Burghfield Berkshire Family History Guide
Burghfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Alternative names: Burfield
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1559
- Bishop's Transcripts: 1607
Nonconformists include:
- Primitive Methodist
- Wesleyan Methodist
Parishes adjacent to Burghfield
- Sulhamstead Abbots
- Sulhamstead Bannister
- Reading St Giles
- Englefield
- Shinfield
- Theale
- Tilehurst
- Stratfield Mortimer
- Reading St Mary
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BURGHFIELD, or Burfield, a parish in Bradfield district, Berks; on the river Kennet, and on the Reading and Basingstoke railway, 2½ miles N of Mortimer station, and 5 SW of Reading. It has a post office under Reading. Acres, 4,237. Real property, £6,996. Pop., 1,139. Houses, 256. The property is much subdivided. Part of the land is common. A bed of sand and cockle shells a foot thick, under soft stone, was found at Hose hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £700. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church was rebuilt in 1843. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £21.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Burghfield, or Burfield, a parish in the hund. of Theale, union of Bradfield, county of Berks; 5 miles south-west of Reading. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. of Berks and dio. of Salisbury, now in the dio. of Oxford; rated at £14 19s. 2d.; gross income £883. Patron, in 1835, the Earl of Shrewsbury. There are a daily and a day and Sunday school in this parish. Pop., in 1801, 738; in 1831, 965. Houses 176. Acres 4,700. A.P. £6,189. Poor rates, in 1837, £428.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Burghfield, 4 miles S. Reading. P. 1115.
Source: Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
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
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bradfield
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 - Salisbury, Post-1835 - Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Reading
- Poor Law Union: Bradfield
- Hundred: Theale
- Province: Canterbury