The Weir, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to The Weir, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
The Weir, Gloucestershire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Barton Regis; Bristol City |
County | Gloucestershire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Bristol |
Registration District | Bristol |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: None | |
Bishop's Transcripts: None | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Bristol |
Diocese | 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]
WEIR, a chapelry in St. Paul-Within, St. Peter, and St. Philip and St. Jacob parishes, Gloucester; within. Bristol city. It was constituted in of Gloucester and Bristol.[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]
The Weir parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
The Weir Online Parish Records | ||||||
Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FS | 1538-1975 | 1538-1973 | 1538-1991 | |||
FREG | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | 1538-1900s | |||
ANC 1 | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | 1538-1812 | |||
ANC 2 | 1813-1913 | 1754-1938 | 1813-1988 | |||
TGEN | 1538-1844 | |||||
JOIN | 1538-1837 | |||||
BOYD | 1538-1850 | |||||
NBI | 1813-1893 | |||||
IGI | ||||||
FS Catalog PRs | ||||||
FS Catalog BTs |
To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.
Records are also available at the Gloucestershire Archives.
Non-Conformist Records[edit | edit source]
- 1642-1996 England, Gloucestershire Non-conformist Records, 1642-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)
Non Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
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.
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]
Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Date accessed: 25 July 2013.
- ↑ Searching Parish Records online (Gloucestershire) - The Following Parishes are Available at TheGenealogist, ParishRegister.co.uk, accessed 23 April 2019.
- ↑ ArcherSoftware.co.uk