A Selection of Useful Links for Banburyshire
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Personal Family History Web Sites
- Dave Ayriss
The Ayriss Family - Jack Blecowe
Blencowe Families' Association
Lots of information on the Blencowes (and variations) of Brackley, Bicester and Kings Sutton - Dennis Cakebread
Den's Pages
Family History of our Cakebread, Gregory, Harrison, and Cookson Ancestors in ... Bloxham. Bourton. Cropredy. Steeple Aston - Peter Cook
Cook Family Website
The WELLER line 'appears' in Banbury, Oxfordshire c1790, the MOBLEY family is from Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire, but probably originates back over the border in Oxfordshire - Peter Cook
Surname Index to "Banbury - A History"
Index extracted from the 1984 Reprint by Oxfordshire County Libraries which was taken from Volume 10 of the "Victoria History of the County of Oxford" - Dave Foster and Irene Hartwell
Dave Foster and Irene Hartwell Family Trees English family are all from Banburyshire and Bucks. Direct ancestors' surnames are Baker, Blackamore, Blake, Blencowe, Byles, Cole, Cox, Davis, Edwards, Finch, Gentle, Green, Hale, Handy, Harbage, Hartwell, Hayward, Hewins, Hopkins, Lines, Lovell, Marshall, Moss, Pargiter, Prentice, Roberts, Robins, Sabin, Sergeant, Smith, Tenant, Turner, Vane, Watts, Webb, Whetstone, Woolhead. - Richard Kendell
Richard Kendall's Ancestors
Ancestors (some back to the 1500s) with 300 different surnames from Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. Village photos. Trade guide extracts - Fay McKenzie-Edmonds
Northamptonshire Wills
Mostly transcripts of will for WATTS and related families the parish of Sulgrave and surrounding areas. - Isabel Miles
CRIPPS - BOYLAND - EVERETT - TAYLOR families
Researching the CRIPPS family from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire who migrated to South Wales in the 1850's. - Patrick Mould
MOULD Family Genealogy
Research of the MOULD, MOLD, MOLE surnames worldwide, research projects include the MOULD Surname DNA Project, pedigrees, ancestry, et. al. - John Plester
PLESTER: Just six per million of the population, but a very Banburyshire name. - Ann Williams
Collins and Wise families from Bloxham Oxfordshire - Rod Wise
Wise Family Tree
Wise family of Banbury, Town Criers, Gaolers, Sargeants at Mace, Clerks of the Market, Inspectors of Weights, Publicans and Gardeners
Family & Historical Societies
- Banbury Historical Society The Banbury Historical Society was founded in 1957 to encourage interest in the history of the town of Banbury and neighbouring parts of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.
- Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
- Buckinghamshire Family History Society
- Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society
- Northamptonshire Family History Society
- Northamptonshire Records Society The society publishes records of the ancient county of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough and promotes the study of the county's history.
- Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society
- Oxfordshire Family History Society
- Warwickshire Family History Society
GenUKI
- UK
& Ireland Genealogical Information Service (GENUKI): A
good place to start family history research in the British Isles.
The aim of GENUKI is to serve as a comprehensive reference library
of genealogical information that is of particular relevance to the
UK & Ireland
If you are new to this site - please read this page first - GENUKI Gazetteer: a very useful search engine as you can also search for part of the name of a place - the word beginning, the word ending or the word containing.
- Getting Started
- Buckinghamshire
- Northamptonshire
- Oxfordshire
- Warwickshire
Look-up Exchange
- Look-up Exchange
- erghamshire?
- Northamptonshire
- Oxfordshire?
- Warwickshire?
Mailing Lists, Forums and Message Boards
- Notes & Comments About Mailing Lists: A useful place to start if you are new to mailing lists - or want a refresher course on mailing list etiquette!
