Eastcotts, Bedfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
EASTCOTTS, is a township, in the parish of Cardington, the hundred of Wixamtree, union and county of Bedford, it is 3½ miles SE from the town of Bedford; The hamlets of Cotton-End, Harrowden, and Fenlake, are in Eastcotts.

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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
Eastcotts is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Cople.
 * Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
 * The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

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
See Cardington parish

Maps and Gazetteers
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