Bampton Lew, Oxfordshire Genealogy

Guide to Bampton Lew, Oxfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
LEW, a hamlet, in the parish and union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 3¾ miles(S. W.) from Witney. A chapel of ease has been erected.

Bampton Lew is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Oxfordshire, created in 1845 from Bampton Ancient Parish. Lew is a hamlet in the parish of Witney but in the hundred of Bampton. Further descriptions are available on Genuki.org.uk. eNotes provides additional information on this parish.

Civil Registration
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
Bampton Lew parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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.

Records are also available at the Oxfordshire History Centre.

Probate records
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain