South Hinksey, Berkshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  South Hinksey

Parish History
South Hinksey is an Ecclesiastical Parish mostly in Berkshire and partly in Oxfordshire; Created in 1723 from chapelry in Cumnor Ancient Parish. A more detailed description is available at Genuki.org.uk.

Other places in the parish include: New Hinksey.

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
Genuki.org.ukprovides a detailed background of these records. The Family History Library has some of these registers on microfilm. To see what is available in the FHLC catalog click here.

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 Berkshire 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