Easthampstead, Berkshire Genealogy

Guide to Easthampstead, Berkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
EASTHAMPSTEAD (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, and the head of a union, partly in the hundred of Cookham, but chiefly in that of Ripplesmere, county of Berks; comprising the posting-village of Bracknell.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Non-Conformist Churches

 * Primitive Methodist
 * Society of Friends/Quaker

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
Easthampstead in GENUKI