Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
MIDDLETON, STONEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Bicester, hundred of Ploughley, county of Oxford, 3 miles (W. by N.) from Bicester.

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
The village church, All Saints Church, has a web site at http://www.achurchnearyou.com/middleton-stoney-all-saints/ with a link to contact the local pastor. It is an old church dating back to the 12th century. According to British History Online, the parish registers begin in 1598. The parish records include constables' accounts for the years 1740–57

parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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. 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
British History Online: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63743