Wallingford St Leonard, Berkshire Genealogy
Guide to Wallingford St Leonard, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Wallingford St Leonard, Berkshire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Wallingford Borough |
| County | Berkshire |
| Poor Law Union | Wallingford |
| Registration District | Wallingford |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1711 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1605 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Wallingford |
| 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]
WALLINGFORD, a borough and market town, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the hundred of Moreton, county of Berks, 15 miles (N. N. W.) from Reading, and 46 (W. by N.) from London. Wallingford comprises the parishes of All Hallows, St. Leonard, St. Mary-le-More, and St. Peter. [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]
Wallingford St Leonard parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Wallingford St Leonard Online Parish Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FMP | 1813-1892 | 1605-1704 | 1605-1966 | |||
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| ANC | 1530-1980 | 1538-1988 | ||||
| FS Catalog PRs | 1837-1975 | 1837-1975 | 1837-1975 | |||
| FS Catalog BTs | 1605-1836 | 1605-1836 | 1605-1836 | |||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- Particular Baptist
- Primitive Methodist
- Society of Friends/Quaker is a non-Church of England denomination located somewhere in Wallingford, but the exact parish has not been identified.
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 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]
Wallingford St Loenard in GENUKI
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 440-444. Date accessed: 10 April 2013.
