Hamstead Marshall
family history sources
• glebe terriers
• parish school accounts 1897 - 1928
• civil parish records 1894 - 1955
• several eighteenth-century surveys
of the Craven estate
• Enclosure Act (1810), map and
award (1815)
• Berks archdeaconry records
• 1801 census record
• tithe map and schedule 1840/41
• WI scrapbook 1965
and many other useful sources.
• a handwritten, indexed
transcription of monumental
inscriptions in St
Mary’s churchyard made in 1930
• Hamstead Marshall census returns
1841/51/61/71/81/91 on
microfiche/film
• Craven Country (original 1996 edition)
• Newbury Weekly News from 1867 on microfilm
(but no index)
• local trade directories of 1900
onwards
• free access to ancestry.com (library
edition)
*NB: Hamstead
Marshall’s parish registers are very patchy from 1612-75,
with no coverage of the Commonwealth period.
has a village file on Hamstead Marshall
is a book-length village history
containing numerous references to local families. Surnames and
addresses can be searched within the pdf.
Copyright Penelope Stokes
2 December 2009
holds diocesan records (including some
parish register copies) for Hamstead Marshall up to 1836, at
which time the archdeaconry of Berkshire (containing Hamstead
Marshall) transferred from the diocese of Salisbury to the
diocese of Oxford.
The society’s Research Centre in
Reading holds an extraordinarily wide range of digital and
printed family history resources for Berkshire and beyond.
Membership of the society is a must for
anyone researching family history in this area.
Amongst the society’s own
publications, available from the website, the Berkshire Burial Index (on CD) covers
Hamstead Marshall St Mary’s 1605*-75 (BTs), 1675 - 1812
and 1813 - 1836.
holds post-1836 diocesan records.
St Mary’s Church