About kingston-bagpuize.com
Why this website? What's it about?
Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor - a Village Snapshot - kingston-bagpuize.com is a result of my two favourite hobbies - creating websites and family and local history research, both of which I share with my husband.
This site explores, through genealogical records and other data, some historical aspects of this area and its people. It is an ongoing task with no time limit or cut off date.
The purpose of this site is twofold
- To give an insight of our village for visitors to Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor and area
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- To help promote and preserve the history of the village and area, in conjunction with the Longworth & District History Society.
Sharing genealogical information is something that I have always been ready to do and I have long wanted to design a website about one of my ancestor's villages or home towns.
Inevitably I found that living far from these regions it became more difficult to source information and keep up-to-date.
I designed my first website as I wanted to broadcast our research interests in the hope that others would be able to share interests. Ultimately I became hooked on web design and my new hobby began!
I decided to write about the subject I knew most about, Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor and its inhabitants past and present. The village has been our family home for 40 years. I am involved with the local and family history societies and with my husband have done much research in this area. We have transcribed the local Parish Registers and have also transcribed several local graveyards for the Oxfordshire Family History Society.
So, with a theme in mind I set about creating this website. Since that time, the site has been amended several times, adding new stories and snippets. Recently the site has been renamed and the whole site redesigned.
Why not consider writing a short story of your memories to add to this site and to the history of our villages? I shall ensure that any narratives sent to me also go into the archives of the Longworth & District History Society, if that is your wish.
Please feel free to browse the site to discover more about our village and will return soon to read updates..