Nuneham Courtenay

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

Parish History
NUNEHAM-COURTNEY (All Saints), a parish,in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Bullingdon,county of Oxford, 5 miles (S. S. E.) from Oxford.

History of this location by Mavis Batey: http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1968/batey.pdf

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

 * Parish Records begin in 1715
 * Bishop transcrips begin in 1721

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

Census records
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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 Cambridgeshire 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