Ridgmont Bedfordshire Family History Guide

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Ridgmont is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.

Status: Ancient Parish

Alternative names: Segenhoe

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1539
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Calvinist Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

RIDGMONT High Street, Bedfordshire
RIDGMONT Church and School, Bedfordshire

Ridgmont Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of parish register baptisms.

Ridgmont, Bedfordshire Baptisms, 1539-1911

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of parish register marriages and banns.

Ridgmont, Bedfordshire Marriages, 1539-1936

Death and Burial Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of parish register deaths and burials.

Ridgmont, Bedfordshire Burials, 1669-1852

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.

Price, Edward, of the Inner Temple, gent., bachelor, 30, and Susannah Dodsworth, spinster, 21, daughter of Francis Dodsworth, of Regdment [i.e., Ridgemont], Beds, esq., who consents — at Chargrave, co. Beds, or … . 4 Sept. 1693. F.  

Stone, Richard; Licen’ mronij inter Richum Stone, de Richmount in com Bedford Ar et celebem et Dorotheam Loe vel Lee vid in Ecctia …. com Hertford vel …. London. 16 Jan. 1661/2. F. [This entry is on a reversed leaf at the end of the volume.] 

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RIDGMONT, a village and a parish in Woburn district, Beds. The village stands 1 mile SSE of a station of its own name on the Bedford and Bletchley railway, and 2¾ N E of Woburn; and has a post-office under Woburn. The parish comprises 2,248 acres. Real property, £2,814. Pop., 1,029. Houses, 217. The manor and most of the land belong to the Duke of Bedford.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £233. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The new church was built in 1855; and is in the decorated English style, with tower and spire. The old church is now used only for burials. There are a large Baptist chapel, a handsome Wesleyan chapel, a national school, a British school, and charities £70.

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

Historical Maps

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Administration

  • County: Bedfordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Woburn
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Bedford
  • Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Fleete
  • Poor Law Union: Woburn
  • Hundred: Redbornestoke
  • Province: Canterbury