Family:John Oxlade and Fraunces Maundy (1)

Research on the Oxlade family

This is the earliest family in a study of Oxlades contributed by [[User:julescooke06]]. It has a strong resemblance to a family tree found on Ancestry.com under the name "Our Family Tree". The Ancestry tree has been used to add death dates which were originally omitted. Referenced sources, where they exist, have been added.

This family and the next two or three generations lived in the Chiltern Hills in the southwestern part of Buckinghamshire, England. The details of baptisms, marriages and burials would have been found in the Buckinghamshire Record Office in Aylesbury, or through communication with either or both the Bucks Family History Society (https://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/) or the Buckinghamshire Genealogicial Society (http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/). Both organizations operate search services and the Bucks Family History Society publishes parish registers for individual parishes, but neither has transferred all their holdings to larger online services.

A number of Oxlade families from later generations migrated into what is now Greater London which has made its archives (including images of original parish registers) available to FamilySearch and to commercial family history websites. These are now being inspected by another user who is attempting to add clearer details than were provided originally.

After the start of civil registration in 1837 births, marriages and deaths thoughout England and Wales had to be registered in offices of local "registration districts". Each registration district covered a number of parishes so the location of a family could be quite generalized, particularly in more rural areas. Indexes to birth, marriage and death entries are available online at FreeBMD (https://www.freebmd.org.uk/), FamilySearch, or on commercial family history websites. Full registration certificates, which include more information (i.e., the specific date and parish for the event, names of other family members) must be applied for to the General Record Office (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/#FamilyHistory1) who now have a special PDF service for historical certificates (birth entries from 1837 -1918 and death entries from 1837 -1957). Later certificates cost £11 each, but the historical certificates are at a reduced rate or free. The website is not clear on this point, but there was a change in spring, 2019.

Decennial censuses, also organized on a nationwide basis, commenced in 1841. The censuses provided more localized information than the bmd registers. Images of censuses are available on FamilySearch and on commercial family history websites.

1. ↑ John Oxlade and Frances Marriage, in Ancestry.com. Buckinghamshire, England, extracted parish records [database]. (Online: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2001).

   Marriage Date: 1 Nov 1627
   Marriage Place: Fingest, Buckinghamshire, England
   Name: John Oxlad [John Oxlade]; Gender: Male
   Spouse: Frannces

   Ancestry.com. Buckinghamshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1535-1812 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2018. No image available.

2. ↑ England. Marriages, 1538-1973. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast)
   FHL Film Number: 496694.

   Marriage Date: 1 Nov 1627
   Marriage Place: Fingest,Buckingham,England
   Name: John Oxlad; Gender: Male
   Spouse: Frannces Munday

   Ancestry.com. England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. No image available.