Archives and Libraries

• Amersham Museum
• Bletchley Park Trust
• Buckinghamshire County  Library Service
• Buckinghamshire County  Museum
• Centre for Buckinghamshire  Studies (Buckinghamshire Record Office and Local Studies service) are the  major repositories for source material of interest to family historians in  Buckinghamshire.
• Buckinghamshire Museums on the  Web
• Cowper & Newton Museum,  Olney
• High Wycombe  Reference and Business Library - holds copies of the Parish Registers and  census for the south of Buckinghamshire, IGI, as well as the GRO indexes etc.  (see the web site for more details)
• Milton Keynes Local Studies and  Family History Library - hold copies of the Parish Registers and census for  Buckinghamshire on microfim as well as GRO indexes and books on Buckinghamshire  local history etc.
• Milton Keynes Museum
• Newport Pagnell Police  Museum
• The Living Archive, Wolverton
• Wycombe Museum

Cemeteries

• Information about, and an online index to 'The Monumental Brasses  of Buckinghamshire' is available on the web site of 'The Monumental Brass Society'.

Census

In the earliest government census of 1801, there were 107,444 inhabitants  recorded in Buckinghamshire of whom 52,094 were males and 55,350 females. Of  this total 25,083 were employed in agriculture and 20,138 in trade, manufactures  and handicrafts.

Census Year Population of Buckinghamshire 1801* 107,444 1811* 117,864 1821* 134,552 1831* 146,977 1841 156,439 1851 163,723 1861 167,993 1871 175,926 1881 176,323 1891 185,458 1901** 195,905

* = No names were recorded in census documents from 1801 to 1831.
** =  Census documents from 1901 to 1991 are only available in summary form. Names are  witheld under the 100 year rule.

Microfilm copies of all census enumerators' notebooks for 1841 to 1891 are  held at the Local Studies Libraries at Aylesbury and Milton Keynes, as well as  centrally at the PRO. A table of 19th century census headcount by parish is  printed in the VCH of Bucks, Vol.2, pp 96-101.

Availability of census transcripts and indexes for the entire  County.

1851 - Full transcripts and indexes in both hard copy and on  microfiche are avialable for all Buckinghamshire parishes from the Buckinghamshire Family History Society.

1881

Available on CD-ROM from the Church of the Latter Day Saints, as part of the  National 1881 Census Index.

1891 - Available on CD-ROM with advanced search and mapping  capabilities etc. from the Buckinghamshire Genealogical  Society.

See also, individual parish pages for further census details.

Church History

• Photographs of  churches in Buckinghamshire.
• The Quaker FHS have a series  of pages on locating Quaker Records in various parts of the UK. There are  separate pages for most of the pre-1974 English counties, including  Buckinghamshire.

Church Records

• Ted Wildy's UK Marriage witness  index entries for Buckinghamshire[ ftp ].

Civil Registration

• Register Offices

Certificates of birth, death and marriage can be obtained from the  Superintendent Registrars at the following District Register Offices:

Aylesbury  Vale

Chiltern  and South Bucks

Milton  Keynes

Slough

Wycombe

If ordering from a District Office, please note the following: (a) the cost  of a certificate is currently (April 1998) £6.50 - send a Sterling cheque  payable to the Superintendent Registrar plus return postage or two  International Reply Coupons; (b) the St Catherine's Index references are of no  value; (c) for marriage certificates, the precise place of marriage must be  given; (d) Civil Registration in England and Wales began on July 1st 1837.

Buckinghamshire  Registration Service have the own web pages.

• Registration Districts

The composition of the Civil Registration Districts in  Buckinghamshire between 1st July 1837 and 31st March 1930

Directories

• Sue O'Neill's -Index  to Pigot's Trade Directory, 1830

Genealogy

• A link to a Mailing List provided by John Fuller covering Buckinghamshire  can be found at:
  http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/MailingLists.html#BKM.
• A Surname List for Buckinghamshire, compiled by Dave Carlsen:
  http://www.csranet.com/~dcarlsen/genuki/BKM/bucksurname.html

Land and Property

There are a number of historic houses in Buckinghamshire which are open for  the public to visit. The following web pages have details of the properties and  their opening times etc.

Ascott House, near Wing

Bletchley Park

National Trust - own a number  of Buckinghamshire properties

Stowe House

Waddesdon House

Maps

• A Parish map of  Buckinghamshire (Buckinghamshire Genealogical Society Page)
• Links to a selection of old maps of Buckinghamshire can be found on the Genmaps  website
• Ordnance Survey maps of Buckinghamshire from between 1846 and 1899, at the  scale of 1:10,560, can be viewed on the Landmark Information Group Free Historic Maps website

Military History

• Oxfordshire and  Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (O.B.L.I.) - T.F. Mills website on "Land  Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth", has this excellent section on  the O.B.L.I.

