Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Mangotsfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire. Downend is a chapelry of Mangotsfield.

Other places in the parish include: Staplehill.

Parish church: St. James

Parish registers begin: 1579

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MANGOTSFIELD, a village and a parish in the district of Keynsham and county of Gloucester. The village stands adjacent to the Bristol and Birmingham railway, 6 miles N E of Bristol; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Bristol.

The parish contains also Staplehill and Downend. Acres, 2,591. Real property, £9,975; of which £30 are in quarries, £500 in mines, and £65 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 3,967; in 1861, 4,222. Houses, 922. The property is much subdivided. There are numerous good residences. Pennant stone is worked in the N; and the coal tract of Kingswood adjoins the S. There was anciently a nunnery; and remains of it existed in the time of Leland.

The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Downend, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £251. Patron, the Rev. A. Peache. The church was mainly rebuilt in 1850: is in the pointed style; and consists of nave, N aisle, chantry, and chancel, with tower and spire. A chapel of ease, with 1,020 sittings, is at Downend.

There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyans, two national schools, an infant school, and an Independent day school. A police station is at Staplehill.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Mangotsfield, co. Gloucester.

P.T. Bristol (114) 5m. NE b E. Pop. 3179.

A parish in the hundred of Barton Regis; living, a curacy in the archdeaconry of Gloucester and diocese of Bristol, of the certified value of 13l.; ann. val. P. R. 123; church ded. to St. James; patrons (1829) the Rev. T. Brooke, &c.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. II; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Emett Charles, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, quarryman, May 11, 1822.

Parish Registers

Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences 1689 to 1837

The following have been extracted from Allegations for Marriage Licences in the county of Hampshire. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.

Bompass, Charles-Carpenter, of Mangotsfield, co. Gloucester, Esq., b ., & Mary Steele Tomkins, of Broughton, sp., at B., 18 Dec., 1822. Joseph Tomkins, of the s., Esq., bondsman. Attestation of George Gwinnett Bompass, elder brother of C. C. Bompass.

Source: Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens

Parish Records

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Administration

County: Gloucestershire
Civil Registration District: Keynsham
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
Rural Deanery: Bristol
Poor Law Union: Keynsham
Hundred: Barton Regis
Province: Canterbury