Iffley People

Introduction
The following is a list of surnames from Iffley records, listed with the date or period in which they first appear.

The first lists are from the parish registers of St Mary the Virgin, Iffley, from their beginning (as a preserved record) in 1572 up to and including 1874.

We start with the burial register because it is a good record of the permanent community; the parish church offered the only place to bury the local dead until the growth of free-church burial grounds (none near Iffley until the 1830s) and the Victorian municipal cemeteries and crematoria. We have then checked the marriage registers for additional names, using those given as "of this parish" and where there is doubt giving them the benefit.

After 1850 parish registers are inadequate as a record of population. Secular records become increasingly useful. We have therefore used directories, electoral rolls, census returns and other references from 1853 until 1901. From these we have taken the names of heads of household (the lists will not include resident indoor servants, even if they stayed with one household for twenty years and became part of the local scene). Again, the names given are additional; we don't repeat any already included in the parish lists. (See link below for Iffley People Continued for 1830 onwards.)

There are two points to note when searching.
First, St Mary the Virgin Iffley was not restricted to serving Iffley alone until the 1880s. Odd survivals of medieval parish structure gave it a second community to serve in Littlemore until 1836, and another in Cowley until 1885. The detached Cowley district was called Hockmore Street; its people sometimes used the churchway to Iffley and sometimes used their neighbouring church of St James. Littlemore before 1836 had no church of its own; most of it was a detached part of the parish of St Mary the Virgin (the university church) in Oxford High Street.

Ecclesiastical history has therefore locked the Iffley community into a wide family network. The common surnames extend in an arc from Church Cowley through Iffley and Littlemore; they appear to a lesser extent in Sandford. (They do not cross the river into South Hinksey, which is interesting.) Searchers for Iffley names should also check the registers of Cowley St James, of SS Mary and Nicholas, Littlemore and (before 1836) St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.

Second, beware common surnames. We are listing names with the date or period of their first appearance only. For example we have "Hill" first appearing in the burial registers of 1572-99. We give it then and not subsequently, although there are subsequent Hills and by the 19thc they are almost certainly new families and not descendants.

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Iffley Surnames From Parish Burial And Marriage Registers 1572-1874
Forms in brackets are alternative spellings which also appear.

1572-99 Burials
Akers (Acres)
Badgar Barrett Bartlett Beddall Bleye (Blay, Bleay) Bowell Broadwater Broman Brown(e) Bryers Busshop (Bishop) Bustan
Cartar (Carter) Catroll Chamberlen Cockes (Cox) Cockrell Cross(e)
Day(e) Dewe Dydgweede (Digweed)
Eadgar Evett (Evetts, Evits)
Fostar Frasyar (Frasier) Freeman Fyelde (Field)
Gasy (Gusy, Gassey) Girry Gybbs Gye
Harpar Harrys (Harris) Heath Hill Hinde Holloway Holyman Horton Howlett
Jeffryes
Kennington a.k.a. Barnard Knighte Knott
Lawrence Leetch (Leach) Lewys Longe Lye
Martin Mathewe Morrys (Morris) Myles (Miles)
Nash Nurse
Payne (Paine) Pearson Phillips Pitt(es) Pokins Pulkar (Pulcher)
Radish Redhead Richinson Rowbeard Rowe Royse
Savadge Shadd Shepheard (Shepperd) Sickes (Sykes) Siston Smyth (Smith) Snell Spensar (Spenser) Squyre Steevans (Stephens) Stockar (Stocker) Symons (Symonds)
Trulock
Wally(s) Waters Wayttes Webb Weeden Wil(l)mot(t) Winckle Winter (Wynter) Wytherall

1572-99 Marriages, surnames "of this parish" and not listed above.
Barringer Burges
Clare Clemente Collins
Davies (Davyes, Davis)
Hancockes Hawkins Hawle (Hall) Hawse Hidgins (Higgins) Holdsworth
Langley
Mutch Myn
Neaghbours
Osburne (Osborne)
a Pue
Reynolls Richardes
Symcockes
Thomas
Well(e)s Whitt (Whit, White, Whitte)
Yeatman Yeowen

1600-49 Burials (There are no entries for 1620, 22, 25, 27-9, 40-49)
Adams Alley
Barns Bedford Beneham Bennell Benwell Bocher Bostall Bushall
Cowburne
Eaton
Fey Forty French Fulford
Gold Gouldeborough Greene Griffin
Haseley Hester (Heaster) Hobbye
James Jett (Jutt, Get) Johnson Jones
Leaver
March Margett Mayoll Milles Minchin Moyers
Pagge Perey (Perry) Pick
Richardson
Sale Sherwood
Thomas Trenity (Trinitie) Truman
Wilkins Wise Wytney (Witney)

