Brimscombe, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Brimscombe, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Brimscombe, Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Longtree |
| County | Gloucestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Stroud |
| Registration District | Stroud |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1841 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1841 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Stonehouse |
| Diocese | Gloucester and Bristol |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Gloucestershire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
BRIMSCOMB-PORT, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Minchin-Hampton, union of Stroud ,hundred of Bisley, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from Stroud; comprising the hamlets of Chalford, Hyde, Burley, Brimscomb, and Cowcombe. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Guide to Brimscombe, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| AC = Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (Ancestry) - (£)[2][3] | |||||
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) (£)[4] |
| BRIMSCOMBE PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1841-1913 | 1841-1913 | 1841-1938 | 1841-1938 | 1841-1933 | 1841-1933 |
| BOYD | 1859 | |||||
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Non Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
- 1642-1996 England, Gloucestershire Non-conformist Records, 1642-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Census Records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Gloucestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 375-379. Date accessed: 07 May 2013.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 24 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Burials, 1813-1988,' Ancestry, accessed 5 July 2016.
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net, accessed 1 December 2012.