- Genealogical Resources on the Internet An extensive file of genealogy-related resources on the Internet including mailing lists started by John Fuller and continued now by Linda Lambert and Megan Zurawicz
- RootsWeb : Nearly 30,000 genealogy mailing lists - all free
- RootsWeb Message Boards : The world's largest online genealogy community with over 17 million posts on more than 161,000 boards
- Yahoo! Groups : UK Genealogy
- Google Groups
- Banburyshire Mailing List
-- that's us! : A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical
interest in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, and adjacent areas
(approximately 20 mile radius) in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and
Northamptonshire
» List archives » Browse messages - Buckinghamshire Mailing List : A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the county of Buckinghamshire
- Bucks Mailing List : A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the county of Buckinghamshire
- Northants Mailing List : A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the county of Northamptonshire
- Oxfordshire Mailing List : A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the county of Oxfordshire
- Warwick Mailing List: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the county of Warwickshire
- Canal People A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the boat people on the inland waterways of England
- UK Genealogy Newbies : A mailing list for those who are unfamiliar with genealogical research in the United Kingdom
Maps
- Banburyshire Maps : Maps of Banbury and surrounding villages and hamlets from 1833 to the present day
National Sites
This is a limited list of some of the key, free, websites of use to family historians:
- Family Search (LDS) : Church of the Latter-day
Saints
The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world, including the International Genealogical Index ( IGI), Ancestral File, the 1881 census, their Library Catalogue, details of Family Research Centres etc.... - RootsWeb Home Page : The internet's oldest and largest Free genealogical community
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
- FreeBMD
: FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe
the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for
England and Wales, and to provide free internet access to the
transcribed records and original images.
Note that this index is not complete - FreeCEN : This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns
- FreeREG
: The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet
searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been
transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the
UK.
Please note that FreeREG is a work in progress - and volunteers are always welcome! - Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history.
- Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS) : A one-name study is a project researching all occurrences of a surname
- ViewFinder : The photographs on ViewFinder are all held by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage
Local Record Offices, Archives, Libraries and Museums
- Banbury Library & Centre for Banburyshire Studies (COBS)
Marlborough Road
Banbury
Oxfordshire OX16 5DB
Telephone: 01295 262282 No website
- Banbury Museum, Horsefair, Banbury
Open: April to September.
Telephone: 01295 259855
The museum tells the story of "Banburyshire" and is housed in the old boardroom of the Poor Law Guardians. The museum holds a large collection of photographs and glass plate negatives of the region. (No website?) - Granary Museum of Bygones
Butlin Farm, Claydon, Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Telephone: 0129 589 258
Housed in a former granary and cowshed, the displays show 19th and early 20th Century material from the homes, farms, offices and craftsmen's workshops of North Oxfordshire. - Swalcliffe Barn
Known locally as the Tythe Barn, Swalcliffe Barn was built between 1400 and 1409, and it is one of the dozen best barns in the country, with much of its mediaeval timber half-cruck roof intact. - Edge Hill Battle Museum
Farnborough Hall, Farnborough, Banbury
Telephone: 0129595 89593
On 23 October 1642, the Parliamentary Army, clashed at Edge Hill with the Royalist Army commanded by King Charles 1. Thirty thousand Englishmen fought this, the first major battle of the English Civil War. - Cogges Manor Farm Museum
Church Lane, Cogges, Witney
Telephone: 01993 772602
A farm and Manor House as they would have looked in late Victorian times, with old-fashioned breeds of animals, period room displays and demonstrations of cooking, hand milking, butter-making, seasonal farm work, lacemaking, spinning, traditional crafts etc
- Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies Buckinghamshire Record Office and Local Studies service are the major repositories for source material of interest to family historians in Buckinghamshire.
- Northamptonshire Central Library
- Northamptonshire Record Office
- Oxfordshire History Centre Oxfordshire Record Office, Oxfordshire Studies and Oxfordshire Health Archives are now all in one building where you will find a variety of resources for researching family history, house history and local history.
- Oxfordshire Heritage Search
- Warwickshire County Library
- Warwickshire County Record Office
Surnames Lists
- Surname Research Directories : Maintained on behalf of GenUKI
- UK Surnames
- RootsWeb Surname List : huge!
- Banburyshire : that's us!
