Knotting Bedfordshire Family History Guide

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Knotting is an Ancient Parish in the county of Bedfordshire.

Status: Ancient Parish

Alternative names: Notting

Parish church: St. Margaret

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1592
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Knotting 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.

Knotting, Bedfordshire Baptisms, 1592-1879

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Knotting, Bedfordshire Marriages, 1603-1895

Knotting Parish Registers 1592-1812

The Knotting Parish Registers 1592-1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Knotting Parish Registers 1592-1812 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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Knotting Parish Registers 1592-1812 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

KNOTTING, or NOTTING, a parish, with a village, in the district and county of Bedford; adjacent to Northamptonshire, 2 miles NNE of Sharnbrook r. station, and 4½ SSE of Higham-Ferrers. Post town, Sharnbrook, under Bedford. Acres, 1,724. Real property, £1,887. Pop., 185. Houses, 31. The property belongs to the Duke of Bedford. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Souldrop, in the diocese of Ely. Value, £280. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The church has Saxon and Norman portions; consists of nave, S chapel, and chancel, with wooden porch and square tower; and, in 1866, was about to be restored and partially rebuilt.

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

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

1731 30th April. Examination of Peter Jones, apprehended in the parish of Knotting for begging and wandering.
He deposes that he was born at Leghorn in Italy, and is now about 37 years of age. That when he was about seven years of age he went from Leghorn to Malaga, where he stayed five years, and then went on board a merchant ship belonging to the port of Leghorn. That he went to Portugal being about 16 years of age. That at Lisbon he was pressed into the English service and went on board an English man-of-war, and has ever since been in the said service, either as a soldier or a mariner on board the said man-of-war and a merchant ship, and that about a fortnight ago he landed at Portsmouth. Being asked if he could speak Italian, and being required to render some plain and easy English words into the Italian tongue, he declared that he did not understand Italian, except that he knew about 100 Italian words, but cannot tell what they signify in English although he can talk English very well.

Historical Maps

OS Grid Reference: TL0011562370 (all-numeric format: 500116 262371)

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Administration

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