Wootton, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

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Wootton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire. Woodstock is a chapelry of Wootton.

Alternative names: Wootton by Woodstock

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1654
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WOOTTON, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Oxford. The village stands on the river Glyme, 2¼ miles N by W of Woodstock, and 3 W by N of Kirtlington r. station; and has a post-office under Woodstock. The parish includes part of Woodstock town, and is in Woodstock district. Acres, 3,720. Real property, £5,954. Pop., 1,238. Houses, 269. The manor belongs to the Duke of Marlborough. Woodleys and Hollybank are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £800. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, endowed schools for boys and girls, and charities £25.-The hundred contains 35 parishes. Acres, 67,590. Pop., 23,011. Houses, 4,901.

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

Parish Registers

Wootton Marriages 1564-1837

Wootton Marriages 1564-1837 Oxfordshire parish registers. v.1 – HathiTrust

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Wootton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Wootton (Oxon) monumental inscriptions
Author: Andrew, John; Oxfordshire Family History Society

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

England, Oxfordshire, Wootton – Church history ( 1 )
Wootton : the history of an Oxfordshire parish
Author: Posenby, C.

England, Oxfordshire, Wootton – Church records ( 1 )
Marriages at Wootton, 1564-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wootton (Oxfordshire); Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913

England, Oxfordshire, Wootton – History ( 1 )
Wootton, the history of an Oxfordshire parish
Author: Ponsonby, Charles

England, Oxfordshire, Wootton – Schools ( 1 )
Wooton Charity School records, 1788-1855
Author: Wooton Charity School (Oxfordshire)

Maps

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

Administration

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