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1600-49 Marriages (There are no entries for 1617, 20, 25, 27-9, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42-9.)
Alcockes Arnoll Atwood
Ban(n)ister Bigges Blagrove Bonner Bowry Bowton Brandon Buckingham Bullock Busby
Carpenter
Donme (?Danbe, see below)
Evans
Fanse Figgeon Forwood Fox Francklin
Gibson Gilborne Godfrey Gurden Gyles (Giles)
Heyborne (Heborn) Heyward (Hayward) Hobbs Horne House
Isaack
Janes
Keate Kempe
Larken Lawson Limborne
Mason Merser
Newell Nutle
Ogley (Ockley) (?Oakley, see below) Owen
Perrin Prince
Reade Robtes
Sadler Sharp(e) Snow Stac(e)y Strangar Stroud
Taylo(u)r T(h)om(p)son Twigge
Vinson
Wakelin Walcott a.k.a. Walter(s) Ward Webster (Webbstere) West Willoughby Wood Woodson
Young(e)

1650-99 Burials (There are no entries for 1650-52, 60-77, 87-92)
Barclet Barfut (Barefoot) Barnett (Barnut) Bedgman
Compton Corstard
Dandridg(e) Dicks
Francle
Garnder Greening Groshey
Hatt Hine Huggins
Jackson
King
Loader
Marcham More (Moore)
Norris
Pinder Pisley (Peseley)
Rease Robartson
Sanders Steere (Stear)
Wilder William(e)s Wisdom Woodbridge

1650-99 Marriages (There are no entries for 1650-53, 60-78, 80-94, 99.)
Figg
Holyday
Issop
Keene
Pike

1700-49 Burials
Allet Allin
Barney Beal (Beall, Beale) Beemsley Beetle Bel(l)son Bennett Bond Bosel Boxley
Brook(e)s (Brockes) Burin (Burrin, Burron) Butcher
Clark(e) Clifton Cooper
Dean(e)
Edny (Edney, Ednie) Edwards Euins Evanson Eversley (Evetsley)
Fowler
Haiden Hanly Haynes Hedges Heyes Higgs Hodgkins Huet(t) Hussell
Knap
Lambourne (Lamborne)
Mace (Mas) May Meads Moseden (Mosden, Morsden) Mot(te)
Narroway (Araway)
Penn Pennington Peny (Penny) Piddington Plasted Polley
Quarterman
Rilen
Sayer Simpson Sis Sutton
Teryll (Tyrrell) Tomms Tubb Tuly Tutty
Veal
Waker Welstood (Wellsted) Weson Weston

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1700-49 Marriages
Allen
Beckett Burrows Button
Chambers Chandler Colet
Duber Druit (Drewett)
Eatough Emmerton
Faulkner Fletcher
Gering Goddard
Hepburn Hunt
Jacob
Kirkham
Lee
Man(n) Mors
Pawley Peen Pitman Pusee
Roberson
Watson Whe(e)ler

1750-99 Burials
Ayres (Eyres)
Baker Bampton Beeling Bell Bodington Bolt Boswell Burton Buxton
Cheitch Chitts (?altern Cheitch) Collett Cook Cornish Costar (Coster) Cotmoor Couldry
Dossett (Dorset)
Ealing Earles East Edmonds
Finch Frewen Funge
Grace Groves
Ham Hamilton Hanney Heans Hearne Hounsler
Izzard
Lanesborough Launsbury Lay Ludlow
Malthouse Merrick (Meyrick) Merritt (Merrett) Mountain
Parson(s) Pollington Pound
Quelch
Rieves (Reeves) Roff Round
Shaw Slemaker (Slaymaker) Smuing (Smewin) Strange
Tucker
Walling Weaving Westmucket Whichelow Winchester Wootton
Yearls

1750-99 Marriages
Adkins Arguile (Argyle) Austen (Austin)
Bassett Bayles Beesley Belson Biddle Birmingham Bryan
Cockade
Danbe Didcock Dollery Dorwood
Fleetwood Fleury (Florey) Francis
Gardner (Gardiner) Gregory
Harvey Hasterley Hissey Hitchman Honor Hooper Howell Hughes (Hews)
Janaway
Legg Lord
Magicks (?Meyricks) Molineux
Nowell
Packer Parker Piercey Purbrick Pym
Robinson
Shaker Simons Slade Slatter Southey Stanlick
Tanner Thornton Tomlin Tyror
Uzzel
Wilson
Yates

