Knowl Hill, Berkshire Genealogy
Guide to Knowl Hill, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Knowl Hill, Berkshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Beynhurst; Wargrave |
County | Berkshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Cookham |
Registration District | Cookham; Wokingham |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1842 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1842 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Reading |
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]
KNOWL-HILL, a village in Hurley parish, and a chapelry partly also in Wargrave parish, Berks. The village stands 3 miles NE of Twyford r. station, and 4½ WSW of Maidenhead. [1]
Knowl Hill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1842 from Hurley Ancient Parish and Wargrave Ancient 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]
Knowl Hill, Berkshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
BERK = Berkshire Parish Records (findmypast) - (£).[2] |
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BERK | Undefined |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Baptist
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. 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]
Knowl Hill part in Hurley and part in Wargrave 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.
Berkshire Family History Society