Oxenton, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Oxenton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish registers begin: 1678

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Adjacent Parishes

Oxenton Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Oxenton, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1578-1812

Oxenton, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1913

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Oxenton, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1755-1938

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Oxenton, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1979

Oxenton Strays

Bevil Blizzard, of Oxington, Gloucestershire, & Elizabeth Ainge, of S. L., lic 11 Oct. 1778 married at South Littleton, Worcestershire

John Skinner & Joane […] of Oxenton, 30 Sept. 1729 married at Alstone

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OXENTON, a parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucester; on an affluent of the river Severn, adjacent to the boundary with Worcestershire, 2½ miles SE of Ashchurch r. station, and 4½ E by S of Tewkesbury. Post-town, Cheltenham. Acres, 1,050. Real property, £1,545. Pop., 136. Houses, 98. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ellenborough. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £86. Patron, the Earl of Coventry. The church is old, was recently repaired, and has a tower. A church school, a neat building, was erected in 1862.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Gloucestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Tewkesbury
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
  • Rural Deanery: Winchcombe
  • Poor Law Union: Tewkesbury
  • Hundred: Tewkesbury
  • Province: Canterbury