Dry Drayton Local History and Family History
LOCAL HISTORY
We have assembled a wide range of links to material relating to the History of Dry Drayton which we hope will be of interest to local and family historians.
- Fragments of Time: Dry Drayton in the 1900s - Dry Drayton on Youtube
- Dry Drayton Chronicle: 160 Years of Dry Drayton in the News
- Who lived in Dry Drayton ?
- Dry Drayton Photographs
- Village Memories in writing
- "Dry Drayton In April" a poem by Frank Kendon 1923
- Local Antiquities
- Village Features over the years: Pubs, Mills, Reading Rooms, Village Hall, Post Office, Methodist Chapel
- Old portraits of Dry Drayton folks
- WW2 local aircraft crashes. We received a request from a local historian for information about a fatal wartime aircraft crash near the village. As a result we circulated an appeal from which we have assembled information on a number of crashes.
- Village History Quiz. How well do you know your village? Try our quiz: historyquiz.asp
- Beating the Bounds - living village history
- Other resources
FAMILY HISTORY
• Local Families looking for information and contacts
This link will take you to a page relating to the history of families with local Dry Drayton connections.
• Family History Resources available
The two major databases for family historians, Ancestry and Findmypast, are both available free at Cambridgeshire Libraries.
The Times and Guardian are also available there free. You will need your Cambridgeshire library card and PIN.
• If you are interested in tracing your family history you will find membership of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society very useful. They have extensive online resources and can offer free help and advice from fellow enthusiasts www.cfhs.org.uk.
The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society have transcribed the Dry Drayton parish registers: all the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages and Burials 1564-1959 - you can get these for just £9.60 as a download or on a CD (also included are transcripts from Knapwell 1598-1959).
• The Victoria County History is now available online. This link takes you to Vol 9 for Cambridgeshire and this link will take you to the introductory material on the history of Dry Drayton, from which you can access the other articles on the village.