Chandlings Farm, Berkshire, England Genealogy

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

Chandlings Farm
Type	Extra-parochial
Civil Jurisdictions
County	Berkshire
Hundred	Hormer
Poor Law Union	Abingdon
Registration District	Abingdon
Records Begin
Parish registers	For records see surrounding parishes
Bishop's Transcripts	For records see surrounding parishes
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery	Not Applicable
Diocese	Not Applicable
Probate Court	Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
Archive
Berkshire Record Office

Parish History[edit | edit source]

CHANDLINGS (also known as Chandlings Farm), an extra-parochial district, in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Hormer, county of Berks, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Abingdon. ^[1] Search surrounding parishes for records and information. See Genuki.org for additional information on Chandlings and extra-parochial places in Berkshire. This parish was abolished 1 April 1900 and incorporated into the parish of Radley.

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

This area is part of the Abingdon Registration District.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Chandlings Farm is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Sunningwell.

Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

Nonconformist Records[edit | edit source]

"Nonconformist" is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church. In England, the state church is the Church of England.

England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages at Findmypast — index & images ($); coverage may vary

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

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. Scorll down in the article to the section 'Court Jurisdictions by Parish'.