Biggleswade, Bedfordshire Genealogy

England Bedfordshire  Bedfordshire Parishes

Guide to Biggleswade, Bedfordshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites

Parish History
Biggleswade, is a town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a hundred, in Bedfordshire. It is adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 10½ miles ESE of Bedford, and 41 miles NNW of London. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Methodists. The town has a post office. The parish includes the hamlets of Holme and Stratton.

BIGGLESWADE (St. Andrew), besides being a market-town and parish, is the head of a union, in the hundred of Biggleswade, county of Bedford, 10½ miles (E. S. E.) from Bedford, and 45 (N. N. W.) from London, on the road to York.

Census records
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Church records
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.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Non-Conformist Churches
Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist*
 * Wesleyan Methodist.

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.

Registration District

 * Biggleswade

Poor Law Unions

 * Biggleswade

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain