Sources for Researching Sharnbrook
Bedfordshire Archives holds many documents relating to the parish; a search of our online catalogue http://bedsarchivescat.bedford.gov.uk with Sharnbrook as the subject returns over 4900 items. Significant collections for researching people or places in Sharnbrook include:
- P112: Records for the parish of St Peter’s, including: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; records relating to church property; account books; parish magazines
- PCSharnbrook: Parish council records, including: minutes; financial records; documents relating to rights of way, planning and other local matters
- J1068: Enclosure, Sharnbrook: bound volume containing printed Act, text of award, and map of estate of Samuel Cornish Esq, in Sharnbrook, Souldrop, Bletsoe and Riseley.
- MA35/1: Enclosure plan, 1809 and Award Book K
- X1/7: Map "Manors of Tofte, Temple Hills, Sharnbrook and Subthorpe, Sam. Cornish, lord", 1765-1770
- PK1: Records of W & H Peacock, auctioneers and estate agents, property packets
- MC1/5/0/1: Books of reference to the first edition OS plans
- MB2/SHA: Sharnbrook Methodist Church
- CDE: Records of John Usher, Usher & Anthony, Deacon & Gude, Deacon & Laing, Charter Building Design Partnership and successors
- X992: Sharnbrook Old Baptist Chapel
- SDSharnbrook: Sharnbrook School [Church, National, Board, Council, CP, John Gibbard Lower]
- ABP/W: Wills proved in the Archdeaconry of Bedford, 1536-1857
- QSR: Quarter Sessions Records for Bedfordshire from 1714-1900. A search combining Sharnbrook as the subject and QSR as the reference will find criminal cases in which the parish is mentioned.
- GA: Messrs Garrard & Allen, Solicitors, Olney and F W Bull of Newport Pagnell
- X73: Sharnbrook, Wilden and Wootton, deeds
- X106: Hipwells of Pavenham and Stoke Mills, Sharnbrook
- X453: Deeds - Gells Trust owned the property and the rent was to assist the Sunday School of St Peter's Church, Sharnbrook.
- X547: Bedfordshire Deeds from Messrs. Barr Ellison, solicitors, 39 Parkside, Cambridge
- X641: Sharnbrook Deeds and Papers (Newell family)
- X939/11: Sharnbrook Women's Institute
- X1019: Sharnbrook Scout Group
- Z483: Items relating to Sharnbrook.
- Z755: Papers of the Fountain Family of Sharnbrook
- Z50/100: Photographs of Sharnbrook
- Z1130/100: Postcards with pictures of Sharnbrook
- Z1306/100: Postcards with pictures of Sharnbrook
Further details of these items can be found through our online catalogue http://bedsarchivescat.bedford.gov.uk. Our detailed collection guides http://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/Guide-to-Collections/Guide-to-Collections.aspx give more information about the types of records we hold.
Other useful sources for information about Sharnbrook include:
Copies of the parish registers listing baptisms, marriages and burials up to 1812 can be purchased from Bedfordshire Archives http://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/Guide-to-Collections/FamilyHistory/BedfordshireParishRegisterSeries.aspx.
We offer an enquiry and research service http://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/Enquiryandresearchservice.aspx, however this is limited to local history, properties and general subjects; we are no longer able to carry out genealogy research.