Oxford St Aldate, Oxfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Oxford St Aldate, Oxfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Oxford St Aldate, Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | England Jurisdictions |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Hormer; Oxford |
| County | Oxfordshire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Oxford |
| Registration District | Oxford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1678 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1721 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Oxford |
| Diocese | Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford |
| Location of Archive | |
| Oxfordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
St Aldgate, Oxford (City) stood within the limits of both the county of (mostly) Oxfordshire and Berkshire. The ecclesiastical chapel of St. Aldate, Oxford itself, also stood partly in Oxfordshire and partly in Berkshire. It was a parochial chapel in that it possessed ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the chapelry of Christ Church, Oxford (which see), and also was part of the parish of North Hinksey (which also see), in Berkshire. The parish of St Aldate contained within its boundary, Pembroke College as well.
Oxford, was a parliamentary and municipal borough, city, a large market town, and the county town of Oxfordshire, between the rivers Cherwell and Thames, or Isis, and 27 miles northwest of Reading.[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]
Oxford St Aldate, Oxfordshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| AC = Ancestry.com - (£). | |||||
| OFHS = Oxfordshire Family History Society - (£). Results delivered by email.[2] |
| OXFORD ST ALDGATE Parish (1678) Online Church Records (partly in Berkshire) | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1678-1915 | 1678-1930 | 1678-1935 | |||
| OFHS | 1678-1952 | 1678-1948 | 1678-1935 | |||
Parish registers of Oxford St Aldgate commence in the year 1678 and are searchable at:
Oxford County Record Office
St Luke's Church
Cowley
Oxford OX4 2EX
United Kingdom
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
None
Family History Library:[edit | edit source]
No records[edit | edit source]
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 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]
Oxford St Aldate in GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870). Adapted. Accessed: 17 Apr 2013.
- ↑ 'OFHS Parish Records Date Finder,', Oxfordshire Family History Society, accessed 21 January 2014.
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