Family:William Oxlade and Phoebe Rance (1)

The Berkshire and Buckinghamshire places noted for this Oxlade family are all very close to the River Thames, a river that on a map, throughout its length, can look very much like a slack rope. For the family the place most upriver is Marlow in Buckingshamshire (or Bucks). Going down the river from there we find the parishes of Wooburn (with other settlements of Bourne End and Wooburn Green) on the Buckinghamshire side and Cookham in Berkshire (or Berks), immediately across the river from Bourne End. Hitcham is a village and parish a mile or two north of the river on the way to what is now the large town of Slough. In 1850 Slough was just beginning to exist as the railway was built. The original settlement was the hamlet of Upton cum Chalvey, about a half mile southeast of Slough railway station and closer to the Thames which flows between between Eton and Windsor. In 1974 the county boundary between Bucks and Berks was altered and now Slough and Hitcham are in Berkshire. Marlow and Wooburn remain in Buckinghamshire.

1. ↑ England. Marriages, 1538-1973. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast)
   FHL Film Number: 1967107, Reference ID: 18321 pg 43.

   Marriage Date: 29 aug 1823
   Marriage Place: Wooburn, Buckingham, England
   Groom: William Oxlade, single
   Bride: Phebe Rance, single

   taken from Ancestry.com. England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 from England, Marriages, 1538–1973. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.