Beckley, Buckinghamshire Genealogy

Guide to Beckley, Buckinghamshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
BECKLEY, a parish partly in the hundred of Ashendon, county of Buckingham, and partly in the hundred of Bullington, County of Oxford, 4 3/4 miles (N.E.) from Oxford containing the chapelry of Studley with Horton.

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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
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 Websites 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 - Buckinghamshire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Buckinghamshire ($)
 * 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

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 0474572. (Note this listing is under Oxford as that is the greater area for this parish.

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 Buckinghamshire 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