Woodstock, Oxfordshire Genealogy

England   Oxfordshire   Oxfordshire Parishes

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

Parish History
WOODSTOCK, a borough and market-town, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally within the liberty of the city of Oxford, county of Oxford, 8 miles (N. N. W.)from Oxford, and 62 (W. N.W.) from London.

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

Census records


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