Godington, Oxfordshire, England Genealogy
Guide to Godington, Oxfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Godington, Oxfordshire, England | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Ploughley |
| County | Oxfordshire |
| Poor Law Union | Bicester |
| Registration District | Bicester |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1678 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1700 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Bicester |
| Diocese | Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford |
| Location of Archive | |
| Oxfordshire Record Office | |
Parish History
GODDINGTON (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Bicester, hundred of Ploughley, county of Oxford, 5½ miles (N. E.) from Bicester. [1]
Resources
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
Godington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Godington Online Parish Records | ||||||
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
| ANC 1 | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | |||
| ANC 2 | 1813-1915 | 1754-1930 | 1813-1965 | |||
| FMP | 1634-1849 | |||||
| BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
| IGI | ||||||
| FS Catalog BTs | ||||||
| OFHS | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Oxfordshire History Centre.
Census records
a. {British Census|474574 }}
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.
Websites
Reference
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 301-312. Date accessed: 04 October 2012.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk