East Lockinge Berkshire Family History Guide

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East Lockinge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.

Other places in the parish include: West Ginge and Betterton.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1546

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The gazetteers refer to East and West Lockinge. West Lockinge is a hamlet in the parish of Wantage.

East Lockinge

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Lockinge (East and West), a parish in tbe hund. and union of Wantage, county of Berks; 2½ miles east-south-east of Wantage, in the line of the Great Western railway.

The parish includes the tything of Betterton and West Ginge. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. of Berks and dio. of Salisbury, now in tbe dio. of Oxford; rated at £31 10s.; gross income £549. Tithes of East Lockinge commuted in 1840; aggregate amount £520. Patron, the warden of All Soul’s college, Oxford.

Here are 2 daily and 2 evening schools. Charities, in 1837, about £7 per annum. Acres 3,680. Houses 77. A. P. £3,853. Pop., in 1801, 305; in 1831, 373.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Lockinge (East and West), 1 m. E. Wantage. P. 325.

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

Betterton

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Betterton, a tything in the parish of Lockinge, Berks; 2½ miles east-south-east of Wantage, in the vicinity of the Berks and Wilts canal.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Betterton and West Ginge, in Lockinge parish. P. 17

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Berkshire, East Lockinge – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for East Lockinge, 1605-1835
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of East Lockinge (Berkshire)

East Lockinge, All Saints, parish registers, [1590-1999]
Author: Littleby, Irene; Berkshire Family History Society (England); Church of England. Parish Church of East Lockinge (Berkshire); Oxfordshire Family History Society

Parish registers, 1546-1897, and church and civil records, 1692-1933
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of East Lockinge (Berkshire)

England, Berkshire, East Lockinge – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printout of East Lockinge, Berkshire, England

England, Berkshire, East Lockinge – History ( 2 )
Estate villages : a study of the Berkshire villages of Ardington and Lockinge
Author: Havinden, M. A. (Michael Ashley); Thornton, D. S. (Douglas S.); Wood, P. D. (Peter D.)

History of the parish of East Lockinge
Author: Hallam, W. H.

England, Berkshire, East Lockinge – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish registers, 1546-1897, and church and civil records, 1692-1933
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of East Lockinge (Berkshire)

Administration

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