Court of the Peculiar Parish of Banbury

Step By Step
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will or administration (admon), writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry. 2. Proceed to the "Records" (below) to determine what probate records exist for this court. 3. Contact or visit the Oxfordshire Record Office, or, hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers. 4. Visit The FamilySearch Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite FamilySearch centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records; then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search the original wills and admons available online at a local FamilySearch center or affiliate library near you.

Printed and Published Indexes
Index to wills proved in the Peculiar Court of Banbury, 1542-1858, Oxfordshire Record Society, 1959 edited by J.S.W. Gibson 

Indexes in The FamilySearch Library


 * , Oxfordshire Record Society, 1959 edited by J.S.W. Gibson; FS Library book call number 942.53 B4o vol. 40
 * . is a of names extracted from 312 wills proved in the years 1796-1857 inclusive (and 26 wills proved in the Manorial Court of Sibford in the years 1786-1829). Contents: v. 1. Persons named in wills proved 1736-1785 -- v. 2. Persons named in wills proved 1786-1857.

The FamilySearch Library has the following on film. Films can be viewed in the Library or in a FamilySearch center.



Archive Locations
The original records are housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Archive Records
Add information about the manuscript, printed and digital records in this location.


 * Filed Wills &amp; Administrations (Admons) 1547-1856
 * Registered Wills &amp; Administrations 1585-1596; 1698-1733; 1736-1850; for 1851-1858, see under Aylesbury (in Buckinghamshire)
 * Administration Act Books 1674-1856
 * Inventories 1550-1590 (in Household and Farm Inventories, published by the Oxfordshire Record Society vol. 44: 1965)
 * Inventories 1591-1650 (published by the Banbury Historical Society)

FamilySearch Library Records
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Jurisdiction
Banbury is a peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The court's jurisdiction covers Banbury and it's hamlets.

Also see the Peculiar Court of Aylesbury (see Buckinghamshire Probate Records) which as well holds some probate records for Banbury.