Thatcham, Berkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
THATCHAM (St. Luke), a parish, in the union of Newbury, partly in the hundred of Faircross, but chiefly in that of Reading, county of Berks, 3 miles (E.) from Newbury; containing, with the chapelries of Greenham and Midgham. The Independents have a place of worship.

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
Thatcham parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Cold Ash parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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

Transcribed and contributed by Smallbone, K. Hampshire Entries in the Thatcham Marriage Registers 1561-1840. Thatcham lies on the border of Hampshire and Berkshire. Marriage listings start in April 1562-1721, giving date, names and original parish. Article in the Hampshire Family Historian, vol.5,no.2, August 1978, pages 47-48 Family History Library Ref. 942.27 B2h no2-4

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Baptist
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Independent/Congregational
 * Primitive Methodist
 * Wesleyan Methodist

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
Thatcham in GENUKI