Clophill, Bedfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CLOPHILL (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Amphill, the hundred of Flitt, and county of Bedford, it is 1 mile NE from Silsoe. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Primitive Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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.

Registration District

 * Ampthill

Poor Law Unions

 * Ampthill

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.

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Clophill on GENUKI