Stotfold Bedfordshire Family History Guide

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Stotfold is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1559
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends, Calvinistic Baptists, Wesleyans Methodists, Baptists, Primitive Methodists

Adjacent Parishes

Stotfold Dark Lane
Stotfold Brook Street

Stotfold 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.

Stotfold, Bedfordshire Baptisms, 1559-1880

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Stotfold, Bedfordshire Marriages, 1563-1886

Death and Burial Records

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

Stotfold, Bedfordshire Burials, 1752-1865

Stotfold Parish Registers 1559-1812

The Stotfold Parish Registers 1559-1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Stotfold Parish Registers 1559-1812 Bedfordshire Parish Registers Edited by F. G. Emmison, F.R.Hist.S. Volume 38. Bedford 1948.

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Stotfold Parish Registers 1559-1812 Bedfordshire Parish Registers Edited by F. G. Emmison, F.R.Hist.S. Volume 38. Bedford 1948.

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Quarter Sessions Rolls

The following have been extracted from the Notes & Extracts from the Bedfordshire County Records comprised in the Quarter Sessions Rolls from 1714 to 1832 compiled by Messrs. Hardy & Page, Record Agents

1730 15th April. Depositions of Elizabeth, wife of John Collett. that Daniel Britton of Stotfold, carpenter, offered to kiss her in the house of Eden Smith, and upon her refusal assaulted her.

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Pestell James, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, miller and oil cake dealer, Feb. 3, 1832.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STOTFOLD, a parish, with a large village, in Biggleswade district, Beds; 2¼ miles NW by W of Baldock r. station. It has a post-office under Baldock. Acres, 2,323. Real property, £6,100. Pop. in 1851, 1,395; in 1861, 2,071, of whom 484 were in the Beds, Herts, and Hunts lunatic asylum. Houses, 324. The property is subdivided. The lunatic asylum is a recent, extensive and ornate edifice; and stands conspicuously on high ground. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £242. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is good. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed boys’ school, a national school, seven alms houses, and some other charities.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

STOTFOLD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Biggleswade, hundred of Clifton, county of Bedford, 2½ miles (N. W.) from Baldock; containing 1026 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £5. 17. 1.; income, £185; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school is endowed with £20 per annum.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Directory Transcriptions

Kelly’s Directory of the Wine and Spirit Trades, with which are included Brewers and Maltsters 1884

Marked thus * are Small Brewers who brew the beer they sell.

STOTFOLD, Baldock

Brewer
Flitton George

Source: The Post office directory of the brewers and maltsters [afterw.] Kelly’s directory of the wine and spirit trades, with which are included brewers and maltsters By Kelly’s directories, ltd. 1884

Administration

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