Society of Genealogists - England: Berkshire Resources

Berkshire

Shelf Mark: BK

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

Berkshire Record office: summary list of parish registers deposited by Anglican parishes within the Archdeaconry of Berkshire & Handlist of non-parochial registers: originals & transcripts in the Berkshire Record Office [Computer printout.] [BK/R 30]

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Berkshire [&] Oxfordshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences, by Taylor, Neville. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 8, part 1: Berkshire. 2nd edn., by Wilcox, Anthony (comp.). London: SoG Enterprises Ltd., 2003. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Berkshire collections of information on various parishes with lists of Archdeaconry of Berkshire wills & admons: Snell's genealogical collections, vol. 12, by Snell, Frederick Simon [Store A]

Berkshire collections; Berkshire subsidies; Hampstead wills in PCC; Hendon MIs, Kingsbury, Edgware & a few notes on other places in the hundred of Gore, Middlesex; list of Berkshire wills in the PCC 1746-1807 (T-Z): Snell's genealogical collections, vol. 21, part 2 [Manuscript.], by Snell, Frederick Simon [BK/G 16]

Extracts from Salisbury Diocesan records: notes taken at Salisbury, June 5 & 6 1931, June 1933, etc. [extracts from Act books 1580-1780 & some Bishop's Transcripts & marriage licences] [Manuscript.], by Boucher, R [WL/G 15]

Index to Lyson's environs of London, parts 1-2 [Manuscript.], by Whitmore, John Beach (comp.) [MX/M 57]

The records of the Bishop of Salisbury administrative records: transcripts of [Berkshire] parish registers to 1812: list of Berkshire BTs held at the Salisbury Diocesan Record Office [Typescript.] [BK/R 103]

The records of the Bishop of Salisbury administrative records: transcripts of parish registers from 1813-42, Wilts & Berks. & The records of the peculiars administrative records: transcripts of parish records [in Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire & Devon (1 only) to 1812]: in Wiltshire miscellanea [Typescript.] [WL/G 45]

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at the FamilySearch web site

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Berkshire & Oxfordshire Quarterly Meeting: Z 1612-1837, M 1648-1837 & 1726-54, B 1655-1837 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3371]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

Berkshire burial index. 3rd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

Out of area collection 1, 1975-76, parts 1-2, by Lodey, Marion J (comp.) [UK/REG]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

Marriage Licences

Alphabetical calendar of Berkshire Archdeaconry marriage bonds & affidavits, vol. 1: 1616-38, 1669-1717, vol. 2: 1718-81, vol. 3: 1782-1846 & Great Faringdon Peculiar, 1664-1740 & Langford Peculiar, 1676-1814 [BK/R 117-119]

Bishop's marriage licence bonds & allegations for the Diocese of Sarum, 2nd series, 1630-81 & 1606-45, 1653, 1660-1700 & index of bridegrooms & brides [Microfiche.] [ML/SAL/103667/1-4]

Bishop's marriage licence bonds for the Diocese of Sarum, 1700-1837 & index of bridegrooms & brides 1700-99 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Bishop's marriage licence bonds & allegations for the Diocese of Sarum, 1800-37 index of bridegrooms & brides [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Dean's marriage licence bonds for the Diocese of Sarum, 1573-1837 & index of bridegrooms & brides 1573-1837 [Microfiche.] [Apply to staff]

Index of marriage bonds & affidavits for areas of Peculiar jurisdiction in Oxfordshire, Berkshire & Buckinghamshire, 1623-1836 [Typescript.] [ML/GEN]

Marriage licences of Salisbury 1615-31, 1633-34, 1636-46, 1653, 1660-82: The Genealogist new series, vols. 24-38 [PER/GEN]

Miscellaneous marriage licence bonds for the diocese of Sarum : Precentor Westbury, Bratton & Dilton 1609-1837; Peculiar of Gillingham & Motcombe, Dorset 1664-1837; Peculiar of Corsham & Statton St. Margaret 1628-1765; Prebend of Chute & Chisenbury & Winterbourne Dauncey 1612-1818; Wantage, Berkshire 1669-95 [Microfiche.] [ML/SAL/101466/1-3]

Wantage marriage licence bonds 1669-93: Oxfordshire Family Historian, vol. 3 no. 2 [OX/PER]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

The antiquities of Berkshire, with a large appendix of many valuable original papers, pedigrees of the most considerable families in the said county & a particular account of the castle, college & town of Windsor, vols. 1-3 [Microfilm.], by Ashmole, Elias. Film copy of 1719 edn. [Mf 3634]

Berkshire war memorials part 1: villages, towns & C of E parish churches 1838-1982 & part 2: military units 1854-1991 (2 vols.), by Berkshire FHS (trans.) [Shelf 9]

Coats of arms in Berkshire churches, reprinted from the Berkshire Archaeological Journal, vols. 35-44, by Spokes, P S [BK/G 60-61]

Index to Lyson's environs of London, by Whitmore, John Beach (comp.) [MX/M 57]

Monumental inscriptions from 11 parishes in Cornwall, Berks, Bucks, Lincs, Middx & Yorks [Manuscript.], by Spears, E J (trans.) [MI/GEN]

Monumental inscriptions in England relating to West Indians: in Caribbeana, being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, & antiquities of the British West Indies, vols. 1-5, by Oliver, Vere Langford et al. ed. [Microfiche.] [Apply to library staff]

Out of area collection 1, 1975-76, Lodey, Marion J (comp.) [UK/REG]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes.

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

BERKSHIRE - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists, ed. by Newington-Irving, N J N. Society of Genealogists, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

BERKSHIRE - DIRECTORIES

or BERKSHIRE - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Parishes

A-E

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Berkshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

F-R

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Berkshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

S-Z

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Berkshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

Visit the GENUKI pages for Berkshire