Sharnbrook Bedfordshire Family History Guide

Sharnbrook is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1595
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Old Baptists, Calvinistic Baptists, Methodists

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SHARNBROOK, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district and county of Bedford. The village stands on the river Ouse, near the Leicester and Hitchin railway, 7½ miles NNW of Bedford; is a polling-place; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office under Bedford.

The parish comprises 2,880 acres. Real property, £3,690. Pop., 867. Houses, 171. The manor belongs to Admiral Gambier. S. House, Colworth, and Waterside House are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £150. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good, and has a tower and spire. There are two Baptist chapels and a national school; and one of the chapels was enlarged in 1865. The sub-district contains six parishes and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 13,683. Pop., 2,894. Houses, 593.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Sharnbrook Parish Registers 1596 – 1812

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London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869

The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.

Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.

Watkins, James, of St. Margaret, Westminster, gent., bachelor, about 26, and Elizabeth Cobb, spinster, about 25, consent of her mother, Elizabeth Cobb, of Sharmbrooke, co. Beds, widow — at Sharmbrooke, Thurleigh, or Oakley, CO. Beds. 3 Feb. 1675/6. V.

Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887