Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STRATFIELD-MORTIMER (St. Mary), a parish,in the union of Bradfield, partly in the hundred of Holdshott, Basingstoke and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, but chiefly in the hundred of Theale,county of Berks, 8 miles (S. W. by S.) from Reading, with the tythings of Wokefield and Mortimer West-End, tything of Stratfield-Mortimer. Stratfield Mortimer was chiefly in the hundred of Theale (Berkshire) but partly in that of Lower Holdshott (Hampshire), and thus, in two counties.

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Non-Conformist Churches
Independent/Congregational

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.

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

Websites
Stratfield Mortimer in GENUKI