Winslow, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide

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Winslow is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Other places in the parish include: Shipton.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1571

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, and Strict Baptist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Winslow. High Street, South End 1945
Winslow. High Street, South End 1945

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINSLOW, a small town, a parish, and a district, in Bucks.

The town stands on the brow of a hill, adjacent to the Oxford and Bletchley railway, 6½ miles SE of Buckingham; was given, in 794, by King Offa, to St. Alban’s abbey; is a seat of petty-sessions; comprises three neat well built streets, with a central market place; and has a head post-office, a r. station with telegraph, a banking-office, a good inn, a police station, a later English church, Independent and Baptist chapels, an endowed school with £42 a year, a national boys’ school, a parochial girls’ school, a workhouse, charities £28, a weekly market on Wednesday, and ten annual fairs.

The parish comprises 1,920 acres. Real property, £7,631; of which £190 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,890. Houses, 376. The manor belongs to W. S. Lowndes, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £220. Patron, the Lord Chancellor.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

WINSLOW SHEEP STREET
WINSLOW SHEEP STREET

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Buckinghamshire, Winslow – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Winslow cum Shipton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Buckinghamshire, Winslow – Church records ( 4 )
Births and baptisms, 1817-1836
Author: Independent Church (Winslow, Buckinghamshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Winslow, 1571-1838
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winslow (Buckinghamshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Winslow, 1629-1640
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winslow (Buckinghamshire)

Transcripts of church register transcripts, 1572-1800
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Winslow (Buckinghamshire)

England, Buckinghamshire, Winslow – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Winslow, Independent, Bucks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Winslow, Buckingham, England (Independent) ; christenings, 1815-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Buckinghamshire, Winslow – Directories ( 1 )
Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, Winslow, and Woburn Sands year book and directory
Author: Oldham, E. Forbes

Administration

  • County: Buckinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District: Winslow
  • Probate Court: Pre-1846 – Court of the Archdeaconry of St Albans, Post-1845 – Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
  • Diocese: Pre-1845 – Lincoln, Post-1844 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Buckingham
  • Poor Law Union: Winslow
  • Hundred: Cottesloe
  • Province: Canterbury