Goring, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

Goring is an Ancient Parish in the county of Oxfordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Goring Heath.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Goring

  • Parish registers: 1643
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1639; 1682-1684; 1722

Goring Heath

  • Parish registers: 1742
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Countess of Huntingdon Methodist and Particular Baptist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

GORING, a village and a parish in the district of Bradfield and county of Oxford. The village stands at the verge of the county, on the river Thames and the Great Western railway, near Icknield-street, 6 miles S of Wallingford; is connected, by a bridge, with Streatley, in Berks; presents a picturesque appearance; has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office, under Reading; and was formerly called Little Nottingham. The parish comprises 4, 377 acres. Real property, £5, 362. Pop., 947. Houses, 222. Roman coins, vases, pavements, and substructions have been found. A mineral spring here was formerly in high repute for cutaneous diseases. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £146. Patron, S. W. Gardiner, Esq. The church is very curious, and partly Norman; and has an embattled tower, with a conical topped round turret. An Augustinian nunnery once stood adjacent to the church; was founded in the time of Henry II.; and was given to Sir T. Pope, the founder of Trinity College, Oxford. There are a Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, Lybbe’s alms-houses with £62, Allnutt’s charity for various purposes with £1, 082, and other charities with £20.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, Goring – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Goring, St. Thomas à Becket, monumental inscriptions in the church and churchyard
Author: Kearsey, Hugh A.; Oxfordshire Family History Society

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

England, Oxfordshire, Goring – Church records ( 5 )
Births and baptisms, 1790-1834
Author: Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel (Goring, Oxfordshire)

Goring Heath (Oxon) registers
Author: Harris, Colin G.; Cotterell, Mavis A.; Society of Genealogists (London); Church of England. St. Bartholomew’s Church (Goring-Heath, Oxfordshire)

Goring, St. Thomas a Becket, Oxon, parish registers, 1639, 1673-1982
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Goring (Oxfordshire); Harris, Colin G.; Crook, Mark F.

The non-parochial registers of South Oxfordshire and Oxford : deposited at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London
Author: Young, Brian R.; Oxfordshire Family History Society

Oxfordshire parish register transcripts : South Oxon Registration District
Author: Oxfordshire Family History Society

England, Oxfordshire, Goring – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Goring, Lady Huntingdons, Oxon., Eng

Parish register printouts of Goring, Oxford, England (Lady Huntingdons) ; christenings, 1790-1834
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Oxfordshire, Goring – Land and property ( 2 )
A collection of charters relating to Goring, Streatley and the neighborhood, 1181-1546, preserved in the Bodleian Library, with a supplement
Author: Gambier-Parry, Thomas Robert

A collection of charters relating to Goring, Streatley and the neighborhood, 1181-1546, preserved in the Bodleian Library, with a supplement
Author: Gambier-Parry, Thomas Robert

England, Oxfordshire, Goring – Manors ( 1 )
Copies of Goring manor rolls beginning 1519
Author: Cope, Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, b. 1860

England, Oxfordshire, Goring – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Court rolls for the manor of Elvendon, 1377-1839
Author: Manor of Elvendon. Court (Goring, Oxfordshire)

Court rolls for the manor of Goring, 1400-1724
Author: Manor of Goring. Court (Oxfordshire)

Maps

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

Administration

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