Beech Hill, Berkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Beech Hill is a chapelry of Stratfield Saye Ancient Parish (Hampshire; which also see) in Berkshire. It was erected by the year 1868.

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:

Chapelry ('parish') registers exist for this chapel at the Berkshire Record Office and through FamilySearch.org and its 4,600 FamilySearch Centers worldwide. These registers commence from 1868 to the 20th century.

Non-Conformist Churches
Baptist
 * 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 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
Beech Hill Chapelry in Stratfieldsaye in GENUKI