South Leigh, Oxfordshire Family History Guide

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1612
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

SOUTH LEIGH St. James The Great Church
SOUTH LEIGH St. James The Great Church

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LEIGH (SOUTH), a parish in Witney district, Oxford; on the Witney and Oxford railway, 2¾ miles E by S of Witney. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Witney. Acres, 2,074. Real property, £3,163. Pop., 319. Houses, 61. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Stanton-Harcourt, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is a small plain building, with a tower; and was the first in which John Wesley preached. Charities, £12.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Oxfordshire, South Leigh – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Memorial inscriptions : St. James the Great, South Leigh, Oxfordshire
Author: Curwood, Gill; Oxfordshire Family History Society

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

England, Oxfordshire, South Leigh – Schools ( 1 )
South Leigh St. James School records, 1899-1900
Author: South Leigh St. James School (Oxfordshire)

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: Wootton
  • Province: Canterbury