Thornbury, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Thornbury, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Thornbury, Gloucestershire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | Thornbury |
County | Gloucestershire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Thornbury |
Registration District | Thornbury |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1550 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1578 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Dursley |
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]
THORNBURY (St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the Lower division of the hundred of Thornbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 24 miles (S. W.) from Gloucester, and 124 (W. by N.) from London; containing, the tything of Kington, and the chapelries of Falfield,Moorton, Oldbury, and Rangeworthy. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends,Independents, and Wesleyans. [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]
Thornbury, Gloucestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
THORNBURY PARISH Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
AC | 1550-1812 | 1550-1812 | 1550-1753 | 1550-1753 | 1550-1812 | 1550-1812 |
AC | 1813-1913 | 1813-1913 | 1754-1938 | 1754-1938 | 1813-1988 | 1813-1988 |
BAFHS | 1664-1683, 1718-1727 | |||||
BOYD | 1550-1812 | |||||
FHSO | 1800-1837 | |||||
FREG | 1539-1812 | |||||
IARC | 1613-1661 (gaps) | 1559-1670 (gaps) | 1609-1702 (gaps) | |||
IARC | 1580-1672 (gaps) | 1620-1735 (gaps) | 1579-1764 (gaps) | |||
JOIN | 1550-1812 | |||||
PALL | 1790-1812 |
- 1664-1683, 1718-1727 - Thornbury Marriages - missing from Phillimore's Gloucestershire Vol. XV. As listed by E.A. Roe from Gloucester Bishops Transcripts available online at Bristol & Avon Family History Society website - free.
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)
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]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 331-335. Date accessed: 05 February 2013.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813,' Ancestry, accessed 20 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 22 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Marriages, 1754-1938,' Ancestry, accessed 20 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Burials, 1813-1988,' Ancestry, accessed 28 June 2016.
- ↑ Thornbury Marriages - missing from Phillimore's Gloucestershire Vol. XV. As listed by E.A. Roe from Gloucester Bishops Transcripts available online at Bristol & Avon Family History Society website - free.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 'Extracts from Parish Registers, No. IX.: Thornbury and Olveston,' in Beaver H. Blacker, ed., Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol. 3 (1887):256-257. Digitised by Internet Archive - free.
- ↑ 'Extracts from Parish Registers, No. X.: Bushley and Thornbury,' in Beaver H. Blacker, ed., Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, Vol. 3 (1887):410-414. Digitised by Internet Archive - free.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire Coverage,' The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 18 April 2014.
- ↑ Pallot's Marriage and Birth Indexes, Guide to Parishes. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library.