Alvescot, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Alvescot is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.

Alternative names:

  • Allscot
  • Allscott
  • Alvescott

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1662
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721

Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Society of Friends/Quaker.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ALVESCOTT, a parish in Witney district, Oxford; near the Cheltenham and Faringdon railway, 3½ miles WNW of Bampton. Post town, Bampton, under Faringdon. Acres, 2,690. Real property, £2,961. Pop., 407. Houses, 85. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £371. Patron, Rev. A. Neate. The church is cruciform, in early English, with plain Norman tower. There are a Baptist chapel, a free school, and charities £22.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Alvescott – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Alvescott, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Oxfordshire, Alvescott – Church records ( 2 )
Alvescott, Oxfordshire : christenings, 1660-1950, marriages, 1663-1950, burials, 1663-1950
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alvescott (Oxfordshire); Chaston, N.; Oxfordshire Family History Society

Bishop’s transcripts for Alvescott, 1721-1851
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Alvescott (Oxfordshire)

England, Oxfordshire, Alvescott – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Alvescot, Oxford, England

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Oxfordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Witney
  • Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
  • Diocese: Oxford
  • Rural Deanery: Witney
  • Poor Law Union: Witney
  • Hundred: Bampton (Oxfordshire)
  • Province: Canterbury