Watlington, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

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Watlington is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Oxfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Wormondiscombe and Greenfield.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1635
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1678

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WATLINGTON, a small town, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Henley district, Oxford. The town stands at the foot of the Chiltern hills, 8 miles NE of Wallingford r. station; was known, at Domesday, as Watelintone; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office under Tetsworth, a good inn, a police station of 1860, a town hall of 1644, a-lecture-hall, an ancient church, two dissenting chapels, an endowed school, charities £102, two breweries, and two annual fairs. The parish includes three liberties, and comprises 3,440 acres. Real property, £6,062. Pop., 1,938. Houses, 418. The manors belong to T. S. Carter, Esq., and the Rev. W. P. Hutton; and W. Park is Mr. Carter’s seat. A moated castle of 1338 was here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £240. Patron, T. S. Carter, Esq.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Oxfordshire, Watlington – Church records ( 5 )
The non-parochial registers of South Oxfordshire and Oxford : deposited at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London Author: Young, Brian R.; Oxfordshire Family History Society

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : South Oxon Registration District Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

Parish registers for Watlington, 1635-1812 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Watlington (Oxfordshire)

Register of births and of baptisms with water, 1824-1837 Author: Wesleyan Chapel (Watlington, Oxfordshire)

Watlington Oxfordshire parish registers Author: Goadby, F. R. L; Harris, Colin G.; Church of England. Parish Church of Watlington (Oxfordshire)

England, Oxfordshire, Watlington – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Watlington, Oxon., Eng

Computer printout of Watlington, Wesleyan, Oxon., Eng

Parish register printouts of Watlington, Oxford, England (Wesleyan) ; christenings, 1824-1837 Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Maps

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

Administration

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