County Resources
Oxfordshire
Shelf Mark: OX
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
- Marriage Licences
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Censuses
- Directories & Poll Books
- Periodicals
- Wills
- Parishes: A-D | E-N | O-Z
County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:
County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Berkshire [&] Oxfordshire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.OX/REG/102462/1-5
National index of parish registers, vol. 5: South Midlands & Welsh border comprising the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire. 3rd corrected edn. London: SoG, 1976. [TB/PR]
Oxfordshire parish registers & bishops transcripts. 5th edn.: Oxfordshire tracts, vol. 1 [OX/G 43]
Parish register typescripts prepared by W H Challen from parishes in London, midlands & southern counties in 87 volumes: Reference tracts, vol. 2 [Middle Library enquiry counter]
Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network.
International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org
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]
The Catholic registers of Fr. Monox Hervey [CM 1729-56]: Miscellanea, 9: Catholic Record Society publications, vol. 14 [RC/PER]
Jackson’s Oxford Journal: BMD(I) 1800-1820 [Microfiche.] [OX/REG/102462/1-5]
North Oxfordshire bishops' transcripts, vols. 1-4 [Manuscript.] [OX/R 12-13]
Oxfordshire marriage index 1538-1837 [Microfiche.] [OX/REG/79652-3/1-79]
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]
Snell's Oxfordshire notes: extracts from parish registers, MIs, lay subsidies, admons, wills & marriage bonds: Snell's genealogical collections, vol. 18 [Manuscript.] [BK/G 13]
Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.
Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website
Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire marriage bonds, 1617-1735: offprint from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal, vol. 2, 1896 [Photocopy.] [BU/R 93]
An index of brides & occupations in Oxford Diocesan marriage bonds 1661-1850 in the Bodleian Library [Typescript.] [ML/OXF]
Index of marriage bonds & affidavits for areas of peculiar jurisdiction in Oxfordshire, Berkshire & Buckinghamshire, 1623-1836 [Typescript.] [ML/GEN]
Index of marriage bonds & affidavits for licences granted by the Archdeacon of Oxford 1634-1849, vol. 1: 1634-36, 1643, 1663-1709, vol. 2: 1710-39, vol. 3: 1740-89 & vol. 4 1790-1849 [Manuscript.] [OX/R 1-4]
Index of Oxford archdeaconry marriage bonds & affidavits 1634-36, 1663-1856 [Typescript.] [OX/R 11B]
An index of Oxford Diocesan marriage bonds 1661-1850 in the Bodleian Library, vols. 1-6 [Typescript.] [ML/OXF]
Snell's Oxfordshire notes: extracts from parish registers, MIs, lay subsidies, admons, wills & marriage bonds: Snell's genealogical collections, vol. 18 [Manuscript.] [BK/G 13]
County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:
Catalogue of mss volumes of monumental inscriptions in churches & churchyards in Bampton, Aston, Lew, Shifford, Hethe, Launton, St. Clements, Oxford & Thame [Photocopy.] [Box 54/folder 19]
Epitaphs from Oxfordshire [OX/M 15]
Hallowed ground: churchyards of Gloucestershire & the Cotswolds [GL/M 7]
Oxfordshire church notes, vols. 1-2: MIs in Oxfordshire churches [Manuscript.] [OX/M 1]
Oxfordshire church notes, vol. 1: Adderbury to Kidlington (mainly MIs) & vol. 2: Lanford to Yarnton, index (mainly MIs) [Manuscript.] [OX/G 23-24]
Oxfordshire monumental inscriptions from the manuscripts of Antony A Wood, Dr Hutton & Mr Hinton [Store A folio shelves]
The trumpets sounded: commemoration of the war dead in the parish churches in Oxfordshire: Oxfordshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 7 [OX/M 14]
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. eg. Caversham 1821 census, Dunstew censuses 1811, 1821 & 1831, Kiddington census 1821, Oxford (St. Mary Magdalen) population returns 1801, 1811, Stanton Harcourt 1811, 1821 & 1831 censuses, Stoke Lyne 1801 census, Stonesfield 1801, 1811, 1821 & 1831 census, Wolvercote 1821 census
Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:
OXFORDSHIRE - CENSUSES
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.
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. SoG, 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:
OXFORDSHIRE - DIRECTORIES
or OXFORDSHIRE - POLL BOOKS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
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
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. 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 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at British Origins. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp
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 www.1837online.com
An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at British Origins
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:
OXFORDSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS
Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.
