Petsoe Manor, Buckinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Petsoe Manor, a hamlet, in the parish of Okeney union of Newport-Pagnell, hundred of Newport, county of Buckingham, 2 1/2 miles SE by S from Olney. Petsoe Manor is adjacent to the parishes of Clifton Reynes, Hardmead, Chicheley, and Emberton.

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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
Petsoe Manor is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Hardmead.
 * Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
 * The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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