Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
 Clifford Chambers St Helen | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Tewkesbury |
| County | Gloucestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Stratford on Avon |
| Registration District | Stratford on Avon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1538 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1623 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Campden |
| Diocese | Pre 1836 - Gloucester; Post 1835 - 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]
CLIFFORD-CHAMBERS (St. Helen), a parish, in the union of Stratford-upon-Avon, Upper division of the hundred of Tewkesbury, though locally in that of the hundred of Kiftsgate, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2½ miles (S. by W.) from Stratford. [1]
The parish was historically part of the county of Gloucestershire until 1931 when local government boundary changes placed it in the county of Warwickshire.
The village claims to be the real birthplace of William Shakespeare as the bubonic plague was rife in Stratford-upon-Avon at the time of the bard's birth and during times of plague Clifford Chambers rectory was used as a refuge. Shakespeare's father's legal advisor also lived in the village, the man who dealt with the Shakespeare's house in Stratford. Until 2004 the village was in its own parish but it is now part of the parish of Clifford Chambers and Milcote.
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]
Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| CLIFFORD CHAMBERS PARISH (1538) Online Records | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1623-1812 | 1623-1812 | 1623-1812 | 1623-1812 | 1623-1812 | 1623-1812 |
| AC | 1813-1877 | 1813-1877 | 1816-1877 | 1816-1877 | 1813-1877 | 1813-1877 |
| BOYD | 1538-1808 | |||||
| FREG | 1538-1812 | |||||
| JOIN | 1538-1808 | |||||
| PALL | 1790-1812 | |||||
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. 632-635.Date accessed: 25 March 2013.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813', Ancestry, accessed 16 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 23 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938', Ancestry, accessed 20 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' Origins.net, accessed 1 December 2012.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 28 April 2014.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
