Shrivenham Berkshire Family History Guide

Shrivenham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Watchfield is a chapelry of Shrivenham.

Other places in the parish include: Beckett, Bourton, Bowton, Fernham

Parish church: St. Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1575
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Shrivenham

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SHRIVENHAM, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Berks. The village stands near the Wilts and Berks canal, 1 mile N of the Great Western railway, and 5¼ SW of Faringdon; was once a market-town; and has a r. station with telegraph, and a post-office, designated Shrivenham, Berkshire. 

The parish includes two tythings and three townships. Acres, 8,430. Real property, £16,888. Pop., 2,258. Houses, 484. The manor, with Beckett House, belongs to Viscount Barrington. S. House is the seat of A. Sartoris, Esq. There are several handsome villas.

The living is a vicarage, with Watchfield chapelry, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £550. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is later English. The p. curacy of Longcot is a separate benefice. There are a reading and news room, a national school, alms houses with £84 a year, and other charities £24.

The sub-district contains five parishes, and two parts; and is in Faringdon district. Acres, 19,114. Pop., 4,521. Houses, 958.

The hundred contains six parishes, and three parts. Acres, 30,590. Pop., 5,684. Houses, 1,188.

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

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Shrivenham with Beckett, a parish in the hund. of Shrivenham, union of Faringdon, county of Berks; 5 miles south-south-west of Great Faringdon, intersected by the Wilts and Berks canal, and the Great Western railway, which has an intermediate station here 70¾ miles from the Paddington terminus, and 6¼ from the Swindon station.

The parish includes the tything of Bourton, the hamlet of Femham, the chapelry of Longcott, and the township of Watchfield.

Living, a vicarage, formerly in the archd. of Berks and dio. of Salisbury, now in the dio. of Oxford; rated at £20. Tithes commuted in 1789. Patron, the Crown. The church is a large and handsome Gothic structure.

Here are 7 daily and 2 day and Sunday schools. There are 8 alms houses, endowed with £84 per annum.

This was anciently a place of considerable importance, with a market and a fair, both long since discontinued. Acres 8,430. Houses 406. A.P. £12,901. Pop., in 1801, 1,599; in 1831, 2,113. Poor rates, in 1838, £336.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Becket

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Becket, a tything in the parish and hund. of Shrivenham, county of Berks; 5½ miles south-west of Farringdon, in the vicinity of the Great Western railway. Soon after the conquest, this manor fell to the Crown, and the manor-house was occasionally made a royal residence. Dr Shute Barrington, late bishop of Durham, was born here in 1731. Pop. returned with the parish.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

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.

Badcock John, Shrivenham, Berkshire, grocer and draper, Sept. 27, 1842.

Badcock Joseph, Shrivenham, Berkshire, draper, April 3, 1832,

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Use for:
England, Oxfordshire, Shrivenham

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

England, Berkshire, Shrivenham – Church records ( 8 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Longcott, 1612-1835
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Longcott (Berkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Shrivenham, 1606-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Shrivenham (Berkshire)

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : Faringdon Registration District
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

Parish chest and poor law records for Shrivenham, 1395-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Shrivenham (Berkshire)

Parish registers for Shrivenham, 1575-1972
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Shrivenham (Berkshire)

Parish registers, 1664-1994, and church and civil records, 1816-1870
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Longcott (Berkshire)

Shrivenham, baptisms 1575 to 1941, parish registers
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Shrivenham (Berkshire); Church, Rosemary; Oxfordshire Family History Society

St. Thomas parish registers, Watchfield
Author: Church, Rosemary; Church of England. Chapelry of Watchfield (Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, Shrivenham – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Longcot, Berkshire, England

Computer printout of Shrivenham, Berks., Eng

England, Berkshire, Shrivenham – Court records ( 1 )
Manor court books, 1523-1862 of the manor of Shrivenham
Author: Manor of Shrivenham. Court (Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, Shrivenham – History ( 1 )
Shrivenham : portraits of a typically English village
Author: Boobyer, David; Shrivenham Parish Council (Oxfordshire)

England, Berkshire, Shrivenham – Military records ( 1 )
Muster rolls of the Faringdon and Shrivenham Independent Company of Vale infantry, England, 1803-1812
Author: Disbury, David G.

England, Berkshire, Shrivenham – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
Parish chest and poor law records for Shrivenham, 1395-1861
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Shrivenham (Berkshire)

Parish chest materials, 1725-1908
Author: Watchfield (Berkshire)

Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Faringdon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
  • Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Abingdon
  • Poor Law Union: Faringdon
  • Hundred: Shrivenham
  • Province: Canterbury