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1800-24 Burials
Ball Banting Baylis(s) Biddin Bolter (Boulter) Bond Briant (Bryant)
Cawdry (Cordery, Cordrey) Cripps
Doman Durbige
Figgins
George Gibbons Gordon
Hatton Honey Humphries
Leasingby
Marshall (Marshall Hacker) Michell (Mitchell)
Oakley
Paulin Pears Phipps Piggins
Small
Tombs
Waring Whiting Withers

1800-24 Marriages
Best Brookland (Bruckland) Burborough Bushnell
Castle(s) Clanville
Floyd
Hurst
Messenger Mobley
Nutt
Peake Price Putlock (Portlock)
Rollins
Scholey Sparkes Spriggs
Tidmarsh Town Turner
Undershell
Walker Wootten

1825-49 Burials
Barker Betteridge Bliss Brine Brogden Brownsell
Claydon Coates
Dudley Duffield Dyer
Edginton
Garnett Garot Goodgame Greenwood
Hanks Hart Hicks Hitchcock
Joyce
Kirb(e)y Kite
Maclin Martin Medwin
Rawlins Richmond Roberts Robins (Robbins)
Sankey Seymore Shelden Shirley Silver Simmonds Spiers Surman
Whitlock Wicks Willis Withers Wyatt

1825-49 Marriages
Barton Bavin Bradbury Burden
Charlett Couling
Dipper Duck Dumville
Herman Hoare Hurcombe
Jennings
Newman
Penbrey Pettyfer
Ray Ricks Robey
Smart
Tawney Timms (Timbs)
Verey
Whareham Wiblen Williamson

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1850-74 Burials
Alder Anderson Andrews
Barnes Bateman Betteriss Bradbury Bridgewater Buckett
Cadd Casey Colston Currill Curtis
Douglass
Ellis
Fawdrey Fortescue
Griffin Gurney
Heritage Hillesden (Hillsdon)
Jakeman
Lait Langham Lewis Linton
Matthes (Matthews)
Neale Newby Nickolls Nodding
Pether Pixley
Ridley
Sallis Sherman Steele Swadling
Terry Thicke Torwell (Torevell)
Vague
Walsh Warburton Warne Whitley Woodley Woods Wren

1850-74 Marriages
Abel Arnold
Bossom
Casey
Dorrell
Eeley Elliott
Fitchett
Gurney
Heeps Henwood Holden Hutt
Parks Parrott Peacock
Rayne Reid
Strong
Vallance
Wilks Woodward

