Whipsnade, Hertfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Whipsnade is an Ancient parish partly in Bedfordshire and partly in Hertfordshire. The main part of this parish is located 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
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene is the Anglican church in this area. Their registers date from 1682.

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.

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
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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