Berks FHS - Berkshire and its Family History Resources

Abbreviations primararily specific to Berkshire

Cemeteries - Maidenhead and Windsor Cemeteries

Churches (currently only very limited information is available)

History: There is a link to David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History on the web-links page. Also one to the Berkshire Local History Association web-site.

'About' Reading Library

Miscellaneous Data held by members of the society

Parishes including a map of Parishes

See also details of the Berkshire Marriage Index and the Berkshire Burial Index.
Also the list of Pre-Victorian Parishes of Berkshire and Parishes in the 1851 census.

See details of Parish Registers which have been transcribed and are available for purchase as well as those which are currently being transcribed.

The Berkshire GenUKI pages include more information on each Parish and Place taken from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868).

Parishes with Bells

Reading Parish Records - what's on the IGI etc

Places:

Place Names in Victorian County Histories (VCH)

Cumnor Local History Society site is at www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/cumnor/

Poor Law Records for Berkshire

Poor Law Union (PLU) records availability:
- for Cookham Union Workhouse and some obervations on this institution
- Newbury Poor Law Union

Prisons (includes an article on Pentonville) - Reading Gaol

Registrars of Births, Deaths and Marriage (present day)

Research Centre Library Additions

Photograph Resources

Vaccination Records

(First World) War Photo Name Index - An index of the names of people appearing in photographs in 'Berkshire and the War' compiled by Bill Boyall.

Windsor Area Q & A


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