Ashampstead, Berkshire Family History Guide
Ashampstead is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1847 from chapelry in Basildon Ancient Parish.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1686
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Parishes adjacent to Ashampstead
Historical Descriptions
Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Ashamstead, 4 m. S. E. East Ilsley. P. 404.
Source: Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Directories
Ashampstead Berkshire Cassey History Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868
Is a small village and parish, 10 miles west from Reading, 9 from Wallingford, and 45 from London, in the hundred of Moreton, union of Bradfield, and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Clement is a plain structure, which was repaired in 1849. The living is a vicarage, annual value £80, in the alternate gift of the Rev. William Sykes, and the trustees of the late Rev. Charles Simeon. Here is a school, supported by voluntary subscriptions. The Baptists and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here.The population in 1861 was 385; the acreage is 2,057.
John Hopkins, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay and chalk.
Letters arrive from Reading at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m.
Holding Rev. John, M.A., Vicarage
Nullis Mr. Isaac
Smith Mr. Thomas
Albury James, wheelwright
Butler William, carpenter
Fuller Henry, baker & shopkeeper
Hancock James, tailor and shopkeeper
Isley Charles, shopkeeper
Lanfear William, farmer
Nullis George, shoemaker
Poole Henry, farmer, valuer, and land agent, Pitt house
Robins John, blacksmith
Shepherd Thomas, farmer
Shepherd Thomas Edward, farmer
Source: Edward Cassey and Co.’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868.
Parish Records
Berkshire Archives & Family History Groups
Berkshire Family History Society
Berkshire
England, Berkshire, Reading, Cemetery Records, 1843-1959
Wellington College Register 1859-1905
Abingdon Union Workhouse Census 1881
Bradfield Union Workhouse 1881
Easthampstead Union Workhouse 1881
Great Faringdon Union Workhouse 1881
Hungerford Union Workhouse 1881
Wallingford Union Workhouse 1881
Records for England
Births and Baptism Records
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977
England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Marriage Records
Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
Death Records
England Death Records, 1998-2015
England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957
England and Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1640-1660
Non-Conformist Records
England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977
Census
England and Wales Census, 1841
England and Wales Census, 1851
England and Wales Census, 1861
England and Wales Census, 1871
England and Wales Census, 1881
England and Wales Census, 1891
England and Wales Census, 1901
England and Wales Census, 1911
Occupations
United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941
War and Conflict
Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935
United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners' Service Records, 1760-1913
United Kingdom, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Discharge Documents of Pensioners 1760-1887 (WO 122)
United Kingdom, Maritime Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1787-1933
United Kingdom, Militia Service Records, 1806-1915
United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920
United Kingdom, World War I Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920
Newspaper Archives
British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices
British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries
Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bradfield
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Post-1835 - Oxford, Pre-1836 - Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Wallingford
- Poor Law Union: Bradfield
- Hundred: Moreton
- Province: Canterbury