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Offline cathymcc

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Link: Bedfordshire Archives online
« on: Saturday 04 June 05 11:59 BST (UK) »
Beds Archives are puting all their holdings online [and the site is growing daily!]:

http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/ArchivesAndRecordOffice.aspx

For surviving Wills you need to contact the archivist though...
 
The County Archivist
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service
County Hall,
Bedford
MK42 9AP
telephone number: (01234) 228833 or 228777 or 363222 ext.2833
fax number:  (01234) 228854




 
Bedfordshire: Worker [Flitton]; Ames [Kempston]; Manton [Kempston]; Morris [?]; Valentine [Kempston]; Two & Osborn [Cranfield]

Herfordshire and West London: Brown [Kent in early 19th C]; Blackwell.
McCarthy [Clonakilty, County Cork - searching for needles in the haystack!] and LOSTY [Dublin]

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Re: Bedfordshire Archives online
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 05 June 05 16:57 BST (UK) »
Just like to add that the archivists there are extremely helpful.  ;) Jan
ALL CENSUS DATA INCLUDED IN POSTINGS IS CROWN COPYRIGHT, FROM  www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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Re: Bedfordshire Archives online
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 05 June 05 23:23 BST (UK) »
I'll second that.

I've had so much help and the service is excellent.

Diane
Stevenson,Seabrook,Gravestock,Lee - Cambs. Geden and varients -  Warks. Oxf. Green- Beds and London. Foster, Little - Essex. Sheldrick - Surrey and London? Smith - Bucks. Coulling - Oxf.

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Re: Link: Bedfordshire Archives online
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 08 September 19 11:22 BST (UK) »
Knight (Nottingham & Hants) Hancock, (Kent) , Hancox (Warwickshire), Linneys (Hants) Brothers (Langford, Beds,East London), Bridgers (East London)

Other restorers please feel free to use my work if wished


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Re: Link: Bedfordshire Archives online
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 08 September 19 11:36 BST (UK) »
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Partridge - North Beds; Northants & Peterborough
Bishop - Bedford; Hunts, Hemingford Grey
Allen - Hunts, Hemingford Abbotts
Clement - Croydon
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