Bear Wood Berkshire Family History Guide

Bear Wood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1846 from Hurst Ecclesiastical Parish and Wokingham Ecclesiastical Parish.

Alternative names: Bearwood

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1846
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Sonning
• Barkham
• Wokingham
• Hurst
• Earley
• Arborfield

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BEARWOOD, a chapelry in Hurst and Wokingham parishes, Berks; 2¼. miles S of Wokingham r. station. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post Town is Wokingham. Pop., 814. Houses, 169. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £180. Patron, J. Walter, Esq. The church is handsome.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Berkshire, Bearwood – Cemeteries ( 1 )
St. Catherine’s Church, Bear Wood, monumental inscriptions, Berkshire
Author: Littleby, Irene; Crabbe, Anne; Berkshire Family History Society (England)

England, Berkshire, Bearwood – Church records ( 1 )
Parish registers Bearwood, St. Catherine : baptisms 1846-1949, banns 1851-1980, marriages 1846-1979, burials 1846-1929
Author: Berkshire Family History Society (England)

England, Berkshire, Bearwood – Schools ( 1 )
Admission registers, 1863-1927
Author: St. Catherine’s School (Bearwood, Berkshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

• County: Berkshire
• Civil Registration District: Wokingham
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
• Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
• Rural Deanery: Reading
• Poor Law Union: Wokingham
• Hundred: Charlton; Sonning
• Province: Canterbury