Newbury, Berkshire Genealogy
Guide to Newbury, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Newbury, Berkshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Faircross; Newbury Borough |
| County | Berkshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Newbury |
| Registration District | Newbury |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1538 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1607 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Newbury |
| 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]
NEWBURY (St. Nicholas), a market-town and parish, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Faircross, county of Berks, 17 miles (W. by S.) from Reading, and 56 (W. by S.) from London, on the road to Bath. The Baptists, Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians, have places of worship. [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]
Newbury, Berkshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BERK = Berkshire Parish Records (findmypast) - (£).[2] |
| Newbury, Berkshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BERK | Undefined | Undefined | ||||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- Baptist
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Independent/Congregational
- Plymouth Brethren
- Presbyterian
- Primitive Methodist
- Society of Friends/Quaker
- Wesleyan Methodist
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]
Newbury in GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 379-389. Date accessed: 10 April 2013.
- ↑ 'New Berkshire parish records published on findmypast.co.uk,', findmypast, accessed 28 January 2014.
