Oxhill, Warwickshire Genealogy

Parish History
Oxhill, is a village and a parish in Shipston-on-Stour district, Warwickshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Stour, it is 2½ miles W N W of the boundary with Oxfordshire, 3 miles E S E of the Fosse way, and 4¼ miles S S W of Kineton, it is 9½ miles S E of Stratford-on-Avon railway station. The post-town is, Kineton, under Warwick. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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.

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Warwickshire 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain