Earley, Berkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Earley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1843 from Sonning Ancient Parish.

Here is an important 19th century historical and jurisdictional perspective by John M. Wilson, from the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:

SONNING, a village and a hundred in Berks, and a parish (which see) in Berks and Oxford. The village stands on the Thames, 2 miles W by N of Twyford, and 3 ENE of Reading. The parish comprises the liberties of Sonning-Town, Earley, and Woodley and Sandford St John's (which also see; built in 1873), in Wokingham district, Berks, and the liberty of Eye and Dunsden in Henley district, Oxford. A chapel of ease was erected in Eye andDunsden (All Saints, by 1842). In addition to this extensive parish, the perpetual curacies (chapels) of Earley St Bartholomew and St Luke are also separate chapelries, were built within the parish boundary, created in 1879 and 1878, respectively, which also see. The Reading cemetery also is in the 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:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Non-Conformist Churches
Independent/Congregational
 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Berkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court

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
Earley a liberty in the parish of Sonning in GENUKI