Cropredy, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Cropredy is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire. Bourton is a chapelry of Cropredy.

Other places in the parish include: Willscot, Williamscote, Williamscot, and Coton.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St Mary the Virgin

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1538
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605-1617; 1660

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Shottswell, Warwickshire
• Banbury
• Bourton
• Prescote
• Clattercot
• Wardington
• Chalcombe, Northamptonshire
• Claydon with Mollington

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CROPREDY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Banbury district, Oxford. The village adjoins the Cherwell river, the Oxford canal, and the Oxford and Rugby railway, near the boundaries with Warwick and Northampton, 4 miles N of Banbury; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Banbury. Pop., 497. Houses, 129.

The parish includes also the hamlet of Great and Little Bourton, and the chapelries of Claydon, Wardington, and Mollington; part of the last of which is electorally in Warwick. Acres, 7, 776. Real property, £17, 379. Pop., 2, 478. Houses, 599. The property is much subdivided. A battle was fought here, in 1644, between the royalists and the parliamentarians, when the latter were defeated.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £264. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford. The church is later English, with a tower; and has monuments of the Danbys and the Gostelows.

The vicarages of Claydon, Wardington, and Mollington are separate benefices.

There is a dissenting chapel. Two schools have £38 from endowment; and other charities, £68.

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

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

Details	Place of Marriage
William Hitchcox, of F. C, b., & Hannah Tims, p. Cropredy, co. Warwick, s. 24 May 1808	Fenny Compton

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Cropredy – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Cropredy cemetery
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

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

England, Oxfordshire, Cropredy – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Banbury, 1606-1851
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Banbury (Oxfordshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Cropredy, 1664-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cropredy (Oxfordshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1565-1837
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Mollington (Oxfordshire); Harker, LaVerne

Register book of baptisms for Wroxford and Great Bourton Independent chapels, 1823-1837
Author: Independent Chapel (Wroxton, Oxfordshire); Independent Chapel (Great Bourton, Oxfordshire)

England, Oxfordshire, Cropredy – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Claydon, Oxon., Eng

England, Oxfordshire, Cropredy – Probate records ( 2 )
The Peculiar Court of Banbury and Cropredy
Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court (Banbury, Oxfordshire); Church of England. Peculiar Court (Cropredy, Oxford); EurekA Partnership

Probate records, 1547-1858
Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court (Banbury, Oxfordshire); Church of England. Peculiar Court (Bierton, Buckingham); Church of England. Peculiar Court (Thame, Oxfordshire); Church of England. Peculiar Court (Cropredy, Oxford)

Maps

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

Administration

• County: Oxfordshire
• Civil Registration District: Banbury
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Banbury, Court of the Peculiar of Aylesbury
• Diocese: Oxford
• Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 – None, Post-1845 – Deddington
• Poor Law Union: Banbury
• Hundred: Banbury; Bloxham
• Province: Canterbury