Blewbury Berkshire Family History Guide
Blewbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Upton and Aston Upthorpe are chapelries of Blewbury.
Other places in the parish include: Nottingham Fee.
Alternative names: Blewberry
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1588
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1591
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BLEWBERRY, a village in Wantage district, and a parish in Wantage and Wallingford districts, Berks. The village stands near the Ridgeway and Icknield-street; 2½ miles WSW of Wallingford Road r. station, and 4 NE by N of East Ilsley; and it has a post office under Wallingford, and a fair on the Thursday after 29 Sept. Pop., 639. Houses, 152. The parish includes also the hamlet of Upton with Nottingham-Fee liberty, and the liberty of Aston-Upthorpe. Acres, 6,814. Real property, £8,071. Pop., 1,114. Houses, 251. The property is divided among a few. The ancient manor-house was engirt by moat and earthen rampart. Blewberry Hill has barrows and an ancient camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; and till 1866 was united with Upton and Acton-Upthorpe. Value, £161. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free school for 30 boys and 30 girls, and a large amount of charities.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Blewberry, 4 miles S. W. Wallingford. P. 1096.
Source: Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Parish Records
Blewbury Parish Registers 1588-1813 - archive.org
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
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
County: Berkshire
Civil Registration District: Wantage
Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
Diocese: Pre-1836 - Salisbury, Post-1835 - Oxford
Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 - Salisbury, Post-1845 - Abingdon
Poor Law Union: Wantage
Hundred: Moreton; Reading
Province: Canterbury