Stretham

• The Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyard of St. James 1723-1981 and in the public cemetery 1881-1985 are recorded in the Cambridge Records Office. These inscriptions are also available on microfiche from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Publications list (search)

• The Census Records from 1841-1891 can be found in the Cambridgeshire Archives and at Wisbech Library. In addition the 1851 Census for Stretham is available in full transcript form, on microfiche, from the Cambridgeshire Family History Society Publications list (search)

• St. James's Church, Stretham.
• St. George's Church, Little Thetford.
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • St. George's Church, Little Thetford

• "The church of St. James, which stands in the High street, is a fine old building of stone it the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and a western tower with lofty spire containing a clock and 5 bells: there is a very fine carved oak screen dating from 1440: the organ was enlarged and improved in 1907 by Mr. H. J. Lister: the church was thoroughly restored during the period 1876-87, at a cost of £4,400, and affords 350 sittings. The registers date from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Thetford annexed, joint net yearly value £794, including glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Samuel Stewart Stitt M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. The parish room at Stretham was built in 1886. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and a mission hall, erected here in 1884 for the use of the local branch of the London Evangelistic Mission; it has 400 sittings. A cemetery of one acre, formed in 1886, at a cost of £400, is under the control of the Parish Council."
• There is information about St. Georges Church, Little Thetford on the Wikipedia site.

• Church of England
  • Stretham, St James's: Records of baptisms 1558-1943, marriages 1558-1963, burials 1558-1956 and banns 1754-1812, 1825-1963 reside in the Cambridgeshire Archives. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1600-51 and 1661-1853 can be found in the Cambridge University Library. Indexed transcripts are also available for baptisms 1558-1861, marriages 1558-1917, burials 1558-1945, cemetery burials 1887-1967 at the Cambridgeshire Archives.
• A transcription of the Christenings 1599 - 1894, Marriages 1599 - 1963 and Burials 1599 - 1812 for Little Thetford is available on the Little Thetford website.
• Methodist Church
  • Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records exist for the Ely Wesleyan Circuit of which Stretham is part.

• Little Thetford parish council website.

• There is a considerable amount of information about Little Thetford on the Wikiepedia website.

• A transcript of the Stretham parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,
• A transcript of the Stretham parish entries from 1868 A brief history of Ely and neighbouring villages in the Isle' by J.H. Clements

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stretham to another place.

• There is a considerable amount of information about Little Thetford on the Wikiepedia website.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL508744 (Lat/Lon: 52.34694, 0.212437), Stretham which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The Stretham War Memorial has been transcribed and the men researched.
• The Little Thetford War Memorial has been transcribed and the men researched.

• 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 1750-1948; 1798 is on microfilm at Huntingdon Record Office.