Aldworth, Berkshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  Berkshire Parishes  Aldermaston

Parish History
ALDWORTH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Wantage, hundred of Compton, county of Berks, 4½ miles (E. by S.) from East Ilsley.

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 &lt;a href="http://freebmd.org.uk/"&gt;FreeBMD&lt;/a&gt;.

Church records
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use &lt;a href="http://maps.familysearch.org/"&gt;England Jurisdictions 1851&lt;/a&gt;. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to &lt;a href="Berkshire Probate Records"&gt;Berkshire Probate Records&lt;/a&gt; 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.


 * &lt;a href="http://maps.familysearch.org/"&gt;England Jurisdictions 1851&lt;/a&gt;
 * &lt;a href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp"&gt;Vision of Britain&lt;/a&gt;