Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
STRATFORD (Stony), a small town and a parish  in the district of Potterspury and county of Buckingham.

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
Stony Stratford 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.

The church of Saint Giles was built in the late 15th century, and was entirely rebuilt in 1776 except for the original chapel. The parish registers begin in 1738. St. Giles church still stands. The church of Saint Mary Magdalene is dated to have been built about 1450. It was destroyed by fire in 1742 with only the tower and graveyard still remaining. For more information, see British History Online.

"During the English Civil War in the 1640's, St.Marys Church on the Eastside (Wolverton) was the non-conformist church, and was Cromwellian (Roundhead). St. Giles Church on the Westside (Calverton) was the established church, and was Parliamentarian (Cavalier). Due to having two churches, a great divide occurred between the two churches, and the two parishes, and rivalry and suspicion was evident. In 1689 religious persecutions had ceased with the introduction of the Toleration Act." - Milton Keynes Heritage Association

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

FamilySearch also has records for an independant church 1822-1837 on microfilms 566021 item 2 and 583981 item 1.

There are also two computer printouts for the independant church, both extracted from microfilm 566021, one available on microfilm 1037052 item 13, and the other on microfiche 6909261 both covering years 1822-1837.

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Stony Stratford on GENUKI