Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire Family History Guide
Weston Underwood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire, created in 1778 from a chapelry in Olney Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1681
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1575
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Roman Catholic.
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Adjacent Parishes
Weston Underwood Parish Registers
Weston Underwood (Catholic) Parish Registers 1710-1785 – The Catholic Registers of Weston Underwood, in the county of Buckingham 1710-1785 Privately Printed for Frederick Arthur Crisp. Publisher: Frederick Arthur Crisp Date of publication: 1887 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WESTON-UNDERWOOD, a parish, with a village, in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks; 1¾ mile WSW of Olney, and 5 N of Newport-Pagnell r. station. It has a post-office under Newport-Pagnell. Acres, 1,300. Real property, £2,958. Pop., 398. Houses, 92. The manor has belonged, since the time of Henry VI., to the Throckmortons. The poet Cowper resided, for some years, in a house still standing on the right of the village; and he described, in his poems, much of the surrounding scenery. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £51. Patron, Sir R. Throckmorton, Bart. The church is ancient. There are a Roman Catholic chapel, a R.C. school, a widows’ charity £36, and other charities £49.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Buckinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Newport Pagnell
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
- Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Newport
- Poor Law Union: Newport Pagnell
- Hundred: Newport
- Province: Canterbury