Culham, Oxfordshire Genealogy

England   Oxfordshire

Parish History
Culham is an Ancient Parish partly in the county of Berkshire but mostly in the county of Oxfordshire. Other places in this parish include Otney Mead. Genuki.co.uk provides a more detailed description of 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
Culham Parish Records begin in 1648. FHL has the following concerning parish records.

Culham Bishop Transcripts begin in 1721. These records were microfilmed and are on FHL Film # 0095237 Items 3-4.

For full listing from the Family History Library check it out here.

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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

Web sites
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