Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Biggleswade |
| County | Bedfordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Biggleswade |
| Registration District | Biggleswade |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1701 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1602 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Shefford |
| Diocese | Pre-1837 - Lincoln; Post-1836 - Ely |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford |
| Location of Archive | |
| Bedfordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
COCKAYNE HATLEY or Hatley, Cockayne (St. John the Baptist), is a small parish in Bedfordshire that is on the border of Cambridgeshire, it is 3 miles east from the Potton station of the London and Northwestern Railway.[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]
Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire Genealogy 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] | |||||
| PALL = Pallot's Marriage Index (Ancestry) - (£)[4] |
| Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1602-1907 | 1602-1810 | ||||
| NBI | 1602-1855 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1810 | |||||
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]
None
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]
- Biggleswade
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
- Biggleswade
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]
Cockayne Hatley on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 441-444. Date accessed: 07 November 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.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Births Indexes: Guide to Parishes, n.d.
