Finmere, Oxfordshire Family History Guide
Finmere is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.
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Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1560
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1684
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Mixbury
- Water Stratford
- Westbury
- Chetwode with Barton Hartshorn
- Tingewick
- Newton Purcell with Shelswell
- Shalstone
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FINMERE, a parish in the district of Brackley and county of Oxford; on the river Ouse, and on the Tring and Banbury railway, contiguous to Bucks, 4½ miles SE of Brackley. Post town, Mixbury, under Brackley. Acres, 1, 542. Real property, £2, 180. Pop., 338. Houses, 81. The property is divided among a few. Finmere House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £345. Patron, William Ashwell, Esq. The church is very good; and there are charities £14.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Oxfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Brackley
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and the Archdeaconry of Oxford
- Diocese: Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Bicester
- Poor Law Union: Brackley
- Hundred: Ploughley
- Province: Canterbury