Kingsey, Oxfordshire
Historical Description
Kingsey, a village and a parish in the union and county court district of Thame, till recently partly in Bucks and partly in Oxfordshire, but by the Local Government Act of 1894 placed wholly in the latter county. The village stands 2 miles ENE of Thame station on the G.W.R. Post town and telegraph office, Thame; money order office, Hadden-ham. The parish contains also the liberty of Tythrop, and comprises 1431 acres; population, 190. The manor and most of the parish, belong to the Wykeham family. Tythrop House is a fine mansion standing in a well-timbered park of about 120 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The church is a beautiful new Gothic building of stone, and dedicated by the Bishop of Oxford in 1893.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Oxfordshire online.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online
Maps
Online maps of Kingsey are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Oxfordshire newspapers online:
- Oxford Journal
- Banbury Advertiser
- Banbury Guardian
- Oxford University and City Herald
- Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
- Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
- Oxford Times
- Banbury Beacon
- Ossett Observer
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.