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.

Adjacent Parishes

• Lower Gravenhurst
• Offley, Hertfordshire
• Higham Gobion
• Hexton, Hertfordshire
• Upper Gravenhurst
• Meppershall
• Upper Stondon
• Holwell
• Ickleford, Hertfordshire
• Pirton, Hertfordshire
• Lilley, Hertfordshire
• Hitchin Hertfordshire
• Henlow 

Shillington 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.

Shillington, Bedfordshire Baptisms, 1559-1885

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Shillington, Bedfordshire Marriages, 1560-1884

Death and Burial Records

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

Shillington, Bedfordshire Burials, 1606-1868

Shillington Parish Registers 1543-1812

The Shillington Parish Registers 1543-1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Shillington Parish Registers 1543-1812 Bedfordshire Parish Registers Edited by F. G. Emmison, F.R.Hist.S. Volume 36. Bedford 1947.

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.

Parish History

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].

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

Historical Maps

OS Grid Reference: TL1226933036 (all-numeric format: 512269 233036)

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Administration

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