Slapton, Buckinghamshire Genealogy
Guide to Slapton, Buckinghamshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Slapton, Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Cottesloe |
| County | Buckinghamshire |
| Poor Law Union | Leighton Buzzard |
| Registration District | Leighton Buzzard |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1653 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1575 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Mursley |
| 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]
SLAPTON (Holy Cross), a parish, in the union of Leighton-Buzzard, hundred of Cottesloe, county of Buckingham, 3½ miles (S. S. E.) from LeightonBuzzard. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[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]
Slapton, 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] |
| Slapton, Buckinghamshire Genealogy Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| BOYD | 1651-1812 | |||||
| FREG | 1653-1812 | |||||
| JOIN | 1654-1812 | |||||
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Wesleyan Methodist
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]
Slapton on GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., Topographical Dictionary of England 1848 pp. 118-120 Date accessed and adapted 9 July 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 27 January 2014.
