Caddington, Bedfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
CADDINGTON, (All Saints), is a parish, in the union of Luton, and partly in the hundred of Flitt, the county of Bedford. The majority of the parish is in the county of Hertford. A portion of the chapelry of Market-Street (Markyate) is in the Caddington parish.

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.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Wesleyan Methodist

Aley Green: Methodist: Baptisms 1892-1938: Transcriptions courtesy of Steven Gibbs

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

 * Luton

Poor Law Unions

 * Luton

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

Websites
Caddington on GENUKI