Bayford is a chapelry of Essendon Ancient Parish in Hertfordshire.
Alternative names: Brickendon
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
- Hatfield St Mary
- Hertingfordbury
- Hertford All Saints with St John
- Little Berkhampstead
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BAYFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union, hundred, and county of Hertford, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Hertford; containing 357 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 1612 acres of land; the soil is clay. The living is annexed to the rectory of Essendon: the tithes have been commuted for £282. The church is a neat brick edifice, built by subscription in 1804, and containing an ancient octangular font ornamented with quatrefoils and roses.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch Catalog
Monumental inscriptions, Bayford, Hertford, England : abt. 1600-1900
Census returns for Bayford, 1841-1891
Bishop’s transcripts for Bayford, 1604-1869
Churchwarden’s accounts and miscellaneous parish records, 1709-1889
Diocese of St. Albans, parish of Bayford transcript of old register book of period 1538-1713
England, Hertfordshire, Bayford, parish registers
Marriages at Bayford, Hertfordshire, 1538-1837
Parish registers for Bayford, 1538-1950
Computer printout of Bayford, Herts., Eng
Militia lists, parish of Bayford Author: Hill, John
Administration
- County: Hertfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Hertford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division)
- Diocese: Post-1844 – Rochester, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Hertford
- Poor Law Union: Hertford
- Hundred: Hertford
- Province: Canterbury