Cookham Dean, Berkshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  Berkshire Parishes  Cookham Dean

Guide to Cookham Dean, Berkshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Cookham Dean is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1846 from Cookham Ancient Parish; Exact boundary unknown.

Here's a mid-19th century historical and jurisdictional perspective by John M. Wilson:

COOKHAM-DEAN, a chapelry, with a village, in Cookham parish (which also see), Berks; about a mile WNW of Cookham. The church was built in 1845. There are Independent and Primitve Methodist chapels here.

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:

Chapelry ('parish') registers likely exist for this chapel commencing from 1845, at the Berkshire Record Office.

Non-Conformist Churches
None

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Cookham Dean (part of Cookham) in GENUKI