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Guide to Aldworth, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Aldworth, Berkshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Compton |
| County | Berkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Wantage |
| Registration District | Wantage |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1556 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1607 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Newbury |
| Diocese | Pre-1836 - Salisbury; Post-1835 - Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire |
| Location of Archive | |
| Berkshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
ALDWORTH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wantage, hundred of Compton, county of Berks, 4½ miles E by S from East Ilsley.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.org.uk.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Aldworth parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BERK = Berkshire Parish Records (findmypast) - (£).[2] | |||||
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] |
| Aldworth Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BERK | Undefined | Undefined | ||||
| IGI | 1556-1875 | 1556-1885 | ||||
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use FamilySearch's England Jurisdictions (1851) parish boundary maps. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non-Conformists Churches[edit | edit source]
- Primitive Methodist
Census records[edit | edit source]
Some census records are transcribed and/or are accessible at FamilySearch. To view those currently available, go to their Historical Collections page and scroll down to the "England" census database entries.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Berkshire Probate Records" to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Aldworth in GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England(1848), pp. 31-34. Date accessed: 16 July 2012.
- ↑ 'New Berkshire parish records published on findmypast.co.uk,', findmypast, accessed 28 January 2014.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Berkshire, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 31 January 2014.
