Culham, Oxfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Culham, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Culham, Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Dorchester |
| County | Berkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Abingdon |
| Registration District | Abingdon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1648 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1721 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Cuddesdon |
| Diocese | Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford |
| Location of Archive | |
| Berkshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
CULHAM, a parish in the district of Abingdon, and counties of Oxford and Berks; on the river Thames, adjacent to the Oxford railway, 1½ mile S by E of Abingdon.[1]
CULHAM (St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Dorchester, county of Oxford,1 mile (S. S. E.) from Abingdon. [2]
Culham is an Ancient Parish partly in the county of Berkshire but mostly in the county of Oxfordshire. Other places in this parish include Otney Mead. Genuki.co.uk provides a more detailed description of this parish.
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]
Culham, Oxfordshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[3] | |||||
| OFHS = Oxfordshire Family History Society - (£). Results delivered by email.[4] |
| Culham, Oxfordshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1721-1875 | |||||
| OFHS | 1648-1987 | 1666-1986 | 1662-1986 | |||
Culham Parish Records begin in 1648. FHL has the following concerning parish records.
Culham Bishop Transcripts begin in 1721. These records were microfilmed and are on FHL Film # 0095237 Items 3-4.
For full listing from the Family History Library check it out here.
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
None
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 746-751. Date accessed: 20 September 2012.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Oxford, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 17 January 2014.
- ↑ 'OFHS Parish Records Date Finder,', Oxfordshire Family History Society, accessed 24 January 2014.
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