her said Husband the sum of one hundred pounds...and I declare that her receipt alone and without her said Husband shall be a sufficient discharge....
There are no others with these names in one family in Huntingdonshire in 1841.
web.ukonline.co.uk /the.nook/charts/wheat702.htm   (590 words)

  
 Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516: Huntingdonshire
In the 1334 Lay Subsidy, Kimbolton was assessed with the soke at £150.
In the 1334 Lay Subsidy, St Ives was assessed with the soke of Slepe at £136.88 (Glasscock, p.
In 1227, the burgesses of Huntingdon complained that the A of Ramsey’s fair was damaging the town of Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire (q.v.
www.history.ac.uk /cmh/gaz/hunts.html   (3972 words)

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