Bletsoe, Bedfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BLETSOE, is a parish in the district and county of Bedford; it is on the river Ouse, and on the Midland railway, 1½ miles SSE of Sharnbrook railway station, and 6 NNW of Bedford.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

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

 * Bedford

Poor Law Unions

 * Bedford Poor Law Union

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
Bletsoe on GENUKI