Shefford Hardwick, Bedfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
SHEFFORD HARDWICK, is an extra - parochial liberty, in the union of Biggleswade, it is in the hundred of Clifton, county of Bedford. It is 8 3/4 miles SE of Bedford.

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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
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Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * Baptists

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

 * Biggleswade

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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