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FAMILY HISTORY
For details of our enquiries service, please see the Family List page.
Please contact us prior to visiting the museum for family history enquires, so we can provide you the best possible service.
We can prepare documents for you in advance of your visit.
During museum opening hours, family history experts may be unavailable and stewards may be unable to help immediately.
The Museum holds the following copy records:
| Thorney Abbey Monumental Inscriptions |
Research on various Thorney Families (collated from other
records) |
| Census Returns 1841 – 1891 |
Duke of Bedford Alterations to Tenants |
| Marriages 1653 – 1940 |
Duke of Bedford Contracts |
| Burials 1653 – 1963 |
Fenland Notes and Queries |
| Baptisms 1653 – 1940 |
Wills of Thorney residents |
ARMED FORCES
Thorney has always provided people for service in the armed forces whether in
the local militia, World War I, World War II, or any conflict since.
In World War II this included service in the Home Guard, Red Cross and Land
Army.
Donations and photographs are held in the museum recording local people
involved in all of the above.
The Cambridgeshire Regimental Museum sent, on short term loan, copies of the
Militia Lists for 1822 and 1823. These have been transcribed and can be
reviewed under "Militia Lists". These take a couple of minutes to load.
Books about graves and memorials in
Thorney Abbey Churchyard
These books include information about people with the following family
names:
Military gravestones: Baldwin, Benton, Berridge, Briggs, Castle, Clapham,
Cooke, Gedney, Hadnam, Johnson, Latimer, Lilley, Merchant, Morris, Oliver,
Peach, Shirley
Victorian gravestones: Bland, Bott, Buck, Carr, Cautley, Cave, Clapham,
Cooke, Davis, Gee, Hammerton, Hardy, Nichol, Russell, Thacker
Please see the bibliography page for information about buying these books
(available December 2005)
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