Society of Genealogists - England: Buckinghamshire Resources

Buckinghamshire

Shelf Mark: BU

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 in Buckinghamshire include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Buckinghamshire [&] Hertfordshire 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. 9, part 3 Buckinghamshire, compiled by Webb, Cliff London: SoG, 1992. [TB/PR] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript], by Boyd, Percival et al. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on-line at The Origins Network website.

Archdeaconry of Buckinghamshire - papers in the Bodleian Library: class list [Manuscript], ed. by Beevor, R J [Buckinghamshire tracts box]

Buckinghamshire ancestry, vol. 1: Parish registers & copies, BTs, other parish papers, nonconformist records, by McLaughlin, Eve [BU/G 20]

Buckinghamshire parish register transcripts & IGI list, compiled by McLaughlin, Antony R [Shelf 9]

Parish register typescripts prepared by W H Challen from parishes in London, midlands & southern counties in 87 volumes: in Reference tracts, vol. 2 , compiled by McIntyre, Mrs Perry [ML enquiry counter]

Records of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham (at the) Buckinghamshire Record Office [Typescript.] [Box 4/folder 34]

Irish strays [in Buckinghamshire], by Buckinghamshire FHS. [Box 4/folder 12]

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at Family Search.

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

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

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

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Buckinghamshire Quarterly Meeting : Z 1645-1837, M 1658-1835, B 1656-1837 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3372]

Society of Friends marriages in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, London & Middlesex [1660-1836]: Hertfordshire marriages, vol. 6 [Typescript.], compiled by Allen, Thomas F [HT/R 66]

Marriage Licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: Society of Genealogists, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.], by Society of Genealogists [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.], by Society of Genealogists [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network

16th century marriages (1538-1600), ed. by Bernau, Charles A [Store A (UK/REG)]

Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire marriage bonds, 1617-1735: offprint from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal, vol. 2, 1896 [Photocopy.], by Sherwood, George F Tudor [BU/R 93]

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

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) for Buckinghamshire include:

Monumental inscriptions from 11 parishes in Cornwall, Berks, Bucks, Lincs, Middx & Yorks [Manuscript], transcribed by Spears, E J [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, vol. 1-5, by Oliver, Vere Langford et al. [Microfiche] [Apply to library staff]

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:

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - 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:

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - DIRECTORIES

or BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - POLL BOOKS

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

Periodicals

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 SoG on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists, by Newington-Irving, N J N. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800, ed. by Camp, Anthony J [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at the National Archives.

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at findmypast.com.

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45, by Society of Genealogists [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

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

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS

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

Parishes

A-F

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

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

G-O

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

P-Z

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

link to GenUKI pages for Buckinghamshire

Visit the GENUKI pages for Buckinghamshire