Oxfordshire Directories

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Pigot's 1844 Directory
(Combined county volume)

Combined 1847 Post Office Directories: Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Huntingdonshire Berkshire Northamptonshire Oxfordshire
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1864 Oxfordshire Post Office Directory

A Post Office Directory

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. 1783 Bailey Bailey's Western & Midland Directory
Contains larger towns in Oxfordshire only

1784 Bailey Bailey's British Directory
(Oxfordshire in vol. 2)

1791 Universal Directory of Britain Larger towns and villages in Oxfordshire only.
(A good directory of the whole of England & Wales)

. 1823 Pigot & Co First Pigot directory. Main towns only.

. 1824 Pigot & Co Reprint of 1823

1830 Pigot & Co. First full county directory. Smaller places listed in areas with next nearest town or larger village.
Avaliable to view online at British-Genealogy.com

1832 Rusher Rusher's Banbury Directory
Published yearly until 1889

1835 Vincent The Oxford University, City & County Directory
70pp

1839 Robson Robson's Commercial Directory
Oxfordshire (82pp)

1842 Pigot & Co. New survey, with more detail
One of the earliest directories, this one covers the whole of the county, with descriptions of all of the towns and main villages, churches, schools, etc. and a listing of people with trades. Everything from doctors to candle makers, dress makers working from home to chimney sweeps, butchers, bakers and bricklayers, etc. A huge amount of early 19th century information of interest to historians and genealogists.

. 1844 Pigot & Co. Reprint of 1842 edition

. 1846 Hunt & Co. Hunt & Co's Oxford Directory.
With Abingdon, Banbury and some other places in Oxfordshire

1847 Kelly & Co. Oxfordshire 1847 Post Office Directory
The Post Office Directories were the fore-runners of (and published by) Kelly & Co. Directories.

. 1850 Slater's New survey of the county.
Slater's took over from Pigot & Co.

1851 Slater's Re-issue of 1850

1852 Gardiner Gardner's History, Gazetteer & Directory of the County of Oxford 1852
The first major directory of Oxfordshire. Printed and published by Robert Gardner for subscribers only. x + 864 pages.

. 1854 Kelly & Co. Post Office Directory of Oxfordshire
New edition

This list is complete up to this date. There may be additional directories published for later dates than those listed below.

1864 Kelly & Co. Oxfordshire 1864 Post Office Directory
Post Office directories were the fore-runners of the Kelly's directories, (and published by Kelly's). A usual, this one contains three directories in one. A County Directory of places and inhabitants with trades, descriptions of facilities, etc; a Court Directory; and a Classified Trades Directory. Includes an 1864 map of the county.

1869 Kelly & Co. Oxfordshire 1869 Post Office Directory

more Kelly's directories were published in this period. Details to be added.

1903 Kelly & Co. Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire 1903
A thorough description of the local history and facilities in each place, plus directories of private residents and traders. The city of Oxford also has a superb street by street directory which names heads of households and shows their occupations.