Stibbington

• Monumental inscriptions for this parish have not been recorded by the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS. However, Peterborough & District FHS have an interest in the parish.

• Census information for this parish (1841 - 1891) is held in the Huntingdon Records Office.
• The full 1841 Census of Sibson-cum-Stibbington Parish is available as fiche set C82 from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
• The full 1851 Census of Sibson-cum-Stibbington Parish is available as fiche set C32 from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.
• A full transcription of the 1891 Census of the Huntingdonshire (Miscellaneous Parishes) Registration District, in which Stibbington was enumerated, and which took place on 5th April 1891, is available, as Fiche C-16, from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.

• The Church of St. John the Baptist, Stibbington.

• The church of St John the Baptist consists of a chancel with vestry and organ chamber on the north, a nave, north aisle with northern annex, south aisle and south porch. The walls are of rubble with stone dressings, and the roofs are covered with stone slates.
• The church, and that that was formerly at Sibson, are both mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, but apparently the church was rebuilt in stone as a chancel and aisleless nave in the middle of the 12th century, and the nave of this period remains. In about 1180 a north aisle was added. In 1240 the chancel was rebuilt on a larger scale with its axis further to the south, and some 20 years later a south aisle was added to the nave. A west tower was also added, probably in the 15th century.
• In 1848-49, the west tower was pulled down, the two aisles rebuilt and the vestry, organ chamber and porch built. At the same time, a timber bell-cote was added to the nave roof.

• The following are available in the Huntingdon Records Office.
  • Baptisms: 1595-1705, 1706-1792, 1793-1812, 1813-1853.
  • Banns: 1755-1781 (microfilm), 1823-1889.
  • Marriages: 1596-1705, 1706-1753, 1755-1780 (microfilm), 1782-1812, 1813-1837, 1837-1963.
  • Burials: 1596-1705/6, 1706-1792/3, 1793-1812, 1813-1895.
  • Bishop's Transcripts: 1605, 1607-8, 1612, 1617-19, 1625-7, 1660-8/1679-80, 1682-5, 1685, 1690-1, 1693-5, 1698-1702, 1704-6, 1708-19, 1721-85, 1787-1803, 1805-1813/1813-24/1825-47, 1849-66.
• The Huntingdonshire Marriage Indexes include marriages from this parish. These are, at present, issued in alphabetical listings in series: 1601-1700, and 1701-1754, and are available from the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire FHS.

• Sibson-cum-Stibbington was originally in the Stamford Registration District of Lincolnshire from 1st July 1837. Subsequently it was transferred to the Barnack sub-District of Huntingdonshire. It was then later transferred to the Peterborough Registration District.
• From 1st April 1998, marriage records were transferred to the Huntingdon Registry Office, but the births and burial records were retained by Peterborough.

• A transcript of the Stibbington parish entries from 1932 Victoria County Series
• A transcript of the Stibbington parish entries from Samuel Lewis's 1835 Topographical Dictionary of England,

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You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL087987 (Lat/Lon: 52.575265, -0.397402), Stibbington which are provided by:

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• The war memorial with detailed information about those who fell is available on the Roll of Honour site for Huntingdonshire.

• Stibbington:
  • Stebintone (xi cent.),
  • Stybyngton (xiv cent.),
  • Stepington (xvi cent.).
• Sibson:
  • Sibeston,
  • Siberstune (xi-xii cents.),
  • Sybston (xvi cent.).
• Wansford:
  • Walmesford (xiii cent.),
  • Wanesford (xvi cent.).

• The parish of Sibson-cum-Stibbington was in the Stamford Union of Lincolnshire for Poor Law administration.

• Population in 1801 - 324.
• Population in 1851 - 790.
• Population in 1901 - 426.
• Population in 1951 - 682.
• Population in 1971 - 388.
• Population in 1991 - 461.