Welford, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Welford, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Part of this parish is in Warwickshire. See also Welford, Warwickshire.
| Welford, Gloucestershire | |
|---|---|
 Welford on Avon St Peter Warwickshire contributor Dave Bushell | |
| Type | Ancient Parish |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | Barlichway; Deerhurst |
| County | Gloucestershire |
| Poor Law Union | Stratford on Avon |
| Registration District | Stratford on Avon |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: 1561 | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: 1605 | |
| 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]
WELFORD (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Stratford-upon-Avon, partly in the Stratford division of the hundred of Barlichway, S. division of the county of Warwick, but chiefly in the Upper division of the hundred of Deerhurst, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 4¼ miles (W. S. W.) from Stratford;contains the hamlet of Brickmersh,in the township of Welford.The parish is situated on the river Avon. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also an infants' school. [1]
Welford is an ancient Ecclesiastical parish is partly in the county of Gloucester and partly in the county of Warwick.
Until 1931 Welford-on-Avon was in Gloucestershire (as part of the rural district of Marston Sicca) and was, until 1974, part of Stratford-upon-Avon Rural District since then it is in the district of Stratford-on-Avon in the county of Warwickshire.
The village sits within a bend of the River Avon, on the south bank. It has the tallest maypole in England (at 65 feet / 20 metres). It used to be wooden but was replaced by an aluminium pole after a lightning strike
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]
Welford, Gloucestershire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
| Welford, Gloucestershire Genealogy Online Parish Records | ||||||
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| Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
| AC | 1605-1812 | 1605-1812 | 1605-1812 | 1605-1812 | 1605-1812 | 1605-1812 |
| AC | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 | 1813-1866 |
| BIVRI | 1880-1885 | |||||
| BOYD | 1561-1716 | |||||
| FHSO | 1813-1837 | |||||
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. 498-499. Date accessed: 12 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 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.
- ↑ 'British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Breakdown of Records', Genoot, accessed 25 April 2014.
- ↑ 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.
