Society of Genealogists - England: Bedfordshire Resources

Bedfordshire

Shelf Mark: BE

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials in Bedfordshire include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Bedfordshire & Northamptonshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter]. Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 9, part 1: Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire. London: SoG, 1991 [TB/PR]. Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Bedfordshire parish registers index: a master index to the transcribed registers for Bedfordshire parishes to 1812, version 2.33 [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] and available on-line at FamilySearch

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1645-1838 & 1665-1731, M 1658-1836 & 1667-1713, B 1656-1838 & 1656-1796 ... [Microfilm] [Mf 3370]

Society of Friends marriages in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, London & Middlesex [1660-1836]: Hertfordshire marriages, vol. 6 [Typescript] [HT/R 66]

Genealogia Bedfordiensis, being a collection of evidences relating chiefly to the landed gentry of Bedfordshire, 1538-1700, collected out of parish registers, the bishop’s transcripts, early wills, monumental inscriptions etc., with MS additions [BE/G 26]

Materies genealogica, 1 [References to Bedfordshire people from monumental inscriptions & parish registers in other counties]: offprint from Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 2 [BE/G 22]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

The history & antiquities of the Hundred of Willey in the County of Bedford [contains CMB 1554-1867 extracts, extracts of monumental inscriptions from 18 parishes, extracts for Bromham 1504-1603 & a list of Turvey wills 1560-1608] [Store A]

Marriage Licences

Calendars of Huntingdonshire wills 1479-1652 [also marriage licences 1517 & 1610-14]: British Record Society Index Library, vol. 42 [BRS 42]

Bedfordshire marriage licences preserved in the Bedfordshire Archdeaconry records, parts 1-2: 1747-90 & 1791-1812 with an appendix 1578-1618: Bedfordshire parish registers, vols. 14-15 [BE/R 14-15]

Bedfordshire marriage licence allegations vols. 81-82: 1813-48 & 1848-85 [Microfiche] [BE/REG/99093 & 99094]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) in Bedfordshire include:

A List of monumental tombs & inscriptions in Bedfordshire which have been transcribed & illustrated: Bedfordshire monumental inscriptions | vol. 9 [Manuscript] [BE/M 38]

Materies genealogica, 1 [References to Bedfordshire people from monumental inscriptions & parish registers in other counties]: offprint from Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 2 [BE/G 22]

A Summary catalogue of monumental art existing in parish churches - Bedfordshire: Topographer & genealogist, vol. 1 [PER/TOP]

Ye old mortality: Bedfordshire, part index: Bedfordshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 8 [Typescript] [BE/M 36]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.

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Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists, ed. by Newington-Irving, N J N. Society of Genealogists, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

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Periodicals

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

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Parishes

A-E

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Bedfordshire.

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F-R

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Bedfordshire.

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S-Z

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Bedfordshire.

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