Banbury, Oxfordshire Genealogy

England   Oxfordshire

Parish History
Banbury is an Ancient Parish partly in Northamptonshire and partly in Oxfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Wykham, Calthorpe, Wickham, Neithrop, and Hardwick. Genuki.co.ukprovides a lengthy description of this parish.

Peter Cook has created a names database of those in Banbury which is hosted on Genuki.co.uk.

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.

Banbury is located in the Banbury Registration District.

Church records
There are many records available through the Family History Library Catalog. Click hereto choose which one may be of interest.

Oxforshire Archdeacon's Marriage Bonds by Donnette Stringham Smith and hosted at Genuki.org.uk.

Census records
Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 474571.

To view these census images online, they are available through a number of websites for a fee or free. ■FindMyPast (fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■Ancestry.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com. ■The Genealogist.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■FreeCen is a free based UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

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
A Selection of Useful Sites for Banbury