SAWTRY JUDITH
[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]
"SAWTRY JUDITH, an extra parochial place, in the hundred of Norman
Cross, county Huntingdon, 4 miles south-east of Stilton. It was formerly a
separate parish, but is now annexed to Sawtry All Saints. A Cistercian
abbey was founded here in 1146 by Simeon de St. Liz, Earl of Northampton,
which flourished till the Dissolution, when its revenue was returned at
£141 3s. 8d., and the site given to the Cromwells. It includes a large
tract of woodland, chiefly oak, called Monks' Wood. The church has long
been demolished. Roman urns and other antiquities were found here in 1772.
[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2013
- There is no surviving churchyard to the church of St Mary.
- Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the
Huntingdon Records Office.
- The full 1841 Census of Sawtry is available as fiche set C111.
- The full 1851 Census of Sawtry is available as fiche set C61.
- A Surname Index of the 1881 Census of the Huntingdon Registration District, in which Sawtry (St.) Judith was
enumerated (RG11/1601, Folios 58a - 62b), and which took place on 3rd April 1881, is available as fiche set C3.
- A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Sawtry sub-District of the Huntingdon Registration District
(RG12/1235) in which Sawtry (St.) Judith was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, has also
been produced by the Huntingdonshire FHS (as Fiche C-7).
- The above mentioned fiche sets are available from the
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
- There is now no church in Sawtry Judith, nor has there been since 1573.
- There are no surviving church records remaining for Sawtry Judith. The local population used the parish churches of Sawtry All Saints or Sawtry St Andrew.
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