- Buckinghamshire
- Northamptonshire Surnames List
- Oxfordshire Surname Interest : (OXSIL)
- Warwickshire Surnames List
- Surname Thesaurus
Abbreviations, Terms & Definitions
- Country and County Codes : Chapman Codes - British Isles
- Chapman County Codes - notes here on this site
- Administrative Regions of the British Isles
- Occupations : Old occupations
- Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
- Weights & Measures : "This website is dedicated to the memory of the British Imperial Weights and Measures"
- Acronym Finder : find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initial stands for
Villages
- Aynho, "the Apricot Village" Northamptonshire
- Banbury
Banbury-Cross
Banbury Town
St Mary's Church Banbury - Bloxham Village Museum
- Boddington parish website Contact: [email protected] - Simon Harding
- Byfield "A Visit to Byfield in Northamptonshire"
- Chacombe, Northamptonshire
- Charlton-cum-Newbottle, Northamptonshire
- Cherington "Little History of Cherington and Stourton", Warwickshire
- Cherwell Valley News : includes: Ardley-with-Fewcott, Caulcott, Fritwell, Rousham, Somerton, Souldern, The Heyfords
- Cropredy : Mewslade
- Culworth, Northamptonshire
- Deddington OnLine, Oxfordshire, Three villages in one parish: Deddington, Clifton and Hempton
- Eydon, Northamptonshire
- Farnborough : "A Little History of Farnborough", Warwickshire: 1821 census & "Notes from the pocket book of a Warwickshire bailiff, 1758"
- Fritwell : includes: Ardley-with-Fewcott, Caulcott, Cherwell, Rousham, Somerton, Souldern, The Heyfords
- Helmdon : includes Monumental Inscriptions for Helmdon, lists of names being researched there, and historical documents of genealogical value, including enclosure records, militia lists, directories, school records, etc.
- Horton
- Kineton, Warwickshire
- Kings Sutton : This is a new site, with lots of potential
- Newbottle, Northamptonshire
- North Aston : village website
- Preston Capes : includes a section on genealogy and village history
- Shalstone
Genealogy Page : Buckinghamshire
Heather Olsen's site established to share information with others who are researching ancestors who lived in the parish of Shalstone - Tingewick : The people of "Tingewick", Buckinghamshire
- Warmington
: Warmington Heritage Group
The website aims to be a resource not only for members and friends but also for anyone with an interest in this area, its history and its people. Contact Liz Newman [email protected] Jan2012 - Westbury : Parish Records and a history of the Church and village
- Woodford, Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
- Northamptonshire FreeReg : records from
Northamptonshire parishes and non-conformist chapels
Additional volunteers, or donations of existing transcripts are always very welcome! No special expertise is required - Northamptonshire Parish Data
- Northamptonshire Family History Baptism, Burial & Marriage Indexes (taken from the parish registers); Mercury Newspaper Index, Militia, Soldier, Wills 1841 and 1871 Census Indexes; photographs
- North Oxfordshire Church Photographs : from North Oxfordshire & parts of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire & Gloucestershire, Brian Curtis
- Northamptonshire Wills : A large number of wills from Sulgrave and some of the surrounding parishes, transcribed and indexed by Fay McKenzie-Edmonds
- Surrey Plus Wills : The "Plus" includes wills from Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire
- Northamptonshire Genealogy Website
Oxfordshire
- Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels, Brian Curtis
- North Oxfordshire Church Photographs, including some from Warwickshire and Northamptonshire
- John Ward's Oxfordshire Churches
- Maps of Oxfordshire parishes from Oxfordshire Family History Society
- Faces of Oxfordshire - Family Faces
- Oxfordshire Genealogical Resources by Donnette Stringham Smith includes Oxford Archdeacon's Marriage Bonds and the 1662 Hearth Tax Returns for Ploughley Hundred Area in Oxfordshire
Warwickshire
- Pickard's Pink Pages : The Warwickshire Ancestor Project - Contains links to many online sources including PRs, MIs, strays, directories, Warwickshire Inns, Warwickshire blacksmiths etc. Well worth a visit!
- Warwickshire Research On-Line A basic guide
- North Oxfordshire Church Photographs : from North Oxfordshire & parts of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire & Gloucestershire, Brian Curtis