Bedfordshire, England Genealogy

England Bedfordshire

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

County Information
BEDFORDSHIRE, or Beds, an inland county; bounded on the NW by Northampton, on the NE by Huntingdon, on the E by Cambridge, on the SE and the S by Herts, and on the SW and W by Bucks. Its length southward is 35 miles; its greatest breadth, 22½ miles; its circuit, about 145 miles; and its area 295,582 acres. ..

Parishes

 * List of parishes.
 * Interactive map of Bedfordshire Parishes.

Civil Districts

 * List of Bedfordshire civil registration districts.

Websites

 * Bedfordshire websites
 * Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service
 * Bedfordshire Family History Society--and others--listed on the Bedfordshire societies GENUKI page
 * Bedfordshire Resources and help pages on RootsChat Bedfordshire Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * To view a further list of web sites and/or web pages for Bedfordshire and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.

Cemeteries
Jones, Horace E. Some Irish Monumental Inscriptions in England. This article is a selection of Irish Monumental Inscriptions throught various English Counties. 1744-1916. collected by Horace E. Jones. Article found in The Irish Ancestors Vol.1, no. 2 1969, pages 97-103 found at Family History Library 941.5 B2i

Put on Bedfordshire Civil Registration
When civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Bedfordshire was divided into a number of registration districts, each containing several parishes. The index to the civil records gives the name of the district where an event took place. Click [ here] to see a list of the civil districts in Bedfordshire and the parishes covered by each. Read more about England Civil Registration.