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- [S448] UK Oxfordshire Parish Registers - Witney (CD), Oxfordshire Family History Society, (Oxfordshire Family History Society
1994-2003
http://www.ofhs.org.uk/index.html
Oxfordshire Family History Society; c/o Miss Angela E. Wood
40 Kersington Cresent
Cowley
Oxford, OX4 3RJ
United Kingdom
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Email: AngeWd1@aol.com), Hailey Baptisms, Period from Jul 1837 to 1954 from Hailey PRs only. bb = baseborn, pg. 36 (Reliability: 3), 22 Aug 2006.
1844 21 Jul HARRIS Selina Frances d. Job & Elizabeth, Hailey, Publican
The following is the original Introduction (by J Neville Wood) to his 1979 transcript of the
Hailey Registers.
HAILEY (WITNEY)
(OXFORDSHIRE)
PARISH REGISTERS
(INCLUDING CRAWLEY)
Judging from the high number of deaths in the Witney Workhouse (and later at
"Hensington House", Woodstock), the poverty of the hamlets must have been
abnormal.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Baptisms 1797 to 1900 (Crawley to 1954)
Burials 1797 to 1932
Index Locorum
Index Nominum
DISTRIBUTION
Copy no. 1 Diocesan Archives c/o Bodleian Library, Oxford
2 Society of Genealogists, 37 Harrington Gdns, London SW7 4JX
3 P.C.C. Hailey
4 County Archivist, County Hall, Oxford
5 Central Library, Westgate, Oxford
Transcribed and typed by J Neville Wood Esq for the Oxfordshire Family History
Society, who record their thanks to the Vicar, Rev. T.G.O. Jenkins, for making the
registers available. The originals are now deposited with the Diocesan Archives.
Abingdon 31 Dec 1979
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These are the notes written by J Neville Wood for his 1979 transcription.
HAILEY (OXFORDSHIRE) NOTES
Hailey was part of the parish of Witney until its present church was
consecrated in 1861.
A chapel was built there in 1760 with a burial ground, the remains of which
lie between the present Vicarage and the road. The chapel was not licensed
for marriages.
From 1760 to 1812 all baptisms and burials were entered annually en bloc in
the Witney Parish Register, and when these registers were transcribed in
1973 the only Hailey record was a rough notebook kept by the Curate, the
Revd. John Hyde. Since then, the original Hailey registers have come to
light.
In 1847 a chapel was built at Crawley, with its own burial ground and
registers. Occasional entries relating to persons who lived in Hailey were
entered in the Crawley registers and vice versa, and from 1873 the Crawley
burial register was also used for Hailey. In this transcript the entire set have
been amalgamated into a single record, with the letter H or C indicating the
place of abode.
HAILEY PARISH REGISTERS
Vol 1 A plain book with baptisms and burials starting at opposite ends.
These are original
records from 1797 to 1812 inclusive; thereafter, the clerk's "rough
book".
Vol 2 Baptisms 1813-1843
Vol 3 Hailey Baptisms 1843-1900 } amalgamated
Vol 4 Crawley Baptisms 1847-1954 }
Vol 5 Hailey Burials 1813-1873 } amalgamated
Vol 6 Crawley Burials 1847-1873 }
-ditto- Hailey and Crawley Burials 1873-1932
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CONCATENATION & RETRANSCRIPTION, 2002
When these registers were retranscribed in 2002 as part of the Oxfordshire
Baptisms project, the opportunity was taken to bring together the two sets of
entries which refer first to Hailey Chapel and later to its Church.
As was briefly stated by Mr Wood in the notes to his 1979 transcription, from 1761
until 1837 the Hailey registers were annually copied en bloc into the Witney
registers.
The Hailey records therefore fall into three sections:
1. 1761-1799: Witney version only is available, the Hailey register being lost.
2. 1797-1837: Both versions are available.
3. 1837-1954: Hailey version only, the Witney copy having been discontinued.
The Witney copy was transcribed by Brigadier Goadby in 1973 as part of his
Witney transcription, the Hailey registers by Mr Wood in 1979.
Section 2 requires some explanation.
It is probable that the Hailey clerk made his initial records in a rough book, which
was then copied separately into the main Hailey registers and the Witney registers.
There seems no other way to explain the fact that some scattered records appear
either in the Hailey version or in the Witney version, but not both. These records
are flagged as [H only] or [W only].
Apart from that, there are very many discrepancies between the two versions.
Most are simple spelling differences, but since it seems likely that Mr Wood
standardised many spellings in his 1979 transcription there is little point in noting
them individually.
Others are minor forename differences, eg Mary/Mary Ann, and differences in
occupation or place. The Hailey version is usually taken as standard, and these
differences are flagged as [W=] and occasionally [H=], thus:
Mary Ann [W=Mary] d John, farmer [W=lab]
Finally there are some serious differences in names, especially in surnames, and
here both records are included -- always in pairs as with aliases -- and are flagged
as [H] or [W].
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