Whitchurch, Oxfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WHITCHURCH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bradfield, chiefly in the hundred of Langtree,county of Oxford, 6½ miles (N. W.) from Reading. It comprises 2180 acres, of which 301 acres are in the county of Berks, and the remainder in the county of Oxford.

Whitchurch is an Ancient Parish partly in Berkshire and mostly in Oxfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Whitchurch Tollhouse. A more detailed description is available from Genuki.org.uk.

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. This parish is part of the Bradfield Registration District.

Church Records
Whitchurch 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.

Records are also available at the Oxfordshire History Centre.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

Census Records
Census records from 1841-1891 are available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library. The first film number is 464173. To view these census images online, they are available through a number of websites for a fee or free.

■findmypast (fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■Ancestry.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. The library versions are known as AncestryInstitution.com. ■The Genealogist.co.uk(fee-based) but free at Family History Centers and the Family History Library and various other libraries. ■FreeCen is a free based UK census searches. It is not complete and individuals are always asked to consider helping out with transcriptions.

Probate Records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Oxfordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scoll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Poor Law Records
Workhouse, Oxfordshire

Family History Library Catalog Entries

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

England Jurisdiction

Vision of Britain

Websites
Whitchurch in GENUKI