dean

[patrish]

Can anyone please help me out here, 2 x gt grandfather born DEAN Bedfordshire, looked on some old county maps, no sign, I can only find a Dean in Oxfordshire.

Thanks Patrish

[johnP-bedford]

Hello Patrish

Thanks to Genuki for this

DEAN is a village and parish, divided into Nether and Upper Dean, on the borders of Northamptonshire and Hunts, 4 miles west from Kimbolton station on the Kettering and Huntingdon section of the Midland railway, 14 north from Bedford and 6 south-east from Higham Ferrers, in the Northern division of the county, Sharnbrook petty sessional division, hundred of Stodden, union of St. Neots, county court district of Thrapston, rural deanery of Risely, archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Ely.

[Extract from Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]

regards John

[patrish]

Thanks John, have found it now, hope it will help me to find his birth.

Patrish