Fairford, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Fairford, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Fairford, Gloucestershire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Brightwells-Barrow |
County | Gloucestershire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Cirencester |
Registration District | Cirencester |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1617 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1612 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Fairford |
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 Archives | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
FAIRFORD (Virgin Mary), a market-town and parish, in the union of Cirencester, hundred of Brightwell's-Barrow, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 24 miles (S. E. by E.) from Gloucester, and 80 (W. by N.) from London. [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]
Fairford, Gloucestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
Fairford, Gloucestershire Genealogy Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
AC | 1607-1812 | 1607-1812 | 1607-1753 | 1607-1753 | 1607-1812 | 1607-1812 |
AC | 1813-1913 | 1813-1913 | 1754-1938 | 1754-1938 | 1813-1987 | 1813-1987 |
BOYD | 1619-1837 | |||||
FHSO | 1800-1837 | |||||
JOIN | 1619-1837 | |||||
PALL | 1790-1837 |
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
- 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
- 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. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Genealogy
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Albery, Alan. The Unreturning Prodigal: George Venn Wakeford. George Venn Wakeford, born 1799, one of Nathaniel and Jenny Wakeford's six children, whe went to Brazil in 1823. Mention made of Fairford, Gloucestershire. The author found letters written by George in amongst papers relation to Oakley Hall Estate, between Oakley and Dean 6 miles west of Basingstoke. George changed his surname to Wilson, while in Brazil. Article tells of family history of Wakefords and part of George's life. Article dating from 1767-1976.
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]
Reference[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 206-209. Date accessed: 03 December 2012.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813,' Ancestry, accessed 17 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 23 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Marriages, 1754-1938,' Ancestry, accessed 21 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Burials, 1813-1988,' Ancestry, accessed 28 June 2016.
- ↑ Percival Boyd, A List of Parishes in Boyd's Marriage Index (London: Society of Genealogists, 1987). Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.
- ↑ 'Coverage for the Gloucestershire Marriages database,' FHS Online, accessed 5 May 2014.
- ↑ 'Somerset Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 18 October 2013.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.