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Boundary Changes Affecting Archive Holdings[edit | edit source]
- The Vale of White Horse district and parts of the South Oxfordshire administrative district south of the River Thames were historically part of Berkshire, but, in 1974, Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon, Wallingford and Wantage were added to the administrative county of Oxfordshire.
- The Caversham area of Reading, now administratively in Berkshire, was historically part of Oxfordshire, as was the parish of Stokenchurch, now administratively in Buckinghamshire.
- The areas of Oxford city south of the Thames, such as Grandpont, were transferred much earlier, in 1889.
Archives[edit | edit source]
(In July 2011 the former Oxfordshire Record Office, Oxfordshire Studies (formerly in Oxford's Central Library), and the Oxfordshire Health Archives (formerly at the Warneford Hospital) were merged into one comprehensive history service and renamed Oxfordshire History Centre.
Oxfordshire History Centre
St. Luke’s Church
Temple Road
Cowley, Oxford OX4 2HT UK
Telephone: 01865 398 200
Email: oxhist@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Website
Digital resources for Oxfordshire history: Births, marriages and deaths
Catalogues
Heritage Search
- Use Heritage Search to find holdings for most parishes. A few records are still being processed and are found in the Parish catalogues
Oxfordshire Health Archives
Oxfordshire History Centre
St. Luke’s Church
Temple Road
Cowley, Oxford OX4 2HT UK
Telephone: 01865 398 243
Email: archives@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Website
Family History Enquiries
Libraries[edit | edit source]
Oxfordshire County Library (formerly Oxford Central Library)
Westgate, Oxford OX1 1DJ UK
Telephone (General enquiries): 01865 815 509 and 01865 815 549
Telephone (Information and reference enquiries): 01865 815 409
Email: oxfordcentral.library@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Website
Museums[edit | edit source]
- For a long list of Oxfordshire museums, go to List of museums in Oxfordshire in Wikipedia.
Museums Resource Centre
Cotswold Dene
Standlake
Witney
OX29 7QG, UK
The centre houses the county's collections of archaeology, history and natural history.
History at the Museums Resources Centre
- We have history collections from most towns and parishes in the county. To see some of these collections, go to the Heritage Search.
The Oxfordshire Museum
Fletcher's House
Park Street
Woodstock
OX20 1SN, UK
Telephone: 01865 897519
Website
Civil Registration Offices[edit | edit source]
The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.
Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, see UKBMD: Registration Districts in Oxfordshire.
- Apply for a birth, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate in Oxfordshire
- Locations of registration offices in Oxfordshire
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