North Hinksey, Berkshire Genealogy

Guide to North Hinksey, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
HINKSEY, NORTH (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Hormer, county of Berks, 1½ miles west of the city of Oxford. This parish, sometimes called Ferry Hinksey, is situated on the western bank of the Isis. Both North and South Hinksey were formerly chapelries in the parish of Cumner. Bishop's transcripts of baptisms commence from as early as the year 1607.

HINKSEY (NORTH), or Ferry-Hinksey, a village and a parish in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands on the river Isis, at the boundary with Oxfordshire, ½ a mile SW of Oxford r. station; is reached, from Oxford, by a ferry.

North Hinksey is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of North Hinksey, Oxfordshire, partly in Berkshire and partly in Oxfordshire; created in 1726 from chapelry in Cumnor Ancient Parish. See also Oxford St Aldgate and Oxford Christchurch.

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Church of England
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 * Joiner Marriage Index - Berkshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Berkshire ($)
 * Oxfordshire Family History Society - Berkshire
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Probate Records
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.

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Websites
North Hinksey in GENUKI North Hinksey - Berkshire Family History Society UK Genealogy Archives Berkshire