Black Bourton, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

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Black Bourton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.

Alternative names: Blackbourton, Burton Abbots

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1542
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1678

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BLACKBOURTON, a parish in Witney district, Oxford; 6 miles SW of Witney r. station. It has a post-office under Faringdon. Acres, 1,300. Real property, £2,978. Pop., 200. Houses, 61. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £148. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is early English; and contains a stone pulpit and monuments of the Hungerfords and Sir A. Hopton. Maria Edgeworth was a native.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BOURTON, BLACK (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Witney, hundred of Bampton, county of Oxford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Witney; containing 331 inhabitants, and comprising about 2250 acres. The living is a discharged vicarage; net income, £151; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Canons of Christ-Church, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for £95. The church is in the early English style: in the chancel are the remains of Sir Arthur Hopton, ambassador to the court of Spain in the reign of Charles I., and at the east end of the north aisle are several monuments to the Hungerford family; the pulpit is of stone, exquisitely sculptured in the decorated English style.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Oxfordshire, Blackbourton – Church records ( 1 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Blackbourton, 1678-1853
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Blackbourton (Oxfordshire)

England, Oxfordshire, Blackbourton – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Blackbourton, Oxford, England

Parish register printouts of Blackbourton, Oxford, England ; christenings, 1678-1819
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Blackbourton, Oxford, England ; marriages, 1678, 1679, 1721-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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