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HOLCUTT, a parish in the hundred of MANSHEAD, county of BEDFORD, 4½ miles (N.) from Woburn, containing 62 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with which the vicarage of Salford was united in 1750, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7.15. The Rev. E.0. Smith was patron in 1819. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
The 1851 Census Index for Hulcote can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 4, Book 4 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of St. Nicholas is a very small but ancient edifice of late Perpendicular date, consisting of chancel and nave and a low embattled western tower, with pinnacles at the angles and containing 4 bells: there are monuments of the Chernocke family from the time of Henry VIII, to the present .day, and these include one, beautifully carved, Faith effigies and shields of arms, to Robert Chernocke, 1547, and Richard his son, 1615; there are other monuments to Lieut.-Col. C. Hervey Smith, of Aspley House, 1857, and Frances, his wife, and others to the Rev. Edward Hervey, rector, 1796; in the nave is a slab inscribed to William Nichols esq. 1619 : the east window is stained : the church is not now in use, except as a mortuary chapel. The register dates from the year 1658.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for St. Nicholas are available on microfiche for the period 1658-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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