Caddington, Hertfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Caddington, a parish in the hundred of Flitt, county of Bedford, but chiefly in the hundred of Dacorum, county of Hertford, 1 3/4 miles (W.S.W.) from Luton with a portion of the chapelry of Market-Street (Markyate). The church, dedicated to All Saints, is in Bedfordshire.

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
Caddington 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.

Market Street chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Parish registers for Market Street, 1855-1972 Market-Street (St. John's Church) is a Church of England chapelry in the parish of Caddington.

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 FamilySearch Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

1626 Subsidy

 * 1626 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/329 membrane 2 dorse) has been microfilmed:.

1628 Subsidies

 * 1628 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/331 roll 2) has been microfilmed:.


 * 1628 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/333 roll 1) has been microfilmed:.


 * 1628 Lay Subsidy (E179/121/336 roll 2) has been microfilmed:.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Hertfordshire 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
Contributor: Add information about the pertinent poor law unions in the area.

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

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