Crowthorne, Berkshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  Berkshire Parishes  Crowthorne

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

Parish History
Crowthorne is a chapelry of Sandhurst Ecclesiastical Parish in Berkshire (which also see).It was built in 1873.

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') register likely exist for this chapel at the Berkshire Record Office. .

Genealogy
Lake, Margaret. The Lake Family Tree continued in Baby-Sitter Marries Baby. History and family tree of James Charnley and Elizabeth Smith dated 1840-1906, with the following surnames: Waterhouse, Lake, Knox, Dodd, with family in Liverpool, Trimulghury, Madras, Nowshera, India, Crowthorne and Wellington Berkshire. Article in Journal of the Felixstowe Family History Soc. vol. 8. pages 7-10 FHL Ref. 942.64/F5 D25r

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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