Shillington Bedfordshire Family History

Shillington is an Ancient Parish partly in Bedfordshire and partly in Hertfordshire.

Alternative names: Shiltington, Shetlington

Other places in the parish include: Holywell, Lower Stondon and Pegsdon.

Status: Ancient Parish

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1543
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Shillington

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SHILLINGTON, or Shiltington, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Ampthill district, Beds. The village stands 3 miles WSW of Henlow r. station, and 5¼ NW of Hitchin; and has a post-office under Hitchin.

The parish contains also Pegsdon and Lower Stondon hamlets. Acres, 5,030. Real property, £8,393. Pop. in 1851, 1,598; in 1861, 1,788. Houses, 365. The manor belongs to the Rev. G. Musgrave. Coprolites are largely worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £128. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is decorated and later English. There are chapels for Independents and Methodists, a large school, a library and reading room, alms houses for four widows, and other charities, £13. The sub-district contains five parishes and a part. Acres, 12,242. Pop., 4,188. Houses, 869.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Shetlington, 3 miles S.E. Selsoe. P. 1411.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Holywell

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Holywell, in Shetlington parish. P. 182.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Lower Stondon

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Stondon (Lower), 4½ miles N.E. Selsoe. Popula, incl. in Shetlington.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

WESLEYAN CHAPEL & SUNDAY SCHOOL SHILLINGTON VILLAGE BEDFORDSHIRE

Parish Registers

Shillington Parish Registers 1543-1812

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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.

Skegnes, John, of the Middle Temple, gent., bachelor, 35, and Susanna Longueville, spinster, 24, daughter of Lucy Longueville, of Shidlington, Beds, widow, who consents — at Uxbridge, co. Middlesex, Fulmen, co. Bucks, or Shidlington aforesaid. 4 Aug. 1681. F

White, Thomas, of Parten, co. Herts, gent., widower, about 10, and Elizabeth Gibbs, of Shittlington, co. Beds, widow, about 28— at All Hallows-the-Great, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, or St. Giles, Cripplegate. 14 Oct. 1663. V.

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

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

1728 10th January. Certificate that the dwelling house of Sarah Norman, in the town of Shitlington is a place for the meeting of Protestant Dissenters.