Swineshead, Bedfordshire Family History Guide

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Swineshead Ancient Parish was situated in the county of Huntingdonshire until it was transferred in 1888 to Bedfordshire.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Nicholas

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1548
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Five Bells Public House, Swineshead 1924
Five Bells Public House, Swineshead 1924

Swineshead 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.

Swineshead, Bedfordshire Baptisms, 1548-1812

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Swineshead, Bedfordshire Marriages, 1549-1836

Swineshead Parish Registers 1649-1812

The Swineshead Parish Registers 1649-1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Swineshead Parish Registers 1649-1812 Bedfordshire Parish Registers Edited by F. G. Emmison, Clerk of Records, Bedfordshire. Published under the auspices of the County Records Committee of the Bedfordshire County Council, and of the Ven. the Archdeacon of Bedford. Volume VII. Bedford: County Record Office, Shire Hall. 1933.

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Swineshead Parish Registers 1649 – 1812 Bedfordshire Parish Registers Edited by F. G. Emmison, Clerk of Records, Bedfordshire.

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SWINESHEAD, a parish in St. Neots district, Hunts; 3 miles SW of Kimbolton r. station. Post town, Kimbolton, under St. Neots. Acres, 1,330. Real property, £1,759. Pop., 275. houses, 61. The manor belongs to the Duke of Manchester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £300. Patron, the Duke of Manchester. The church is good, and has a spire.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

SWINESHEAD (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of St. Neot’s, hundred of Leightonstone, county of Huntingdon, though locally in the hundred of Stodden, county of Bedford, 3½ miles (S. W. by W.) from the town of Kimbolton; containing 294 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £12. 13. 6½., and in the gift of the Duke of Manchester; the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1808.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Historical Maps

OS Grid Reference: TL0563965884 (all-numeric format: 505640 265885)

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Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire; Bedfordshire (from 1888)
  • Civil Registration District: St Neots
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
  • Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Leightonstone (until 1863), St Neots (1863-1914), Riseley (1914-1970), Sharnbrook (1970-)
  • Poor Law Union: St Neots
  • Rural Sanitary District: St Neots
  • Rural District: Eaton Socon (1894-1934), Bedford (1934 to 1974)
  • Hundred: Leightonstone
  • Province: Canterbury