Bledlow Ridge, Buckinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Bledlow Ridge, Buckinghamshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BLEDLOW RIDGE was originally a hamlet in the parish of Bledlow. It separated from Bledlow in 1868 when a new chapel, dedicated to St. Paul, was constructed. Bledlow Ridge is three miles from church in Bledlow. There is also a Wesleyan meetinghouse at Bledlow Ridge. BLEDLOW (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Wycombe, hundred of Aylesbury, county of Buckingham, 5½ miles (E. S. E.) from Thame.

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
Bledlow Ridge parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Because Bledlow Ridge was part of Bledlow until 1868, also check the records for Bledlow.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Wesleyan Methodist

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Buckinghamshire 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

Websites
Bledlow Ridge on GENUKI