SOGCAT On-line
CatalogueThe Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Oxfordshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Adderbury | Adwell | Albury | Alkerton | Alvescot | Ambrosden | Ardley | Ascott under Wychwood | Asthall | Asthall Leigh | Aston near Bampton or Bampton Aston | Aston, North | Aston Rowant | Balscote | Balscott | Bampton | Bampton Lew | Banbury | Barford St John | Barford St Michael | Barton, Great | Barton Westcott | Beckley | Begbroke | Bensington | Benson | Berrick Salome | Bicester | Bicester Market End | Binsey | Bix | Black Bourton | Bladon | Bletchingdon | Bloxham | Bodicote | Bourton | Bourton, Great | Bradwell or Broadwell | Brightwell Baldwin | Britwell Prior | Britwell Salome | Brize Norton | Broughton | Broughton Poggs | Broughton with North Newington | Bucknell | Burcot | Burford | Cassington | Caversfield | Caversham | Chadlington | Chalgrove | Charlbury | Charlton on Otmoor | Chastleton | Checkendon | Chesterton | Chinnor | Chipping Norton & Stow on the Wold | Chislehampton | Churchill | Clanfield | Claydon | Clifton Hampden | Cogges | Combe | Cornwell | Cote | Cottisford | Cowley | Crawley | Cropredy | Crowell | Crowmarsh Gifford | Cuddesdon | Culham | Cuxham | Deddington | Dorchester | Drayton near Banbury | Drayton near Newington | Ducklington | Duns Tew
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Oxfordshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Easington | Elsfield | Emmington | Enstone | Epwell | Ewelme | Eynsham | Faringdon | Faringdon, Little | Fifield | Filkins | Finmere | Finstock | Forest Hill | Fringford | Fritwell | Fulbrook | Garsington | Glympton | Godington | Goring | Goring Heath | Grimsbury | Hailey | Hampton Gay | Hampton Poyle | Hanborough | Hanwell | Hardwick | Harpsden | Haseley, Great | Headington | Headington Quarry | Henley on Thames | Hethe | Heyford, Lower | Heyford, Upper or Heyford Warren | Heythrop | Holton | Holwell | Hook Norton | Horley | Hornton | Horspath | Horton cum Studley | Ibstone | Idbury | Iffley | Ipsden | Islip | Kelmscott | Kencott | Kiddington | Kidlington | Kidmore End | Kingham | Kingston Blount | Kirtlington | Langford | Launton | Leafield with Wychwood | Lew | Lewknor | Lillingstone Lovell | Littlemore | Mapledurham | Marsh Baldon | Marston | Merton | Middleton Stoney | Milcombe | Milton | Milton, Great | Milton under Wychwood | Minster Lovell | Mixbury | Mollington | Mongewell | Neithrop | Nettlebed | Newington | Newington, South | Newnham Murren | Newton Purcell | Noke | Northleigh | Northmoor | Nuffield | Nuneham Courtenay
The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Oxfordshire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.
Oddington | Overthorpe | Oxford | Piddington | Pishill | Pyrton | Ramsden | Rollright, Great | Rollright, Little | Rotherfield Greys | Rotherfield Peppard | Rousham | Salford | Sandford on Thames | Sandford St Martin | Sarsden | Shenington | Shefford in Bampton | Shilton | Shiplake | Shipton under Wychwood | Shipton upon Cherwell | Shirburn | Shorthampton | Shutford | Sibford Ferris | Somerton | Souldern | Southleigh | Spelsbury | Stadhampton | Standlake | Stanton Harcourt | Stanton St John | Steeple Aston | Steeple Barton | Stoke Lyne | Stoke, North | Stoke, South | Stoke Talmage | Stoke Row | Stokenchurch | Stonesfield | Stonor | Stratton Audley | Summertown | Swalcliffe | Swerford | Swinbrook | Swyncombe | Sydenham | Tackley | Tadmarton | Taynton | Tetsworth | Tew, Great | Tew, Little | Thame | Toot Baldon | Tusmore | Ufton Court & Woolhampton | Warborough | Wardington | Warneford Hospital | Waterperry | Waterstock | Watlington | Wendlebury | Westcott Barton | Weston on the Green | Weston, South | Westwell | Wheatfield | Whitchurch | Widford | Wigginton | Wilcote | Witney | Wolvercote | Wood Eaton | Woodstock | Wooton | Worton, Nether | Worton, Over | Wroxton | Yarnton | Yelford
