LANDWADE
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
"LANDWADE, a parish in the hundred of Staploe, county Cambridge, 3 miles
north-west of Newmarket, its post town. It is a small parish adjoining that of
Burwell. There is no village, only a few farmhouses. Here is an old moated
seat of the Cottons of Madingley, who inherited it through the Hastings, in
which family the manor has been since the reign of Edward IIL The living is
a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Exning, in the diocese of Ely. The
church is a cruciform structure dedicated to St. Nicholas. It contains six
marble monuments to the Cotton family."
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
- The Census Records from 1841, 1861-1891 can be found in the Cambridgeshire Archives.
The original census for 1851 was lost at source. In addition the 1861 Census for
Landwade is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the
Cambridgeshire Family History Society Publications list (search)
- St. Nicholas Chapel, Landwade.
- "The church of St. Nicholas, a private chapel of the Cotton family, is an ancient
structure, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a low embattled
western tower : it contains several monuments to the Cottons; divine service is held
here during the summer on the first and third Sunday afternoons."
[Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]
- Church of England
- Landwade, St. Nicholas:
The registers are at the church from 1701. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years
1638-1641 can be found in the Suffolk Record Office and copies on microfilm for 1638-39
and 1641 can be found in the Cambridgeshire Archives. Transcripts exist from the
Exning registers, in the Cambridgeshire Archives, for baptisms 1693-1736, marriages
1695-1736 and burials 1693-1734 (photocopies). Further photocopies exist for burials
1788-1835.
- Two courts cover Landwade as follows:
- Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury:
Jurisidiction in various parishes including Landwade which were in the diocese of
Norwich until they were transferred to the diocese of Ely in 1837.
- Records are held at the
Suffolk Record Office covering Wills, 1439-1857, administrations,
1544-46, 1568-93, 1605-12, 1630-1858, inventories, 1573-76, 1617, 1625, 1640, 1650-1747. Index
to wills to 1535 are published in
Proceedings of Suffolk Institute of Archaeology,
volume 12 and of all records to 1700 in the Index Library of the British Records
Society, volumes 95 and 96.
- Consistory Court of Norwich:
Records are held at the Norfolk Record Office. Wills 1370-1857, administrations,
1370-1499, 1549-1640, 1666-1857, inventories, 1584-1846. There is an index to wills
covering 1370-1857 published by the Norfolk Record Society, volumes 16, 21, 34, 38
and 47.
- Land Tax:
records were compiled afresh each year and contain the names of owners and occupiers
in each parish, but usually there is no address or place name. These records reside
in the Cambridgeshire Archives for the years 1710, 1798 (on microfilm), 1829-32,
1878-88 and 1931-48.
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