Iffley People Continued

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Iffley People
Introduction The following is a list of surnames from Iffley records, listed with the date or period in which they first appear. The first lists are from the parish registers of St Mary the Virgin, Iffley, from their beginning (as a preserved record) in 1572 up to and including 1874. We start with the burial register because it is a good record of the permanent community; the parish church offered the only place to bury the local dead until the growth of free-church burial grounds (none near Iffley until the 1830s) and the Victorian municipal cemeteries and crematoria. We have then checked the marriage registers for additional names, using those given as "of this parish" and where there is doubt giving them the benefit. After 1850 parish registers are inadequate as a record of population. Secular records become increasingly useful. We have therefore used directories, electoral rolls, census returns and other references from 1853 until 1901. From these we have taken the names of heads of household (the lists will not include resident indoor servants, even if they stayed with one household for twenty years and became part of the local scene). Again, the names given are additional; we don't repeat any already included in the parish lists. (See link below for Iffley People Continued for 1830 onwards.) There are two points to note when searching. First, St Mary the Virgin Iffley was not restricted to serving Iffley alone until the 1880s. Odd survivals of medieval parish structure gave it a second community to serve in Littlemore until 1836, and another in Cowley until 1885. The detached Cowley district was called Hockmore Street; its people sometimes used the churchway to Iffley and sometimes used their neighbouring church of St James. Littlemore before 1836 had no church of its own; most of it was a detached part of the parish of St Mary the Virgin (the university church) in Oxford High Street. Ecclesiastical history has therefore locked the Iffley community into a wide family network. The common surnames extend in an arc from Church Cowley through Iffley and Littlemore; they appear to a lesser extent in Sandford. (They do not cross the river into South Hinksey, which is interesting.) Searchers for Iffley names should also check the registers of Cowley St James, of SS Mary and Nicholas, Littlemore and (before 1836) St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. Second, beware common surnames. We are listing names with the date or period of their first appearance only. For example we have "Hill" first appearing in the burial registers of 1572-99. We give it then and not subsequently, although there are subsequent Hills and by the 19thc they are almost certainly new families and not descendants. Back To Top Iffley Surnames From Parish Burial And Marriage Registers 1572-1874 Forms in brackets are alternative spellings which also appear. 1572-99 Burials Akers (Acres) Badgar Barrett Bartlett Beddall Bleye (Blay, Bleay) Bowell Broadwater Broman Brown(e) Bryers Busshop (Bishop) Bustan Cartar (Carter) Catroll Chamberlen Cockes (Cox) Cockrell Cross(e) Day(e) Dewe Dydgweede (Digweed) Eadgar Evett (Evetts, Evits) Fostar Frasyar (Frasier) Freeman Fyelde (Field) Gasy (Gusy, Gassey) Girry Gybbs Gye Harpar Harrys (Harris) Heath Hill Hinde Holloway Holyman Horton Howlett Jeffryes Kennington a.k.a. Barnard Knighte Knott Lawrence Leetch (Leach) Lewys Longe Lye Martin Mathewe Morrys (Morris) Myles (Miles) Nash Nurse Payne (Paine) Pearson Phillips Pitt(es) Pokins Pulkar (Pulcher) Radish Redhead Richinson Rowbeard Rowe Royse Savadge Shadd Shepheard (Shepperd) Sickes (Sykes) Siston Smyth (Smith) Snell Spensar (Spenser) Squyre Steevans (Stephens) Stockar (Stocker) Symons (Symonds) Trulock Wally(s) Waters Wayttes Webb Weeden Wil(l)mot(t) Winckle Winter (Wynter) Wytherall 1572-99 Marriages, surnames "of this parish" and not listed above. Barringer Burges Clare Clemente Collins Davies (Davyes, Davis) Hancockes Hawkins Hawle (Hall) Hawse Hidgins (Higgins) Holdsworth Langley Mutch Myn Neaghbours Osburne (Osborne) a Pue Reynolls Richardes Symcockes Thomas Well(e)s Whitt (Whit, White, Whitte) Yeatman Yeowen 1600-49 Burials (There are no entries for 1620, 22, 25, 27-9, 40-49) Adams Alley Barns Bedford Beneham Bennell Benwell Bocher Bostall Bushall Cowburne Eaton Fey Forty French Fulford Gold Gouldeborough Greene Griffin Haseley Hester (Heaster) Hobbye James Jett (Jutt, Get) Johnson Jones Leaver March Margett Mayoll Milles Minchin Moyers Pagge Perey (Perry) Pick Richardson Sale Sherwood Thomas Trenity (Trinitie) Truman Wilkins Wise Wytney (Witney) Back To Top 1600-49 Marriages (There are no entries for 1617, 20, 