Barnwell Parish Registers

[Keithchr]

Hello 

Does anyone have access to the above please?

I am searching for the baptism of SARAH STEARN, born in Barnwell, Cambs, abt 1811.
By 1841 she was married (in 1834) to James PURSER and living in London.

Parents names unknown.

Any help or direction would be gratefully received.

Thank you 

[suffolk*sue]

Theres this one on Camdex


1813 /STEARN Sarah /1yr. /of  St.Clements Par. /d. of John & Elizabeth /Camb. St.Giles

Can't see anything listed for Barnwell. She could have been born in Barnwell and baptised elsewhere.

[suffolk*sue]

A couple of marriages on Boyds index.


1810 / STEARN  JN / MORLY  ELZ / CAMBRIDGE ST BENEDICT 
 
1811 / STEARN  JN / FEW  ELZ  /CAMBRIDGE ST EDWARD 

[Keithchr]

Thank you Sue, very much much for your help.

Keith 

[Loates]

The parish church of Barnwell was St Andrew the Less, now a Cambridge parish.

Andy Loates

[Redroger]

I thought that St. Andrew the Less was a Cambridge city parish at least throughout the 19th century.

[Loates]

Re:- Barnwell.
Barnwell was a small settlement to the east of Cambridge way back and first settled by a Saxon hermit who built the original chuirch dedicated to St Andrew. Barnwell 'open fields' stretched between the village and Cambridge and when these fields were 'enclosed' in the first decade of the19th century, Cambridge spread out towards Barnwell. This became a notorious slum by the middle of that century. The medieval church of St Andrew the Less is still there but as Barnwell grew a new church, Christ Church on Newmarket Road became the parish church although the parish is still called St Andrew the Less. Early census returns still refer to St Andrew the Less 'otherwise Barnwell'. I have a CFHS issue of the parish registers so will look up your query.    Be lucky    Andy Loates

[Loates]

Whoops,

There is an easier way. Go to the Cambridgeshire Family History Society website, scroll down to 'Searchable Databases' then to the Baptism Index 1801 -1837. This will give you all you need to know but allow for variant spellings e.g Sterne, Stearn et al

Andy

[Redroger]

Interesting stuff. I remember my grandmother telling me that she had been born and brought up in Cambridge Place, which was apparently a horrendous slum area, though it seemed to border on large expensive houses in Cambridge where she and many others worked as domestic staff. This post would appear to bear that out.