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, Oxfordshire, England Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| IGI = International Genealogical Index (FamilySearch) - free[2] | |||||
| OFHS = Oxfordshire Family History Society - (£). Results delivered by email.[3] |
| Godington, Oxfordshire, England Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| IGI | 1678-1812 | |||||
| OFHS | 1678-1995 | 1679-1953 | 1678-1997 | |||
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.
- ↑ Hugh Wallis, 'IGI Batch Numbers for Oxford, England,' IGI Batch Numbers, accessed 16 January 2014.
- ↑ 'OFHS Parish Records Date Finder,', Oxfordshire Family History Society, accessed 24 January 2014.