Horton Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Horton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1567
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HORTON, a village and a parish in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester. The village stands among the Cotswolds, 3¼ miles NE of Chipping-Sodbury, and 4¾ ENE of Yate r. station.
The parish comprises 3,540 acres; and its post town is Chipping-Sodbury under Chippenham. Real property, £4,751. Pop., 454. Houses, 98. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belonged once to the Pastons; and part of the old manor house still stands, and belongs now to Mrs. E. Fayle. Parts of the Cotswolds here command fine views.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £657. Patron, the Rev. T. R. Brooke, The church is early English; was restored in 1865; consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with porch and embattled tower; and contains tombs of the Pastons, and several old monuments.
There is a national school, an ornate structure of 1860. Charities, £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Parish Registers
Marriages at Horton, 1567 to 1812
Note. – The Registers of Horton to 1812 are contained in three books.
Volume I consists of 68 parchment leaves (of which three are loose), measuring 7 ½ in. by 10 ¾ in. It is bound in a limp parchment cover, and is in fair condition, tough as three leaves of Baptisms are loose, the churchwardens would be well advised to have the volume carefully rebound.
The Baptisms, 1567 to 1746, occupy the first 35 folios; ff. 16a and 36 are blank. Then follow the Marriages, 1567 to 1746, from fo. 37 to fo. 46, with the considerable gap of 36 years, from 1624 to 1660, fo. 46a is blank, fo. 47 is blank, but on fo. 47a are entered three Burials of 1745-46.
On fo. 48 commence the Burials, 1567 to 1746. The Burials continue with regularity to 1620, then on the same page, without break or explanation, begins the year 1661, and then the entries continue to 1746, the last of them, as already stated, being on fo. 47a.
Between the entries of 1740 and 1741 is a short list of excommunicated persons from 1663 to 1668. On the last page is a note of the burial of Wm. Murford, 1670, “in the Quakers’ burial place towards Bristol”, and of Wm. Higgs and Eleanor his wife, Anabaptists, buried “in the garden of James Nobbs, sen.” In order of date appears also this entry, “1698, James Nobbs, a great Anabaptist, was buryed in Tho. Howell’s garden July the 22th”.
Volume II commences in 1747, and ends in 1786. It includes besides Baptisms and Burials, Marriages to 1786. It is of forty-one parchment leaves, measuring 8 in. by 12 ¾ in., and is bound in soft calf boards. It is in good condition.
Volume III :- For particulars see in loco, p. 12 post.
These extracts have been made by Miss Olive M. Begbie, and are now printed under her supervision by leave of the Rev. A. J. Begbie, rector of Horton. The proof has been carefully collated with the Register.
Marriages at Horton, 1567 to 1812 Gloucestershire Parish Registers – Marriages volume 13 – ukga.org
Transcriptions
Horton Marriages 1786 to 1812
Volume III.
Volume III commences in 1786, and ends in 1812. It includes Marriages 1786 to 1811. It is of 110 paper leaves, including fly leaves, measuring 9 ½ in. by 15 in., and is bound in soft tan calf, stamped similar to Volume II, stretched over cardboard covers. It is in excellent condition.
This Volume is composed of four separate Registers (for Banns, Marriages, Births and Christenings, and Burials) bound into one. There are 24 leaves of printed forms for each division, four forms on each page. After 1812, a new Register Book was started, leaving Volume III only half filled. Each division of the Register has a separate title page, stating that it was published in 1783 conformable to an Act of 23 George III, for granting a Stamp Duty on the Registry of Burials, Marriages, Births and Christenings.
