Speenhamland, Berkshire Family History Guide
Speenhamland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1844 from Speen Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Newbury St Mary the Virgin
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1831
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1836
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SPEENHAMLAND, a chapelry in Speen parish, Berks; adjacent to Newbury town and r. station. Post town, Newbury. Real property, £4,633; of which £92 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,767. Houses, 366. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £152. Patron, the Vicar of Speen. The church was built in 1830.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Botham Eleanor, Speenhamland, Berks, innholder, April 6, 1841.
Parish Records
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Maps
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Newbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Newbury
- Poor Law Union: Newbury
- Hundred: Faircross; Kintbury Eagle
- Province: Canterbury