Colworth Farm, Bedfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
COLWORTH FARM, is a parish, in Bedfordshire. It was an extra parochial parish until 1858. However, it was abolished in 1895; at which time it became part of the Sharnbrook parish.

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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.
 * See England Civil Registration for online resources and information.

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

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain