Everton, Bedfordshire

Historical Description

Everton, a parish in Beds, on the verge of the county, 1½ mile NW of Potton station on the L. & N.W.R, and 5½ miles NNE from Biggleswade. It has a post office under Sandy; money order and telegraph office, Potton. Acreage, 1361; population, 219. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Tetworth, in the diocese of Ely; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, Clare College, Cambridge.  The church is in Tetworth.  A portion of the parish known as Tetworth is in Huntingdonshire, and in the district of St Neots.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service (BLARS) hold the registers for Everton: Baptisms 1650-1958, Marriages 1650-1946, Burials 1650-1921, Banns 1769-1946. Transcripts in either book or microfiche form for registers prior to 1813 can be purchased from the BLARS (see website for details).

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Everton was in Biggleswade Registration District from 1837 to 1974

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Everton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Everton (St. Mary))
• Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire, 1914

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Bedfordshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Everton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Bedfordshire papers online:

• Bedfordshire Times and Independent
• Biggleswade Chronicle
• Luton Times and Advertiser
• Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle

Poor Law

Everton was in Biggleswade Poor Law Union. For further detailed history of the Biggleswade Union see Peter Higginbotham's excellent resource: Biggleswade Poor Law Union and Workhouse.

Visitations Heraldic

A full transcript of the Visitations of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, and 1634 is available online.