Cavendish, Suffolk

Location

Cavendish is an ancient parish located in the south-west of the county of Suffolk.

Cavendish is approximately twenty miles west of the county town of Ipswich with Colchester, Essex some twenty miles to the south-west.

Parish Church

The Parish (CofE) Church is St Mary which can be found here on Google Street View.

Parish Registers

Suffolk Archives appears not to publish on their website information regarding individual surviving parish registers, but does offer a PDF listing of information they offer on microfiche. See https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PARISH-REGS-ON-FICHE-FILM-.pdf (Accessed 8 Aug 2023). For Cavendish those records cover the years 1594 to 1900.

For details of Suffolk Parish records which are available online see FamilySearch's page https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Suffolk_Church_Records#Parish_Records_Online (accessed 3 Mar 2023)

Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes

To the north-east of Cavendish lies Hartest. To the east is Glemsford. To the south is Pentlow and Belchamp St Paul, both in Essex. To the west are Clare and Poslingford. To the north is Stansfield and Hawkedon.

Gleanings from

• Cavendish Census Returns
  • 1851 Census Cavendish