25, 27-9, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42-9.) Alcockes Arnoll Atwood Ban(n)ister Bigges Blagrove Bonner Bowry Bowton Brandon Buckingham Bullock Busby Carpenter Donme (?Danbe, see below) Evans Fanse Figgeon Forwood Fox Francklin Gibson Gilborne Godfrey Gurden Gyles (Giles) Heyborne (Heborn) Heyward (Hayward) Hobbs Horne House Isaack Janes Keate Kempe Larken Lawson Limborne Mason Merser Newell Nutle Ogley (Ockley) (?Oakley, see below) Owen Perrin Prince Reade Robtes Sadler Sharp(e) Snow Stac(e)y Strangar Stroud Taylo(u)r T(h)om(p)son Twigge Vinson Wakelin Walcott a.k.a. Walter(s) Ward Webster (Webbstere) West Willoughby Wood Woodson Young(e) 1650-99 Burials (There are no entries for 1650-52, 60-77, 87-92) Barclet Barfut (Barefoot) Barnett (Barnut) Bedgman Compton Corstard Dandridg(e) Dicks Francle Garnder Greening Groshey Hatt Hine Huggins Jackson King Loader Marcham More (Moore) Norris Pinder Pisley (Peseley) Rease Robartson Sanders Steere (Stear) Wilder William(e)s Wisdom Woodbridge 1650-99 Marriages (There are no entries for 1650-53, 60-78, 80-94, 99.) Figg Holyday Issop Keene Pike 1700-49 Burials Allet Allin Barney Beal (Beall, Beale) Beemsley Beetle Bel(l)son Bennett Bond Bosel Boxley Brook(e)s (Brockes) Burin (Burrin, Burron) Butcher Clark(e) Clifton Cooper Dean(e) Edny (Edney, Ednie) Edwards Euins Evanson Eversley (Evetsley) Fowler Haiden Hanly Haynes Hedges Heyes Higgs Hodgkins Huet(t) Hussell Knap Lambourne (Lamborne) Mace (Mas) May Meads Moseden (Mosden, Morsden) Mot(te) Narroway (Araway) Penn Pennington Peny (Penny) Piddington Plasted Polley Quarterman Rilen Sayer Simpson Sis Sutton Teryll (Tyrrell) Tomms Tubb Tuly Tutty Veal Waker Welstood (Wellsted) Weson Weston Back To Top 1700-49 Marriages Allen Beckett Burrows Button Chambers Chandler Colet Duber Druit (Drewett) Eatough Emmerton Faulkner Fletcher Gering Goddard Hepburn Hunt Jacob Kirkham Lee Man(n) Mors Pawley Peen Pitman Pusee Roberson Watson Whe(e)ler 1750-99 Burials Ayres (Eyres) Baker Bampton Beeling Bell Bodington Bolt Boswell Burton Buxton Cheitch Chitts (?altern Cheitch) Collett Cook Cornish Costar (Coster) Cotmoor Couldry Dossett (Dorset) Ealing Earles East Edmonds Finch Frewen Funge Grace Groves Ham Hamilton Hanney Heans Hearne Hounsler Izzard Lanesborough Launsbury Lay Ludlow Malthouse Merrick (Meyrick) Merritt (Merrett) Mountain Parson(s) Pollington Pound Quelch Rieves (Reeves) Roff Round Shaw Slemaker (Slaymaker) Smuing (Smewin) Strange Tucker Walling Weaving Westmucket Whichelow Winchester Wootton Yearls 1750-99 Marriages Adkins Arguile (Argyle) Austen (Austin) Bassett Bayles Beesley Belson Biddle Birmingham Bryan Cockade Danbe Didcock Dollery Dorwood Fleetwood Fleury (Florey) Francis Gardner (Gardiner) Gregory Harvey Hasterley Hissey Hitchman Honor Hooper Howell Hughes (Hews) Janaway Legg Lord Magicks (?Meyricks) Molineux Nowell Packer Parker Piercey Purbrick Pym Robinson Shaker Simons Slade Slatter Southey Stanlick Tanner Thornton Tomlin Tyror Uzzel Wilson Yates Back To Top 1800-24 Burials Ball Banting Baylis(s) Biddin Bolter (Boulter) Bond Briant (Bryant) Cawdry (Cordery, Cordrey) Cripps Doman Durbige Figgins George Gibbons Gordon Hatton Honey Humphries Leasingby Marshall (Marshall Hacker) Michell (Mitchell) Oakley Paulin Pears Phipps Piggins Small Tombs Waring Whiting Withers 1800-24 Marriages Best Brookland (Bruckland) Burborough Bushnell Castle(s) Clanville Floyd Hurst Messenger Mobley Nutt Peake Price Putlock (Portlock) Rollins Scholey Sparkes Spriggs Tidmarsh Town Turner Undershell Walker Wootten 1825-49 Burials Barker Betteridge Bliss Brine Brogden Brownsell Claydon Coates Dudley Duffield Dyer Edginton Garnett Garot Goodgame Greenwood Hanks Hart Hicks Hitchcock Joyce Kirb(e)y Kite Maclin Martin Medwin Rawlins Richmond Roberts Robins (Robbins) Sankey Seymore Shelden Shirley Silver Simmonds Spiers Surman Whitlock Wicks Willis Withers Wyatt 1825-49 Marriages Barton Bavin Bradbury Burden Charlett Couling Dipper Duck Dumville Herman Hoare Hurcombe Jennings Newman Penbrey Pettyfer Ray Ricks Robey Smart Tawney Timms (Timbs) Verey Whareham Wiblen Williamson Back To Top 1850-74 Burials Alder Anderson Andrews Barnes Bateman Betteriss Bradbury Bridgewater Buckett Cadd Casey Colston Currill Curtis Douglass Ellis Fawdrey Fortescue Griffin Gurney Heritage Hillesden (Hillsdon) Jakeman Lait Langham Lewis Linton Matthes (Matthews) Neale Newby Nickolls Nodding Pether Pixley Ridley Sallis Sherman Steele Swadling Terry Thicke Torwell (Torevell) Vague Walsh Warburton Warne Whitley Woodley Woods Wren 1850-74 Marriages Abel Arnold Bossom Casey Dorrell Eeley Elliott Fitchett Gurney Heeps Henwood Holden Hutt Parks Parrott Peacock Rayne Reid Strong Vallance Wilks Woodward Iffley People Continued