Bradfield, Berkshire Family History Guide

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Bradfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1539

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Bradfield Parish Registers

Marriages at Bradfield 1559-1812

The Marriages at Bradfield 1559-1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Marriages at Bradfield 1559-1812 Berkshire Parish Registers: Marriages Volume 2 Edited by The Late W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L. and T. M. Blagg, F.S.A.

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Marriages at Bradfield 1559-1812 Berkshire Parish Registers: Marriages Volume 2 Edited by The Late W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L. and T. M. Blagg, F.S.A.

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Bradfield Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Bradfield. The index includes information from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837 and London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.

Marriage Licences and Allegations

Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837

The following have been extracted from Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.

Box, William, of Bradfield, co. Berks, & Jane Arundel, of Burghclere, at B., 10 Feb., 1730.

London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869

The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887.

Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.

Wingfield, Richard, of St. George, Sonthwark, Surrey, gent., bachelor, about 23, and Anne Wingfield, of Bradfield, Berks, spinster, about 21, her mother’s consent — at St. Mary, in Reading, co. Berks. 16 Sept. 1669. V. 

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRADFIELD, a village, a parish, and a district in Berks. The village stands on an affluent of the river Thames, 3 miles NW by W of Theale r. station, and 7½ W of Reading; and has a post office under Reading. The parish comprises 4,384 acres. Real property, £6,558. Pop., 1,167. Houses, 200. The property is divided among a few. Bradfield Hall is a chief residence. The surface contains rich close scenes, and commands fine views. The living is a rectory, united with the p curacy of Trinity, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £788. Patron, the Rev. T. Stevens. The church was restored and enlarged in 1848. There are two chapels-of-ease and a P. Methodist chapel.

St. Andrews college is a handsome edifice of 1850; and was endowed in 1859, and chartered in 1862, as a foundation-school for 16 founder’s boys and 153 commoners. An Abbey was founded here, before the close of the 7th century, by King Ina. Bishop Lloyd was sometime rector.

The district comprehends the subdistrict of Bucklebury, containing the parishes of Bradfield, Bucklebury, Frilsham, Yattendon, Stanford-Dingley, Basildon, Ashampstead, Streatley, and Goring,-the last electorally in Oxford; the subdistrict of Mortimer, containing the parishes of Stratfield-Mortimer, Beenham-Vallence, Aldermaston, Padworth, Ufton, Sulhampstead-Bannister, Sulhampstead-Abbots, and Burghfield; and the subdistrict of Tilehurst, containing the parishes of Tilehurst, Englefield, Tidmarsh, Sulham, Purley, Pangbourn, Whitchurch, and Maple-Durham, the two last electorally in Oxford.

Acres, 62,166. Poor-rates in 1866, £11,902. Pop. in 1861, 15,771. Houses, 3,323. Marriages in 1866, 88; births, 478, of which 30 were illegitimate; deaths, 266, of which 72 were at ages under 5 years, and 13 at ages above 85 years. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 874; births, 5,015; deaths, 3,035. The places of worship in 1851 were 27 of the Church of England, with 4,651 sittings; 5 of Independents, with 825 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 124 s.; 3 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 344 s.; 5 of Primitive Methodists, with 772 s.; and 3 of Lady Huntingdon’s Connexion, with 580 s. The schools were 23 public day schools, with 1,075 scholars; 25 private day schools, with 553 s.; and 18 Sunday schools, with 800 s. The workhouse is in Bradfield, and cost £7,450.

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

Bradfield, 6 miles S.W. Reading. P. 1042.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Bradfield, co. Berks.

P. T. Reading (38) 8 m. W. Pop. 946.

A parish in the hundred of Theale; living, a rectory in the archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Salisbury; valued in K. B. 19l. 7s. 8½d.; church ded. to St. Andrew; patron (1829) the Rev. H. Stevens.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bradfield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Oxford, Pre-1836 – Salisbury
  • Rural Deanery: Reading
  • Poor Law Union: Bradfield
  • Hundred: Theale
  • Province: Canterbury