North Hinksey, Berkshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  Berkshire Parishes  North Hinksey

Parish History
HINKSEY, NORTH (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Hormer, county of Berks, 1½ miles west of the city of Oxford. This parish, sometimes called Ferry Hinksey, is situated on the western bank of the Isis. Both North and South Hinksey were formerly chapelries in the parish of Cumner (all of which, see). Bishop's transcripts of baptisms commence from as early as the year 1607.

HINKSEY (NORTH), or Ferry-Hinksey, a village and a parish in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands on the river Isis, at the boundary with Oxfordshire, ½ a mile SW of Oxford r. station; is reached, from Oxford, by a ferry.

North Hinksey is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of North Hinksey, Oxfordshire, partly in Berkshire and partly in Oxfordshire; created in 1726 from chapelry in Cumnor Ancient Parish. See also Oxford St Aldgate and Oxford Christchurch.

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:

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. FamilySearch has microfilmed both the parish registers (from 1703) and the Bishop's transcripts (from 1607, with some missing years) for North Hinksey. Most of the data content has been indexed and published online at FamilySearch for the years 1607-1885.

The parish records and bishop transcripts available from the Family History Library and at Family History Centers on microfilm are listed here in the catalog.

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.

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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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