Drayton, Berkshire Genealogy
Guide to Drayton, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Drayton, Berkshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Ock |
| County | Berkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Abingdon |
| Registration District | Abingdon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1754; For more records see Abingdon St Helen with St Nicholas | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1607 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Abingdon |
| 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]
DRAYTON, a village and a parish in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands near the Berks and Wilts canal, 1¼ mile W of the river Thames, 13/4 N of Steventon r. station, and 2 SW of Abingdon. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans.[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]
Drayton, Berkshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BERK = Berkshire Parish Records (findmypast) - (£).[2] | |||||
| BIVRI = British Isles Vital Records Index (Ancestry) - (£) | |||||
| OFHS = Oxfordshire Family History Society - (£). Results delivered by email.[3] |
| Drayton, Berkshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BERK | Undefined | |||||
| BIVRI | 1607-1836 | 1607-1836 | ||||
| OFHS | 1607-1882 | 1607-1941 | 1607-1919 | |||
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
- Baptist
- Primitive Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist
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 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]
Drayton in GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
- ↑ 'New Berkshire parish records published on findmypast.co.uk,', findmypast, accessed 28 January 2014.
- ↑ 'OFHS Parish Records Date Finder,', Oxfordshire Family History Society, accessed 21 January 2014.
