Banbury, Oxfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
BANBURY (St. Mary),a borough, market-town,and parish, and the head of a union, chiefly in the hundred of Banbury, county of Oxford, but partly in that of King's-Sutton, S. division of the county of Northampton, 22 miles(N.) from Oxford, and 69(N. W.) from London... A district [church] called South Banbury was formed under the act 6th and 7th Victoria,...of a portion of the parish, in 1846. There are places of worship for Calvinists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, and others; and a handsome and commodious Roman Catholic chapel.

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

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

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
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 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Online Records These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Oxfordshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Oxfordshire ($)
 * Oxfordshire Family History Society
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

Census records
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.

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

Websites
A Selection of Useful Sites for Banbury