Podington, Bedfordshire Genealogy

Guide to Podington, Bedfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
PODINGTON or PODDINGTON or PUDDINGTON (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Wellingborough, the hundred of Willey and county of Bedford. It is 5 miles N from Harrold; the hamlet of Hinwick is in Podington parish.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Bedfordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Unions

 * St Neots

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851 (search for Podington)
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Podington on GENUKI