Oxford St Michael, Oxfordshire Genealogy
Guide to Oxford St Michael, Oxfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Oxford St Michael, Oxfordshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Oxford |
| County | Oxfordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Oxford |
| Registration District | Oxford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1558 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1722 | |
| 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 | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
Oxford St Michael is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire. Other places in the parish include: Jesus College and Exeter College. Wesleyan Methodist is the only identified non-Church of England denomination in Oxford St Michael. The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Oxford, but the exact parish has not been identified: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist. [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 Michael, Oxfordshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£)[2] | |||||
| OFHS = Oxfordshire Family History Society - (£). Results delivered by email.[3] |
| Oxford St Michael, Oxfordshire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1651-1753 | |||||
| OFHS | 1558-1923 | 1615-1922 | 1616-1941 | |||
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 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]
Reference
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- ↑ http://maps.familysearch.org/
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county', Origins.net (Wayback Machine), accessed 21 January 2014.
- ↑ 'OFHS Parish Records Date Finder,', Oxfordshire Family History Society, accessed 21 January 2014.
