Filton, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Filton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Alternative names: Fylton
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1654
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FILTON, or Fylton, a parish in Clifton district, Gloucester; on the Bristol and South Wales Union railway, 5 miles N of Bristol. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Bristol.
Acres, 1,030. Real property, £2,631. Pop., 317. Houses, 58. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Fyltons.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £242. Patron, R. Poulden, Esq. The church, with the exception of the tower, was recently rebuilt; and the tower contains a stone coffin, which was discovered at the re-building. Charities, £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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.
Williams John A., Filton, Gloucestershire, dealer and chapman, July 28. 1829.
Parish Records
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Parish Registers
Marriages at Filton 1653-1812
Marriages at Filton 1653-1812 Gloucestershire Parish Registers – Marriages volume 13 – ukga.org
Transcriptions
Filton Marriages 1758 to 1812
Volume II.
This printed “Register Book, for the use of all Churches and Chapels. London: Printed in the year MDCCLIV [1754].”
[In this book the Banns are printed above most Marriages, and filled up first. This gives greater certainty to the names, as they are written three times over.]
[All persons are of this parish unless otherwise stated.]
David Morgan & Hester Gosse, banns only, Aug. 28, Sept. 4 and 11, 1757
John Taylor, labourer, & Margaret Bithel, s., 6 Jan. 1758
William Bishop, labourer, & Susannah Organ, s., 4 Apr. 1758
Isaac Morgan, of St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol, & Anna Wade, s., 7 Oct. 1758
James Beacham, of Barrington, Somerset, & Eleanor Millett, s., lic., 10 May 1759
William Williamson, labourer, & Mary Morgan, s., 2 Oct. 1759
Robert Cook, labourer, & Elizabeth Webb, s., 21 July 1760
Thomas Nutt, of Stoke Gifford, Glos., & Ann Kinson, s., 12 Apr. 1762
William Osborne, of Thornbury, & Hester Millett, s., lic., 5 June 1763
Robert Screen, labourer, & Mary Tiler, s., 19 July 1763
Thomas Ocford & Susannah Bishop, w., 24 Apr. 1768
John Owen, yeoman, & Sarah Hancock, s., lic., 3 Aug. 1768
John Gillard, labourer, & Elizabeth Ware, s., 11 Apr. 1769
Thomas Shepherd, of Almondsbury, Glos., & Martha Hancock, lic., 8 Nov. 1772
John Watkins, labourer, & Sarah Spender, s., lic., 6 May 1773
William Brown, of St. James’, Bristol, & Ann West, s., 13 Oct. 1774
Edward Dyer, yeoman, & Mary Turner, w., lic., 22 Sept. 1776
John West, labourer, & Hester Werrett, s., 29 Sept. 1776
Thomas Seborne [or Seabourn], yeoman, & Mary Hancock, s., lic., 21 Nov. 1776
Philip Beard, yeoman, & Susannah Hancock, s. lic., 4 Mar. 1777
William Williams, labourer, & Elizabeth Fowler, s., 1 June 1777
David Jenkins & Ann Crow, s., lic., 10 Aug. 1778
Richard Beard & Ann Avens, of Backwell, Somerset, lic., 1 Jan. 1779
Daniel Millett, yeoman, & Eleanor Millett, of Elverton, s., lic., 22 Apr. 1779
William Davies & Mary West, 18 May 1779
Isaac Close, of Stoke Gifford, & Hannah Rugg, 23 Dec. 1779
Robert McGhie & Elizabeth Pomeroy Bruce, 24 Jan. 1780
John Gardenar & Sarah Davies, 18 Dec. 1780
Charles Weymouth, yeoman, & Mary Beard, s., lic., 19 Dec. 1780
John Mountjoy, yeoman, & Mary Pine, s., 11 Oct. 1784
[The printed form here changes for two pages, there being no form for Banns to be first inserted.]
William Cooke & Hannah Durbin, 17 Jan. 1785
John Richards & Elizabeth Willett, 11 Sept. 1786
Obadiah Price & Hannah Newton, of St. James’, Bristol, lic., 7 Mar. 1787
Henry Slade, of St. Philip and St. Jacob, Bristol, & Betty Turner, lic., 25 May 1789
Peter Evans & Joanna Wilcox, 7 Sept. 1789
John Iles & Ruth Webb, 27 Mar. 1791
John Gowers, Westbury, Glos., & Sarah Owen, 15 Apr. 1792
Joseph Reeves & Mary Russ, 9 June 1793
Lewis Williams & Johanna Driver, s., 7 Sept. 1793
William Clements & Elizabeth Childs, 25 Jan. 1794
Thomas James, yeoman, & Winifred Holliday, 21 Jan. 1798
Brooke Smith, gent., of All Saints, Bristol, & Hannah Edye, lic., 20 Aug. 1798
Stephen Brooks, of Old Sodbury, Glos., & Sarah Owen, 2 Mar. 1801
Edward Upton, of Winterbourn, Glos., & Ann Owen, 2 Apr. 1804
Daniel Price & Martha Tresher, 22 Dec. 1806
John Pullen, Thornbury, Glos., & Rebecca Brown, lic., 30 May 1807
Thomas Close & Sarah Griffin, 25 Mar. 1811
Joseph Parry & Anne James, 25 Mar. 1811
[The only occasion in this Register on which two marriages took place at the same time. The witnesses in each case were, Elizabeth Gayner, Hannah Gayner, and John Phillimore.]
Charles Maxfield, St. James’, Bristol, & Hester Brown Daw, lic., 22 Apr. 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: Clifton
- 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: Clifton
- Hundred: Berkeley (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury