Culham, Oxfordshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  Berkshire Parishes  Culham

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

Parish History
CULHAM, a parish in the district of Abingdon, and counties of Oxford and Berks; on the river Thames, adjacent to the Oxford railway, 1½ mile S by E of Abingdon.

CULHAM (St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Dorchester, county of Oxford,1 mile (S. S. E.) from Abingdon.

Culham is an Ancient Parish partly in the county of Berkshire but mostly in the county of Oxfordshire. Other places in this parish include Otney Mead. Genuki.co.uk provides a more detailed description of this parish.

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:

Culham Parish Records begin in 1648. FHL has the following concerning parish records.

Culham Bishop Transcripts begin in 1721. These records were microfilmed and are on FHL Film # 0095237 Items 3-4.

For full listing from the Family History Library check it out here.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain