Blewbury Berkshire Family History Guide

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Blewbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire. Upton and Aston Upthorpe are chapelries of Blewbury.

Other places in the parish include: Nottingham Fee.

Alternative names: Blewberry

Parish church: St Michael

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1588
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1591

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BLEWBERRY, a village in Wantage district, and a parish in Wantage and Wallingford districts, Berks. The village stands near the Ridgeway and Icknield-street; 2½ miles WSW of Wallingford Road r. station, and 4 NE by N of East Ilsley; and it has a post office under Wallingford, and a fair on the Thursday after 29 Sept. Pop., 639. Houses, 152.

The parish includes also the hamlet of Upton with Nottingham-Fee liberty, and the liberty of Aston-Upthorpe. Acres, 6,814. Real property, £8,071. Pop., 1,114. Houses, 251. The property is divided among a few. The ancient manor-house was engirt by moat and earthen rampart. Blewberry Hill has barrows and an ancient camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; and till 1866 was united with Upton and Aston-Upthorpe. Value, £161. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is old but good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free school for 30 boys and 30 girls, and a large amount of charities.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Blewberry, 4 miles S. W. Wallingford. P. 1096.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Parish Registers

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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England, Berkshire, Blewbury

England, Berkshire, Blewberry – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Blewbury St. Michael record of inscriptions on tombstones & tablets in interior and churchyard
Author: Girling, Charles; Goodey, M.; Kearsey, Hugh A.; Oxfordshire Family History Society

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

England, Berkshire, Blewberry – Church records ( 11 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Blewberry, 1591-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Blewberry (Berkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Upton, 1607-1835
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Upton (Berkshire)

Hungerford, Marlborough & Wantage : Wesleyan Methodist Circuits historic roll 1899-1904
Author: EurekA Partnership

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : Wantage Registration District

Parish chest records for Blewberry, 1712-1937
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Blewberry (Berkshire)

Parish registers and parish chest records for Aston-Upthorpe, 1795-1960
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Aston-Upthorpe (Berkshire)

Parish registers for Blewberry, 1588-1906
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Blewberry (Berkshire)

Parish registers for Blewberry, 1665-1925
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Blewberry (Berkshire)

Parish registers for Upton, 1588-1991
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Upton (Berkshire)

The registers of Blewbury, Co. Berks, 1588-1813
Author: Fry, Joseph Forrest

Registers of St. Michael’s Church, Blewbury, Berks, 1588-1995
Author: Kearsey, Hugh A.; Church of England. Parish Church of Blewberry (Berkshire); Oxfordshire Family History Society

England, Berkshire, Blewberry – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Blewbury, Berks., Eng

England, Berkshire, Blewberry – Court records ( 2 )
Court books of Prebendal manor, 1665-1938, at Blewburg
Author: Manor of Prebendal. Court (Berkshire)

Court books of the manor of Blewbury, Berkshire, 1710-1938
Author: Manor of Blewbury. Court (Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, Blewberry – Schools ( 1 )
Admission registers, 1876-1921
Author: Blewbury Church of England School (Blewbury, Berkshire)

Berkshire Historical Directories

Maps

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Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wantage
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 – Salisbury, Post-1845 – Abingdon
  • Poor Law Union: Wantage
  • Hundred: Moreton; Reading
  • Province: Canterbury