Thomas Arthurs, of Old Sodbury, & Elizabeth Butler, 5 Nov. 1787
John Iles, of Chipping Sodbury, & Ann Ritchings, lic., 3 Apr. 1788
Joseph Alway & Sarah Gibbs, lic., 12 May 1788
William Baylis & Grace Iddols, lic., 4 May 1789
Samuel Hulance & Betty Webbly, 7 June 1789
John Russell & Hannah Hall, lic., 26 May 1790
Thomas Webb, of Old Sodbury, & Mary Baker, 18 Oct. 1790
George Blunson & Jane Weston, lic., 25 Oct. 1790
Edward Stiff, of Chipping Sodbury, & Mary Isaac, 26 Dec. 1790
William Wickham, of Cromhall, & Elizabeth Slade, lic., 27 Dec. 1790
Thomas Olive, of Old Sodbury, & Temperance Isaac, 3 Apr. 1791
James Lideat, of Hawkesbury, & Mary Curtis, 5 June 1791
Joshua Sargant & Rachel Butler, 13 June 1791
Robert Herne & Temperance Rodway, 11 Apr. 1792
Jacob Pride & Sarah Pullen, 13 Feb. 1793
William Pritchard, of Chipping Sodbury, & Ann Wasburn, 3 Nov. 1793
Daniel Bethel & Ann Hale, 9 June 1794
Ephraim Prout, w., & Sarah Potter, lic., 8 Jan. 1795
Thomas Kinson, of the Tithing of Kilcot, p. Hawkesbury, & Agnes White, 1 Mar. 1795
Nicholas Alway & Ann Payne, lic., 23 Apr. 1795
Joseph Chambers & Johannah Ball, 22 June 1795
James Hall, of Horton, & Elizabeth Derrett, of Chipping Sodbury, 28 Sept. 1795
William Woodman, of Great Badminton, & Jane Butler, 7 Dec. 1795
James Tilling, of Little Sodbury, & Hannah Hulands, 28 Mar. 1796
John Pulling & Sarah King, 23 Aug. 1796
John Golding & Ann Isaac, 24 June 1797
Thomas Kinson & Martha Ball, 23 Sept. 1797
William Cullimore, of Yate, & Mary Mills, 14 Oct. 1797
William Tuck & Patience Stinchcombe, 24 Oct. 1797
Daniel Smith, of Old Sodbury, & Mary Butler, 13 May 1799
Samuel Tuck & Jane Chambers, 1 Aug. 1799
Edward Hall, of Horton, & Jane Cooper, of Hawkesbury, lic., 26 Sept. 1799
James Iles & Sarah Gleed, w., lic., 9 Oct. 1800
Thomas Butler & Mary Reed, 6 Apr. 1801
Edward Ferris & Hannah Hicks, 13 Oct. 1801
Humphry Beak, of Titherington, & Ann Ferris, 11 Oct. 1802
John Church & Elizabeth Church, 6 June 1803
John Grant & Hannah Hunt, 15 Aug. 1804
William Beard & Margaret Prout, 20 Aug. 1804
James Herne & Sarah Beard, 15 Oct. 1804
William Pullin & Maria Butler, 7 Jan. 1805
John Higgs & Sarah Sargent, 4 Feb. 1805
Richard Boulton & Patience Curtis, 24 Nov. 1805
George Long & Hannah Thompson, 1 Jan. 1806
John Pearce, of Luckington,, Wilts, & Mary Alding, 6 Apr. 1806
Joseph Chambers & Hannah Miles, 7 Apr. 1806
Thomas Bailey & Rebecca Sumbler, 13 Jan. 1807
John Hobbs & Hester Webbly, 22 Jan. 1807
Giles Davis & Hannah Bennett, 9 Feb. 1807
Richard Hullance, w., & Mary Pinnel, w., 15 Aug. 1808
Aaron Isaac & Martha Russell, 22 Aug. 1808
John Smith & Mary Russell, lic., 1 Oct. 1808
Obadiah Russell & Mary Long, 30 May 1809
Uriah Rabbits, of Chipping Sodbury, Glos., & Elizabeth Butler, 7 Feb. 1810
James Thompson & Ann Winbow, 30 Aug. 1810
James Chambers & Katherine Thomas, 31 Oct. 1810
Thomas Croome, w., & Sarah Pulling, w., 24 Dec. 1810
Peter Buckle & Ann Blunson, 21 Jan. 1811
George Painter, of Tormarton, Glos., & Anne Pacey, 30 June 1811
James Gale & Sarah Hinder, 25 Nov. 1811
[No Marriages in 1812.]
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. XIII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1908.
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Chipping Sodbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
- Rural Deanery: Hawkesbury
- Poor Law Union: Chipping Sodbury
- Hundred: Grumbald’s Ash
- Province: Canterbury