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This page last updated
on: Thursday 15 July, 2004
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Wimpole
Parish Council (15-July-04
A new page providing contact details, parish council noticeboard and
minutes of recent parish council meetings. Also links to recent issues
of "The Sawston Beat" - the local police newsletter edited
by Pc John Sutton, Wimpole's Community Beat Officer. |
Yorke
Monumental Inscriptions (7-June-04)
A page listing the inscriptions from the Memorials and Monuments to
the Yorke Family in St Andrew's Parish Church and the Chicheley Chapel.
This new page has the Monumental Inscriptions for Elizabeth Lygon
(wife of John), Philip Yorke (2nd Earl of
Hardwicke), Agneta Johnston
(second wife of Charles), Charles Philip Yorke and wife Harriet, and
Philip Yorke (3rd Earl of Hardwicke). Additional
inscriptions will be added in due course. |
Yorke
Family Tree (20-May-04)
Bothered by those troublesome Yorkes? Don't know
your Yorkes from your Hardwickes? The answer is now at hand! A new
reference page giving basic biographical details of the principal
members of the Yorke Family, taking the lineage down through the five
Earls of Hardwicke who owned Wimpole from 1740 to 1894. Did you know
our parish church has an admiral whose flagship was "HMS Victory"?
Or a general who was at the Battle of Culloden and of whom it was
later said by US President John Adams "I have planted the American
standard at the Hague. There let it wave and fly in triumph over Sir
Joseph Yorke and British pride."? |
Chicheley
Chapel (14-May-04)
A history of the Chapel and descriptions of the main
religious monuments. Famous people buried at Wimpole include at least
two Lord Mayors of London, two Lord Chancellors, various Earls, Knights,
an Admiral, an Archdeacon, the daughter of Rudyard Kipling and Lady
Savile who was the heroine of the siege of Sheffield Castle during
the English Civil War. |
The 1901 Census
(13-July-04)
The full 1901 Census Record for the Parish of Wimpole. The
residence, name, relation to head of family, marital status, age,
sex, occupation and place of birth of the men, women and children
living in Wimpole in 1901. It might be of interest that a full 10%
of the 1901 population of Wimpole record Cornwall as their county
of birth.The presentation includes family photographs and additional
information. |
Baptisms
1560-1599 (1-July-04)
The page is complete and the missing years are now included.
This page is the full Register of Baptisms at St Andrew's Church,
Wimpole, for the years 1560 to 1599. Listings include godparents where
known. |
The
Oatlands Sale 1921 (13-June-04)
The "Oatlands" estate on the south side of Cambridge Road
was sold at Auction on Tuesday 27 September 1921. The sale included
the "Oatlands" residence (now "Orwell Grange"),
the empty Brewery/Cundall's Factory building, a Forge/Smithy, a 33
acre field and ten domestic properties fronting Cambridge Road. The
page includes plans and detailed records taken from the Particulars
of Sale document. |
Burials
1560-1863 (01-June-04)
A four page transcrription from the Wimpole Parish
Registers giving all deaths in the Parish between 1560 and 1863 inclusive.
Annotated with links and family history contributions. |
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