Cranbourne, Berkshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  Berkshire Parishes  Cranbourne

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

Parish History
Cranbourne is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1851 from Winkfield Ancient Parish, Sunninghill Ancient Parish and Old Windsor Ancient Parish; Exact boundary unknown.

CRANBOURNE-ST. PETER, a chapelry in Winkfield, Old Windsor, and Sunninghill parishes (each of which also see), Berks; adjacent to Windsor Park, 2½ miles N by W of Sunning Hill, and 4½ SW by S of Windsor. It was constituted in 1851.

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
Chapelry ('parish') registers likely exist for this chapel commencing from 1845, at the Berkshire Record Office.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

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
Cranbourne in GENUKI