Goosey, Berkshire Family History Guide

Goosey is a chapelry of Stanford of the Vale Ancient Parish in Berkshire.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1850
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GOOSEY, a chapelry in Stanford-in-the-Vale parish, Berks; near the river Ock and the Great Western railway, 3½ miles NW by N of Wantage. Post town, Stanford-in-the-Vale, under Faringdon. Acres, 958. Real property, £2,397. Pop., 202. Houses, 37. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stanford-in-the-Vale, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is good.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census

Census returns for Goosey, 1841-1891

Church Records

Goosey, All Saints Church, parish registers : [parish register transcripts]
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Goosey; Howse, Violet M. (Violet Mary); Kearsey, Hugh A.

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : Wantage Registration District

Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire, parish registers, 1558-1914
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Stanford-in-the-Vale (Berkshire); Howse, Violet M. (Violet Mary); Brown, J.; Greenaway, Gwen; Oxfordshire Family History Society

Cemeteries

Goosey tombstones
Author: Howse, Violet M. (Violet Mary); Oxfordshire Family History Society

Monumental inscriptions, All Saints, Goosey : copy of the transcription held at Reading Reference Library
Author: Littleby, Irene; Crabbe, Anne; Duffy, Ellen; Berkshire Family History Society (England)

Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), Goosey tombstones
Author: Howse, Violet M. (Violet Mary)

History

Goosey : a parish record
Author: Howse, Violet M. (Violet Mary)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

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: Ock
  • Province: Canterbury