Billington, Bedfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Billington, Bedfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy:parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Billington, Bedfordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Manshead |
| County | Bedfordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Leighton Buzzard |
| Registration District | Leighton Buzzard |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1653; For more records see Leighton Buzzard | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1606 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Dunstable |
| Diocese | Pre-1846 - Lincoln; Post 1845 - Ely |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Peculiar of Leighton Buzzard |
| Location of Archive | |
| Bedfordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BILLINGTON, is a chapelry in Leighton-Buzzard parish, Bedfordshire; it is on the River Ouse and the Leighton and Luton railway, 2 miles SE of Leighton-Buzzard. There is a Wesleyan chapel. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Billington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2] | |||||
| NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[3] |
| Billington Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1609-1877 | 1842-1885 | ||||
| NBI | 1611-1851 | |||||
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[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
- Primitive Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist.
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
- Leighton Buzzard
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
- Leighton Buzzard
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John M. Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)] Date accessed: 31st October 2013.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Bedfordshire, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 21 April 2014.
- ↑ 'National Burial Index - Bedfordshire Coverage,' findmypast (WayBack Machine), accessed 17 April 2014.
