Iron Acton, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Iron Acton, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Iron Acton, Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Thornbury |
| County | Gloucestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Chipping Sodbury |
| Registration District | Chipping Sodbury |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1570 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1602 | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Hawkesbury |
| 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]
IRON-ACTON (St. James), a parish, partly in the Lower division of the hundred of Grumbald's-Ash, but chiefly in the Lower division of that of Thornbury, union of Chipping-Sodbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 3½ miles (W. N. W.) from Chipping-Sodbury. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Church Records[edit | edit source]
{PAGENAME}} parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| AC = Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (Ancestry) - (£)[2][3][4] | |||||
| BOYD = Boyd's Marriage Index (findmypast) - (£) | |||||
| IARC = Internet Archive - free[5] |
| Iron Acton, Gloucestershire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1813-1857 | 1813-1857 | 1813-1857 | 1813-1857 | 1813-1857 | 1813-1857 |
| BOYD | 1584-1841 | 1575-1899 | ||||
| IARC | 1574-1753 (gaps) | 1577-1762 (gaps) | 1572-1750 (gaps) | |||
Non-conformist Records[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)
Online Parish Clerks[edit | edit source]
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.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 620-623. Date accessed: 08 January 2013.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 22 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938', Ancestry, accessed 20 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Burials, 1813-1988,' Ancestry, accessed 24 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Extracts from Parish Registers, No. V.: Iron Acton,' in Beaver H. Blacker, ed., Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol. 3 (1887):51-55. Digitised by Internet Archive - free.
