Wingrave, Buckinghamshire Family History

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Wingrave is an Ancient Parish in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1550

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINGRAVE, a parish, with W. village and Rowsham hamlet, in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 2 miles NNW of Marston-Gate r. station, and 5½ NE of Aylesbury. It has a post-office under Aylesbury. Acres, 2,600. Real property, £4,145. Pop., 863. Houses, 173. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £120. Patron, Earl Brownlow. The church is early and later English. There are two dissenting chapels, a national school, and charities £30.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Wingrave with Rowsham, 3 miles N.E. Aylesbury. P. 814

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Buckinghamshire, Wingrave – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wingrave with Rowsham, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Buckinghamshire, Wingrave – Church records ( 3 )
Baptisms and burials, 1826-1836
Author: Independent Church (Wingrave, England)

Bishop’s transcripts for Wingrave, 1575-1842
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wingrave (Buckinghamshire)

Parish registers for Wingrave, 1550-1965
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wingrave (Buckinghamshire)

England, Buckinghamshire, Wingrave – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Wingrave, Independent, Bucks., Eng

Parish register printouts of Wingrave, Buckingham, England (Independent Church) ; christenings, 1817-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

  • County: Buckinghamshire
  • Civil Registration District: Aylesbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham
  • Diocese: Post-1844 – Oxford, Pre-1845 – Lincoln
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, Post-1844 – Mursley
  • Poor Law Union: Aylesbury
  • Hundred: Cottesloe
  • Province: Canterbury