Great Tew, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Great Tew is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire. Little Tew is a chapelry of Great Tew.

Alternative names: Great Tue, Wichell Tew

Parish church: St Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1606
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669; 1721

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TEW (Great), a parish, with a village, in Chipping-Norton district, Oxford; 5½ miles ENE of Chipping-Norton r. station. It has a post-office under Enstone. Acres, 3,140. Real property, £5,061. Pop., 454. Houses, 94. The manor belonged to the Raynsfords; passed to the Tanfields, the Falklands, the Kecks and others; and, with Great Tew House, belongs now to M. P. Boulton, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £134. Patron, M. P. Boulton, Esq. The church is chiefly early and later English. There are a national school, and charities £36.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
Thomas Simons, of F. C, & Mary Buller, p. Great Tew. 6 Apr. 1740Fenny Compton

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Great Tew – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Great Tew, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Oxfordshire, Great Tew – Church records ( 1 )

Chipping Norton and Stow Primitive Methodist Circuit : baptisms 1863-1930
Author: EurekA Partnership; Chipping Norton and Stow Primitive Methodist Circuit

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Oxfordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Chipping Norton
  • Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
  • Diocese: Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Deddington
  • Poor Law Union: Chipping Norton
  • Hundred: Wootton
  • Province: Canterbury