Upton Berkshire Family History Guide

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Upton is a chapelry of Blewbury Ancient Parish in Berkshire.

Alternative names: Upton with Nottingham Fee

Parish church: St Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1588
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Upton Parish Registers

Upton Parish Registers 1588-1741

The Upton Parish Registers 1588-1741 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

The Registers of Upton in the County of Berkshire 1588-1741 Transcribed by Joseph Forrest Fry Edited by Edward Alexander Fry with the kind permission of The Rev. J. H. Moore (Rector of Upton). Baptisms 1588 to 1741, Burials 1588 to 1741, Marriages 1588 to 1735. Publisher: The Parish Register Society Date of publication: 1897.

The Register of Upton co Berkshire 9

The Registers of Upton in the County of Berkshire 1588-1741 Transcribed by Joseph Forrest Fry Edited by Edward Alexander Fry. Baptisms 1588 to 1741, Burials 1588 to 1741, Marriages 1588 to 1735.

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

UPTON, a chapelry in Blewberry parish, Berks; 2½ miles SSW of Didcot r. station, and 6 WSW of Wallingford. Post town, Wallingford. Acres, 1,378. Real property, £1,985. Pop., 306. Houses, 63. The property is chiefly divided among five. The living is a vicarage, united with Aston-Upthorpe, in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £88. Patron, the Bishop of O. The church is Norman, but was recently about to be superseded by a new edifice. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.

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

Historical Maps

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Administration

  • County: Berkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Wantage
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury
  • Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 – Salisbury, Post-1845 – Reading
  • Poor Law Union: Wantage
  • Hundred: Moreton
  • Province: Canterbury