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Oxfordshire Family History

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This group is for everyone interested in Oxfordshire genealogy.

Location: Oxfordshire, England
Members: 48
Latest Activity: Nov 10, 2017

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Oxfordshire Family History Society

Add your interests to OXSIL - the Oxfordshire Surname Interest List

Oxfordshire FHS Wills Library - look for matches and please offer you own !

All but two Victoria County History Oxfordshire volumes are now available online at British History Online.

Genealogy Wise England

Oxfordshire groups:
HEWLETTs of Kencot
HATLEYs of Shutford
SHEPHERDs of Wheatley
TRAFFORDs of Oxfordshire

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Radio Oxford family history broadcast

Started by Wendy Archer Aug 28, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

On Friday the National Archives released new files from the Security Servicespanning the Second World War and post-war eras…Continue

Cowley - in a different light

Started by Wendy Archer Mar 24, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Family & local history - presented in a different way .... !This evening, Friday 25 March, & also in the evening of Saturday 26 March,there will be projections onto a wall of a large block of…Continue

Saving Oxfordshire History

Started by Wendy Archer. Last reply by Wendy Archer Feb 13, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes

As mentioned in a previous discussion, Oxfordshire Studies andOxfordshire Record Office are to merge later this year in modified premisesat St Luke's Church, Cowley. There are proposed staff cuts…Continue

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Comment by Wendy Archer on August 15, 2009 at 3:57am: David -

OXSIL is a site which collects surname interests - do add yours.

I looked in the Oxfordshire FHS's DVD of the Quarter Sessions records -- there are of course a lot of EDWARDS references, but they include William in Ducklington in 1745. The case involved the assault of William EDWARDS, constable in Ducklington, by members of the GREEN family.

Comment by Linda and Tony Knight on August 8, 2009 at 2:26pm: We have a strong interest in the canal - our KNIGHT's sailed from Banbury ending up in Brummagem - any other canal lovers?

Comment by Christine Gibbins on August 6, 2009 at 1:42am: The BBC website for Oxford has a History page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/history/

Comment by Joy Mason Dunford on August 5, 2009 at 10:00am: I am interested in the Axletree factory at Deddington, if anyone could tell me when it originated etc., and of the MASON family working there.
Joy

Comment by Wendy Archer on August 5, 2009 at 6:53am: I've linked to some more OXF-specific groups - so now we have:
HEWLETTs of Kencot
HATLEYs of Shutford
SHEPHERDs of Wheatley
TRAFFORDs of Oxfordshire

Wendy

Comment by Wendy Archer on August 5, 2009 at 5:23am: Surnames submitted to OXSIL in July 2009 have now been added.

There is a new additions file on the homepage. Pleased to see some entries from members of this group!

Wendy

Comment by John Alan Jeffries on July 25, 2009 at 8:08am: Hi Wendy,
My main interest is in the village of Kingston Bagpuize, where 11 of my ancestors spent all or part of their lives from about 1700 to about 1880, along with other family members, two of whom ran the post office, and the last of whom died about 1915. As you know I have already joined Jill Muir's KB group.
Best wishes, Al

Comment by Leonard Charles Denham on July 25, 2009 at 12:22am: Curiously my grandmother's father was a WHEELER from Nettlebed whilst my grandfather's mother was a WHEELER from Deddington. I have established no connection between the two families however. Does anybody know better than me?

Comment by John Taplin on July 24, 2009 at 5:51pm: Hi I am a descendant of the TAPLIN's from Enstone OXF.

Comment by Wendy Archer on July 21, 2009 at 1:23am: I've put a link to the online Victoria County History volumes for Oxfordshire - a rich source of well referenced and in-depth articles about Oxfordshire places & their people.