Nuneham Courtenay

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Parish History

NUNEHAM-COURTNEY (All Saints), a parish,in the union of Abingdon, hundred of Bullingdon,county of Oxford, 5 miles (S. S. E.) from Oxford. [1]

History of this location by Mavis Batey: http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1968/batey.pdf

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

  • Parish Records begin at 1715
  • Bishop transcrips begin at 1721

 

Census records

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Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a FamilySearch Center or at the FamilySearch Library.



Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Cambridgeshire 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.

England Jurisdictions 1851
Vision of Britain

Web sites

Reference

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 446-461. Date accessed: 27 September 2012.