Cookham, Berkshire Family History Guide

Cookham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.

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Parish registers: 1563
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607

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

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COOKHAM, a village, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred in Berks. The village stands on the river Thames, adjacent to the Maidenhead and Wycombe railway, 3 miles N of Maidenhead; has a post office under Maidenhead, a station on the railway, an inn much resorted to by anglers, a wooden bridge across the Thames, a parish church, an endowed school, and an alms-house; was the meeting-place, between 996 and 1,001, of a gemot, attended by many thanes from Wessex and Mercia; was once a market-town, and still has fairs on 16 May and 11 Oct. The church is early English, with western tower of flint; was restored in 1860; and contains several good brasses, a canopied altar-tomb of 1517, and a fine marble monument by Flaxman to Sir Isaac Bocock. The parish contains also Cookham-Dean village and part of Maidenhead borough. Acres, 6,509. Real property, £25,374. Pop., 4,468. Houses, 832. The property is much subdivided. A skirmish was fought, in the civil wars, at Battle-Mead. A number of Roman swords and javelin-heads was found, in 1830, at Sashes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £480. Patron, J. Rogers, Esq. The chapelries of Cookham-Dean and Maidenhead are separate benefices. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The sub-district contains the parishes of Cookham, Bisham, and Hurley. Acres, 13,126. Pop., 6,317. Houses, 1,202. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Bray, containing the parishes of Bray, Shottesbrook, Waltham-St. Lawrence, and White-Waltham. Acres, 29,588. Poor-rates in 1862, £6,319. Pop. in 1841, 11,058; in 1861, 13,031. Houses, 2,522. Marriages in 1860, 82; births, 396, of which 19 were illegitimate; deaths, 219, of which 61 were at ages under 5 years, and 9 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 797; births, 3,961; deaths, 2,259. The places of worship in 1851 were 12 of the Church of England, with 5,995 sittings; 5 of Independents, with 809 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 120 s.; 6 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 761 s.; 5 of Primitive Methodists, with 306 s.; 2 of Lady Huntingdon’s Connexion, with 400 s.; and 1 undefined, with 16 attendants. The schools were 15 public day schools, with 1,324 scholars; 26 private day schools, with 443 s.; and 24 Sunday schools, with 2,322 s. The hundred contains only four parishes. Acres, 9,716. Pop., 3,809. Houses, 735.

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

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Cookham Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1607-1635

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

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