Langford, Oxfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
LANGFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Farringdon, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford,3½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Lechlade. There is a chapel of ease at Little Farringdon.

Other places in the parish include: Little Faringdon, Little Farringdon, Radcutt, Radcot, Radcott, and Grafton.

Genuki.org.uk provides a more detailed explanation 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
Some church records are available at the Family History Library or ordered online and sent to a close by a Family History Center to your location.

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 241200. 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 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