Bedford St. Cuthbert, Bedfordshire Family History Guide
By 1974 St. Cuthbert’s was redundant and sold to the Harpur Trust who subsequently presented it to the Polish Community of Bedford who renamed it as the Polish Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Cuthbert.
Status: Ancient Parish
Parish church: St. Cuthbert
Chapels of ease:
- Christ Church, Goldington Road (originally built in 1883 in Castle Road)
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1607
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Moravians; as well as the Primitive Episcopal
Parishes adjacent to Bedford St. Cuthbert
St. Cuthbert Parish Registers 1602 – 1812
- The Parish Register of St. Cuthbert Bedford 1602 – 1812
- St. Cuthbert Bedford Baptisms 1602 – 1812
- St. Cuthbert Bedford Marriages 1602 – 1812
- St. Cuthbert Bedford Burials 1602 – 1812
Administration
- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Bedford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
- Rural Deanery: Bedford
- Poor Law Union: Bedford
- Hundred: Bedford Borough
- Province: Canterbury