Coleshill, Berkshire Genealogy

England Berkshire  Berkshire Parishes  Coleshill

Parish History
COLESHILL (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Farringdon, partly in the hundred of Highworth,Cricklade, and Staple, N. division of Wilts, but chiefly in the hundred of Shrivenham, county of Berks, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Farringdon.

From: 'Cold-Ashby - Coley', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 659-663. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50889  Date accessed: 26 August 2013.

COLESHlLL, a village in Faringdon district, Berkshire; and a parish partly also in Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Cole, at the boundary between Berkshire and Wiltshire, 3¾ miles WSW of Faringdon railway station.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Berkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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