High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Wycombe, Chipping Wycombe, or High Wycombe, a market town, a parish, and township, Bucks, on river Wye, 15 miles NW. of Windsor and 34 NW. of London by rail.

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

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * Baptist
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Particular Baptist
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker
 * Strict Baptist
 * Wesleyan Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist Reform

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

Websites
High Wycombe on GENUKI