Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LEIGHTON BUZZARD (All Saints), is a market town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Manshead, county of Bedford and on the boundary with Buckinghamshire; there are chapelries in the hamlets of Billington, Eggington, Heath with Reach andStanbridge. There are chapels for the Baptists, Society of Friends, and Wesleyans.

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.

Church records
Leighton Buzzard All Saints parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Leighton Buzzard St Andrew parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Baptists
 * Methodists
 * Peculiar Baptists
 * Primitive Methodists
 * Roman Catholic
 * Society of Friends (Quakers)
 * Wesleyans

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

 * Leighton Buzzard

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
Leighton Buzzard on GENUKI