Huntingdonshire Archives

Bidwell and Sons (Cambridge and Huntingdon)

• Brick companies (various) Due to the deposits of brick clay that exist near Peterborough, in some Huntingdonshire Fenland villages and the Isle of Ely, a number of brick companies formed and floated at the end of the 19th century. By the 1920s most of these companies had been bought up by the London Brick Works Co Ltd.
• Bush Collection (Cromwell family)
• Conington Collection This collection centres on the records of the Heathcote family of Conington Castle from 1752. Also included are the records of the Cotton Family Estates 1490-1760, the Mower/Moyer estates in Essex 1400-1651 and the manorial records of Conington, Leighton Bromswold, Upton, Great Stukeley and Little Stukeley. The documents in the collection mainly consist of deeds, manorial records and estate papers.
• Ekins Dilley Fellowes estate collection
• Records of the Falcon Brewery
• Fellowes Estate
• Fenstanton Manor
• Gilbert and Co
• Godmanchester Borough
• Hinchingbrooke Collection
• Huntingdon Brewery Company. Have a favourite local that you would like to know more about? Pub history is a popular branch of local history and for this the records of the Huntingdon Brewery Company are ideal. The collection includes many photographs of the pubs which were tied to the Brewery.
• Huntingdonshire Clerk of the Peace: enclosure awards series Land Values Duty books National school survey plans Norman Cross RDC
• Quarter Sessions records for Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely and Huntingdonshire The records of the Quarter Sessions Courts for Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely and Huntingdonshire contain information on the wrong-doers of this area.
• Ramsey UDC
• School building grant plans (Cambridge and Huntingdon) Before 1904 government grants were made available for new school buildings. The 118 plans covering 33 Huntingdonshire schools that were submitted to the Education Department are now held at the Record Office.
• Stirtloe Collection
• Thornhill Collection
• Whitney Collection of photographs. If you are interested in seeing what Huntingdonshire and its people looked like at the turn of the last century you could search the catalogue of the Whitney collection
• Huntingdonshire parish records
• Records of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon

Cambridgeshire Archives

• Bedford Level Corporation
• Bidwell and Sons
• Cambridge and Ely Turnpike Trust
• Maps of parishes in old Cambridgeshire
• Quarter Sessions records for Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely
• Rowley Son and Royce
• School building grant plans
• Soham and area sale particulars
• Tharp Family Collection of Chippenham Park
•  Petty Sessions records for Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely
• Collections of Michael Pease [1918-1966] 
• Collections of Mr R J Ayres [1864-1935]
• Collections of Reverend Robert Holmes Edleston [1764-1950] 
  Papers of Professor T McKenny Hughes [1879-1916]
• Papers of and about the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association and kindred National Organisations 
• Records of Cambridge Labour Party Records of Girton Labour Party Records of the Cambridge Branch of the National Council of Women (formerly the National Union of Women Workers) and kindred societies
• Records of the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association (later the Cambridge Standing Committee of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship) and the Cambridge and District Women Citizens' Association
• Records of the Cambridgeshire Women's Liberal Association
• Records of the Church Commissioners 
• Records of the Cottage Home for Orphan   
  Girls, Cambridge 
• Cambridgeshire parish records
• Taxation records, Ely and South Witchford Division and sale particulars for the Ely area

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