Newspapers

• Local Newpapers for  Buckinghamshire on the Buckinghamshire Record and Local Studies website,  lists both alphabetically, and by area, local newspapers, with details of dates  and of locations of holdings in Buckinghamshire and surrounding counties.
• Index to the Leighton Buzzard  Observer:- Barbara Quick is currently indexing the Leighton Buzzard  Observer, starting with the first paper of 1861. The coverage of this paper  includes quite a large area around Leighton Buzzard and therefore includes towns  and villages in both Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Jan Brettle's "The  Workhouse Homepage" encompassing Workhouses, Hospitals and Asylums in  Buckinghamshire with associated Boards and Reports, Poor Law Unions and Board of  Guardians.
• Peter Higginbotham's "History of the  Workhouse" website, contains a wealth of information on workhouses,  including; Poor Law Unions, Union Maps, Timelines, Literature, Photos of  workhouses and much more.

Societies

The following is a list of societies relating to Buckinghamshire local or  family history, and which have an interest in the entire county. Socieities and  groups which are for a specific location can be found under the relevant parish  web pages.

• Archaeological Societies
• Buckinghamshire  Archaeological Society
• North Bucks Archaeological Society

• Family History/Genealogical Societies
• Buckinghamshire FHS
• Buckinghamshire  Genealogical Society

• Local History Societies
• Buckinghamshire Records Society -contact via the Bucks Record Office

• Miscellaneous (related to local and family history)
• Buckingham Canal Society
• John Hampden Society

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Voting Registers

• Sue O'Neill's - Index  of the Poll for Knights of the Shire for the County of Bucks, 1784

Towns and Parishes

NOTE NOT LINKED

A

Addington Adstock Akeley Amersham Ashendon Aston Abbotts Aston Clinton Aston Sandford Astwood Aylesbury

B

Barton Hartshorn Beachampton Beaconsfield Biddlesden Bierton Bledlow Bledlow Ridge Bletchley Boarstall Bow Brickhill Bradenham Bradwell Bradwell Abbey Brill Broughton Buckingham Buckland Burnham

C

Cadmore End Calverton Castlethorpe Chalfont St Giles Chalfont St Peter Chearsley Cheddington Chenies Chesham Chesham Bois Chetwode Chicheley Chilton Cholesbury Clifton Reynes Cold Brayfield Colnbrook Creslow Cublington Cuddington

D

Dagnell Datchet Denham Dinton Dorney Dorton Drayton Beauchamp Drayton Parslow Dunton

E

East Claydon Edgcott Edlesborough Ellesborough Emberton Eton

F

Farnham Royal Fawley Fenny Stratford Fingest Fleet Marston Foscott Fulmer

G

Gawcott Gayhurst Granborough Great Brickhill Great Hampden Great Horwood Great Kimble Great Linford Great Marlow Great Missenden Great Woolstone Grendon Underwood Grove

H

Haddenham Halton Hambleden Hanslope Hardmead Hardwick Hartwell Haversham Hawridge Hedgerley Hedsor High Wycombe Hillesden Hitcham Hoggeston Hogshaw Horsenden Horton Hughenden Hulcott

Go back to the Alphabetical Index

I

Ibstone Ickford Ilmer Iver Iver Heath Ivinghoe

K

Kingsey

L

Lacey Green Lane End Langley Marish Lathbury Latimer Lavendon Leckhampstead Lee Lillingstone Dayrell Linslade Little Brickhill Little Hampden Little Horwood Little Kimble Little Linford Little Marlow Little Missenden Little Woolstone Long Crendon Loughton Lower Winchendon Ludgershall Luffield Abbey

M

Maids Moreton Marsh Gibbon Marsworth Medmenham Mentmore Middle Claydon Milton Keynes Monks Risborough Moulsoe Mursley

N

Nettleden New Bradwell Newport Pagnell Newton Blossomville Newton Longville North Crawley North Marston

O

Oakley Old Bradwell Oln ey Ovi ng

P

Padbury Penn Penn Street Petsoe Pitchcott Pitstone Preston Bissett Princes Risborough

Q

Quainton Quarrendon

R

Radclive Radnage Ravenstone

S

St Leonard Saunderton Shabbington Shalstone Shenley Sherington Simpson Slapton Slough (see also Upton-cum-Chalvey) Soulbury Stantonbury Steeple Claydon Stewkley Stoke Goldington Stoke Hammond Stoke Mandeville Stoke Poges Stone Stony Stratford Stowe Swanbourne

T

Taplow Tattenhoe Thornborough Thornton Tingewick Towersey Turville Turweston Twyford Tyringham

U

Upper Winchendon Upton-cum-Chalvey (see also Slough)

W

Waddesdon Walton (in Aylesbury) Walton (near Milton Keynes) Water Stratford Wavendon Wendover West Wycombe Westbury Weston Turville Weston Underwood Wexham Whaddon Whitchurch Willen Wing Wingrave Winslow Wolverton Wooburn Worminghall Wotton Underwood Woughton on the Green Wraysbury

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