Genealogy Chat

Can anyone confirm if there was a church in Grove, Berkshire from about 1820. I know there was a church built in 1835 but can not find reference to one before this time. thanks

This was on the Genuki page Grove Hamlet and district parish in the hundred of Wantage. According to the Victoria County History, Grove became a separate parish in 1835 and has its own registers; so it really should have its own page instead of being on the Wantage parish page. and this from the Wantage page GROVE, a hamlet and district parish in the hundred of Wantage, county Berks, 1 mile N. of Wantage, its post town, and 7 miles W. of Harwell. The Wantage Road station, on the Great Western railway, is within a short distance of the village. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Oxford, value £83, in the patronage of the Vicar of Wantage. The church is a small building erected in 1832. Here is a National school, held in the old chapel, which has been repaired for this purpose.' I can't see anything earlier Linda

Thank you.. I think that answers my question..someone 'born' in Grove in 1826 could not have been baptised there if no church existed. I have a ancestor who I found in 1851 as born Grove, I have found what I think is a match on Roots Web but her baptism shows Harwell (which is not far from Grove), and also on the 1841 Census she shows as Harwell. What do you think?

I have continued to look and everything I found says that it did not seperate from Wantage parish until 1835. I don't know that area, but do have ancestors in one of the small villages in Berkshire which like yours did not have a church until later. They were baptised in two churches, both a couple of miles from the village, so yours sounds plausible linda

I have just sent you a message linda