Earley, Berkshire Family History Guide
Earley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Berkshire, created in 1843 from Sonning Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Earleigh, Early
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1854
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1854
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
- Reading St Giles
- Shinfield
- Reading St Lawrence
- Sonning
- Caversham, Oxfordshire
- Bear Wood
- Dunsden, Oxfordshire
- Arborfield
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
EARLEIGH, Earley, or Early, a liberty and a chapelry in Sonning parish, Berks. The liberty lies near the Reading and Guildford railway, 2½ miles SE of Reading; and has a post office under Reading, and a r. station. Real property, £5,065. Pop., 566. Houses, 118. E. Court belongs to Viscount Sidmouth; Maiden-Earleigh, to B. Golding, Esq. The chapelry includes part of Woodley, and was constituted in 1854. Pop., 774. Houses, 154. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Oxford. Value, £175. Patron, the Vicar of Sonning, The church was built in 1844.
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
Early, a liberty in the parish of Sonning, county of Berks; 24 miles south-east of Reading. Here is a small daily school. Acres 2,280. Houses 89. Pop., in 1821, 447; in 1831, 441. Poor rates, in 1838, £547 15s.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Earley, 1841-1891
Church Records
Church History
The story of Earley St. Peter’s, 1884-1994
Author: Hanna, Lesley; Hanna, Chad
Cemeteries
Transcript of memorial inscriptions in St. Peter’s Church, Earley
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Taxation
History
Earley days : an illustrated account our community’s development
Author: Earley Local History Group
Earley memories : a century of change
Author: Earley Local History Group
Land and Property
Public Records
Endowed charities, county of Berkshire : Sonning, including Earley and Woodley and Sandford
Schools
Admission registers, 1875-1878
Author: Reading and Earley Board School (Reading, 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
- Province: Canterbury