High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Genealogy
Guide to High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Desborough |
| County | Buckinghamshire |
| Poor Law Union | Wycombe |
| Registration District | Wycombe |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1610 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1590 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Wycombe |
| Diocese | Pre-1845 - Lincoln; Post-1844 - Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham |
| Location of Archive | |
| Buckinghamshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Wycombe, Chipping Wycombe, or High Wycombe, a market town, a parish, and township, Bucks, on river Wye, 15 miles NW. of Windsor and 34 NW. of London by rail.[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]
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| FREG = FreeREG - free[3] | |||||
| JOIN = The Joiner Marriage Index - (£)[4] |
| High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Genealogy Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1600-1812 | |||||
| FREG | 1600-1812 | |||||
| JOIN | 1600-1812 | |||||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- Baptist
- Independent/Congregational
- Particular Baptist
- Primitive Methodist
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Strict Baptist
- Wesleyan Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist Reform
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 Buckinghamshire 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]
High Wycombe on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870. Date accessed and adapted 18 June 2013.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Buckinghamshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 28 January 2014.
- ↑ 'Buckinghamshire Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 28 January 2014.
