Kingsey Marriage.

[bucksboy]

I've just found a 1746 marriage in Kingsey, Oxfordshire  PR's, but nothing showed up in the Oxfordshire marriage index.

Any ideas folks.

I know Kingsey is now in Bucks, but at the time of marriage Kingsey was in Oxfordshire.  Or am I wrong.

Steve.

[Pennie]

Hi Steve ...

From the OFHS publication "Oxfordshire Parishes & Bishop's Transcripts" by Colin Harris:

KINGSEY, St. Nicholas
Part Lewknor Hundred, Oxon. (liberty of Tythrop)
Part Ashendon Hundred, Bucks.
Thame Poor Law Union
Situated in Oxon, 1896-1933, but now entirely in Bucks.

Perhaps the last line is the explanation as to why your marriage was excluded from the OMI?

Pennie

[bucksboy]

I'm being really thick in the head now.

Kingsey was shared before 1896.  Then after 1896, came under Oxfordshire.  Then in 1933 it came under Buckinghamshire.

So there are records for Kingsey, Oxfordshire, and Kingsey, Buckinghamshire for the same time period, up until 1896.

Sorry, but I really can't grasp this one.

Steve.

[Iffley]

Steve -

I've just found a 1746 marriage in Kingsey, Oxfordshire  PR's, but nothing showed up in the Oxfordshire marriage index.

Any ideas folks.

I know Kingsey is now in Bucks, but at the time of marriage Kingsey was in Oxfordshire.  Or am I wrong.

Steve.

Several decades ago in Oxfordshire Family History Society's history, the Oxfordshire marriage index was created, from the registers then at Oxfordshire Record Office.  So that did not include border parishes where the records were held elsewhere, but which at one time had been in Oxfordshire, like Kingsey.

Transcribing of the parish registers was an entirely separate process.  So yes, we have an anomaly.  To see what's in which index, look at http://searches.anomaly.org.uk/pardata.html

If you'd be willing to rekey the Kingsey marriages, we'll be pleased to add them to the OFHS marriage index.

Wendy
Chairman, Oxfordshire FHS
www.ofhs.org.uk
chairman (at) ofhs.org.uk

[bucksboy]

Hi Wendy,

Tried using the link for 'anomoly', and got confused with it.

So here's the Kingsey marriage details.

John Swanal to Elizabeth Gome.  3rd Feb. 1746.  Both of Aston Sandford(Bucks).  Banns.

Maybe it's just the Banns though, and they got married elsewhere.

And to add to that, a burial in Aston Sandford, of Sarah Swannil, wife of John 1st Sept 1745.   No other Swannall and variations in Aston Sanford.(Bucks PR's ).

I'm really confused now.

The marriage details are from OxFHS PR's for Kingsey, St.Nicholas.

Many thanks for the guidance.


Steve.