Bedfordshire is the historic heart of the Tearle Family. Including Stanbridge, Dunstable and Luton it includes sites of importance including burial sites and sites of long term Tearle inhabitance.

Here are all the Bedfordshire Tearles that we have been able to find, click on the names to read more about them:

A Victorian Mésalliance, or, Goings On at the Manor, Toddington

By Barbara Tearle 'Reproduced from Bedfordshire Family History Society Journal, vol. 17, no. 2 June 2009, pp.15-19, by kind permission of ...

Aubrey Bruce Cooper Cecil, born 1878, on board the vessel ‘Scottish Prince’

Born: 10th September 1878 onboard the vessel ‘Scottish Prince’ Died: 25th August 1918 in Brisbane, Australia Aubrey Bruce Cooper Cecil ...

Aubrey Cooper Cecil, 1847, Toddington, UK

Aubrey Cooper Cecil  - born 10th March 1847 at Toddington Manor, Bedfordshire, England. The story of Aubrey’s ancestry and childhood ...

Dunstable Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1710-1940

Compiled by Pat Field Annotated by Ewart Tearle and Pat Field Mar 2010 DUNSTABLE BAPTISMS ST PETER Dunstable Parish CD ...

Eaton Bray Tearle memorials

The vicar of Stanbridge, Helen Gardiner, wrote to me to say she had seen mention of a Tearle in the ...

Egerton Burleigh Cooper Cecil, 1881, Chiswick, UK

Contributed by Wendy Skelley, Auckland, New Zealand. Born: 16 June 1881 in Chiswick, Middlesex, England Died: 28 February 1967, Mt ...

John Tearle 1831, Toddington, UK

John 1831 was home for the 1851 census, at which time he was recorded as being an Ag Lab, the ...

Joseph Tearle, 1843, Toddington, UK

Joseph 1843 was born in Toddington to Sarah Tearle, the daughter of William 1796 of Stanbridge and Catherine nee Fossey ...

Levi Tearle, 1855, Thorn, UK

If you thought Chalgrave was small, then Thorn, where Levi was born, is little more than a scattering of farm ...

Lords of the Manor, The story of the Cooper Family of Toddington Hall

A short history of Toddington Manor The manor of Toddington dates back to the 11th century at least when its ...

Moses Tearle, 1827, Toddington, UK

Barbara Tearle of Oxford has told us about Moses, who married the daughter of the Lord of the Manor of ...

Sarah Tearle, 1823, Toddington, UK

In the 1841 census of Toddington, William 1796 and Catherine nee Fossey, along with Sarah, Moses and John are all ...
Susanna Tearle, 1827 Dagnall headstone in Dunstable Cemetery.

Susanna Tearle, 1827, Dagnall, UK

This is the memorial to Susanna, born 28 May 1827, in Dagnall, Bucks, not far from Edlesborough. Her parents were ...

Tearle, Jeffrey, 1891, Eaton Bray, UK (1/Beds Regt)

On the Roll of Honour in the Dunstable Priory Church, there are two names: Tearle G and Tearle J. The ...

Tearle, John, 1895, Toddington, UK (7/Beds Regt)

Tearle, J Lance Corporal 7th Bedfordshire Regiment of “South View”, Princess Street, Toddington, Bedfordshire. "National Roll of the Great War" ...

Tearle, William Alfred John, 1890, Firefighter of Lostwithiel

It was Richard Tearle, leader of the Tearle research group, who first came across the story of William Tearle, the ...

Tearle, William Major, 1899, Toddington, UK (2/Beds Regt)

Tearle, W M Private, 2nd Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire "National Roll of the Great War" says: Barbara has written to me ...

Tearle, William Marlow, 1892, Toddington, UK (MGC)

Tearle, W Private, Machine Gun Corps "National Roll of the Great War" says: J Tearle and W Tearle of Toddington ...

The Scottish Prince

There is a sad post-script to the story of The Scottish Prince.  This was the ship that little Aubrey Bruce ...

Thomas Tearle 1777 & Thomas 1780

Who was the miller of Luton in the 1841 census? Ewart F Tearle 2019 These two families have fascinated us ...

Toddington

There are three separate but related Tearle families in Toddington: two families descended from John 1741 of Stanbridge and Martha ...

If you have more information on other Bedfordshire Tearles, then please contact us through this website or email us at: ewart@tearle.org.uk

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