parish registers location list

The parish registers for St Mary's Church date back to the sixteenth century, although the earliest years record only some wills. Christenings, marriages and burials begin in 1612, and there is a fairly complete run through to the present day. Some of these registers have been transcribed (with other parishes) onto CD by the Berkshire Family History Society, from whom they can be bought.

The burials register dates from the early seventeenth century, although interments have probably been made in St Mary's churchyard for much longer. The Rev Richard Jeans believed there to be a Saxon graveyard under the present one. Today, the oldest legible headstone reads 1666, and there are, of course many more graves than memorials. (A comparison between burial entries and monumental inscriptions for 1837 - 1901 suggests the former outnumber the latter by about 4 to 1.) The Craven Mausoleum in the churchyard was added in 1921 on the death of the fourth earl, and three of his relatives have been interred there since, the most recent being in 1974.

Christenings

1675 - 1915 Berkshire Record Office (micro)

1915 - incumbent

1612 - 1837 West Berks Library (typescript BTs + index)

Marriages

1612 - 1837 West Berks Library (typescript BTs + index)

1675 - 1970 Berkshire Record Office (micro)

1971 - incumbent

Banns

1754 – 1832 Berkshire Record Office (micro)

Burials

1612 - 1837 West Berks Library (typescript BTs+ index)

1675 – 1970 Berkshire Record Office (micro)

1813 – incumbent

Monumental inscriptions

Handwritten index compiled in 1929; lacks clear grave location info, but includes some inscriptions no longer easily legible. Copies are held at:

Reading Reference Library

West Berks Library

Berks FHS Library

incumbent

In 1836 the archdeaconry of Berkshire transferred from Salisbury diocese to that of Oxford, so some pre1836 diocesan records are to be found in Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.


			parish registers location list
	Hamstead Marshall


		The parish registers for St Mary's Church date back to the sixteenth century, although the earliest years record only some wills. Christenings, marriages and burials begin in 1612, and there is a fairly complete run through to the present day. Some of these registers have been transcribed (with other parishes) onto CD by the Berkshire Family History Society, from whom they can be bought. The burials register dates from the early seventeenth century, although interments have probably been made in St Mary's churchyard for much longer. The Rev Richard Jeans believed there to be a Saxon graveyard under the present one. Today, the oldest legible headstone reads 1666, and there are, of course many more graves than memorials. (A comparison between burial entries and monumental inscriptions for 1837 - 1901 suggests the former outnumber the latter by about 4 to 1.) The Craven Mausoleum in the churchyard was added in 1921 on the death of the fourth earl, and three of his relatives have been interred there since, the most recent being in 1974. Christenings 1675 - 1915 Berkshire Record Office (micro) 1915 - incumbent 1612 - 1837 West Berks Library (typescript BTs + index) Marriages 1612 - 1837 West Berks Library (typescript BTs + index) 1675 - 1970 Berkshire Record Office (micro) 1971 - incumbent Banns 1754 – 1832 Berkshire Record Office (micro) Burials 1612 - 1837 West Berks Library (typescript BTs+ index) 1675 – 1970 Berkshire Record Office (micro) 1813 – incumbent Monumental inscriptions Handwritten index compiled in 1929; lacks clear grave location info, but includes some inscriptions no longer easily legible. Copies are held at: Reading Reference Library West Berks Library Berks FHS Library incumbent In 1836 the archdeaconry of Berkshire transferred from Salisbury diocese to that of Oxford, so some pre1836 diocesan records are to be found in Wiltshire and Swindon Archives.

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