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England Buckinghamshire  Milton Keynes

Guide to Milton Keynes history, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.



History
At the end of WWII, Britain was in urgent need for new houses to replace those lost in the bombing raids throughout the country. The Government proposed that several new areas be considered as "New Towns, or "New Cities". One of the unique (for Britain) was that these new towns would have a minimum of 30% of the total area left undeveloped, as parks and greenways.

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large town in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, of which it is the administrative center. It was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967, with the design brief to become a "city" in scale. It is located about 45 miles (72 km) north-west of London.

At designation, its 89 km2 (34 sq mi) area incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton, and Stony Stratford, along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between. It took its name from the existing village of Milton Keynes, a few miles east of the planned center.

At the 2011 census, the population of the Milton Keynes urban area, including the adjacent Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands, was 229,941. The population of the Borough in total was 248,800, compared with a population of around 53,000 for the same area in 1961.

Cemeteries (Civil)
There is one cemetery and one crematorium in the area of Milton Keynes. Information follows:

Whalley Drive Cemetery:


 * 22 Whalley Drive
 * Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 6HP
 * Phone: +44 1908 658112

Crownhill Crematorium


 * Crownhill
 * Milton Keynes MK8 0AH
 * +44 1908 568112

Parishes
There are 4 known Anglican churches in Milton Keynes. They follow:

St Mary's


 * Church Green Road
 * Bletchley
 * Milton Keynes MK6 3BJ
 * Phone: +44 1908 366531

Non Conformists

 * Baptist
 * Calvary Christian Fellowship
 * Christ Church, Fulwood
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
 * Eastern Orthodox
 * Full Life Church
 * Jehovah's Witness
 * Methodist
 * Presbyterian
 * Rock Christian Center
 * Roman Catholic
 * Seventh Day Adventist

Non Christian groups that meet regularly in Sheffield include:


 * Buddhist
 * Hindu
 * Jewish
 * Muslim
 * Sikh

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The following link provides access for Sheffield:


 * Births, Marriages, and Death Records for Sheffield


 * Ancestry.com


 * Yorkshire BMD records

Local Histories

 * Sheffield history


 * Sheffield City Histories


 * A History of Sheffield by David Hey


 * A History of Sheffield Steel by Geoffrey Howse

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Mapquest; Sheffield


 * Maps of the World; Sheffield


 * oldmapsonline; Sheffield


 * Sheffield City Council Gazetteer


 * genuki Sheffield Gazetteer

Newspapers

 * The Sheffield Star


 * The Sheffield Telegraph

Occupations
For many years Sheffield was preeminent in the manufacture of stainless steel products. Sheffield steel was synonymous with the finest flatware and tableware in the world. This has now long gone, with cheap imports from Asia taking all but the highest quality flatware away.

After many years of decline, the Sheffield economy is now going through a strong revival. The 2004 Barclays Bank Financial Planning study revealed that, in 2003, the Sheffield district of Hallam was the highest ranking area outside London for overall wealth, the proportion of people earning over £60,000 a year standing at almost 12%. A survey by Knight Frank revealed that Sheffield was the fastest-growing city outside London for office and residential space and rents during the second half of 2004. This growth is still accelerating.

Sheffield still has an international reputation for metallurgy and steel-making. Further innovations continue, with new advanced manufacturing technologies and techniques being developed on the Advanced Manufacturing Park by Sheffield's universities and other independent research organizations. Organizations located on the AMP include the Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC, a research partnership between the Boeing Company and the University of Sheffield), Castings Technology International (CTI), The Welding Institute (TWI), and William Cook Group. Employers such as Forgemasters, founded in 1805, and the sole remaining independent steel works in the world, dominates the north east of Sheffield around the Lower Don Valley. The firm has a global reputation for producing the largest and most complex steel forgings and castings and is certified to produce critical nuclear components, with recent projects including the Royal Navy's Astute class submarines. The firm also has the capacity for pouring the largest single ingot (570 tonnes) in Europe and is currently in the process of expanding its capabilities.

Sheffield is a major retail center, and is home to many High Street and department stores as well as designer boutiques. The main shopping areas in the city center are on The Moor precinct, Fargate, Orchard Square and the Devonshire Quarter. This sector provides major employment to many in the city and surrounding towns.

Sheffield also has a unique District Energy system that exploits the city's domestic waste, by incinerating it and converting the energy from it to electricity. It also provides hot water, which is distributed through over 25 miles (40 km) of pipes under the city, via two networks. These networks supply heat and hot water for many buildings throughout the city. These include not only cinemas, hospitals, shops and offices, but also universities (Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield), and residential properties. Energy generated in a waste plant produces 60 megawatts of thermal energy and up to 19 megawatts of electrical energy from 225,000 tonnes of waste.

Societies

 * Sheffield and District Family History Society


 * Rootsweb Yorkshire Genealogy


 * Genuki for Yorkshire


 * Yorkshire Family History Societies

Archives
Sheffield City Archives:


 * 52 Shoreham Street
 * Sheffield S1 4SP


 * 


 * The National Archives; Sheffield


 * Sheffield University Library Archives

Web Sites

 * wikipedia; Sheffield


 * Sheffield City Web Site