Charlsbury, Oxfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Charlsbury, Oxfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Charlsbury, Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Banbury; Chadlington |
| County | Oxfordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Bicester; Chipping Norton |
| Registration District | Chipping Norton |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1559; Separate registers exist for Finstock beginning 1842 and for Chadlington beginning 1567 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1669; Separate records exist for Finstock beginning 1847 and for Chadlington beginning 1669 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Chipping Norton |
| Diocese | Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford |
| Location of Archive | |
| Oxfordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CHARLBURY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Chipping-Norton, partly in the hundred of Chadlington, and partly in that of Banbury, county of Oxford, 6¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Woodstock. Contains the ancient chapelries of East Chadlington and Shorthampton, the tything of West Chadlington, and the hamlets of Fawler,Finstock, and Walcott. This parish, in old records was called Ceorlebury. [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.
Church records[edit | edit source]
Charlsbury, Oxfordshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2] | |||||
| OFHS = Oxfordshire Family History Society - (£). Results delivered by email.[3] |
| Charlsbury, Oxfordshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1669-1851 | |||||
| OFHS | 1559-1996 | 1559-2001 | 1559-2000 | |||
Finstock (and Fawler) parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Finstock (and Fawler) Parish Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| OFHS | 1842-1920 | 1850-1920 | 1842-1907 | |||
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Oxfordshire 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]
Reference
[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 549-554. Date accessed: 18 September 2012.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Oxford, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 16 January 2014.
- ↑ 'OFHS Parish Records Date Finder,', Oxfordshire Family History Society, accessed 24 January 2014.
