Weston-on-Avon Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Weston-on-Avon is an Ancient Parish partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Warwickshire.
Other places in the parish include: Weston, Milcote, and Lower Milcote.
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1685
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1713
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
- Marston Sicca
- Clifford Chambers
- Quinton
- Luddington, Warwickshire
- Weston on Avon, Warwickshire
- Welford
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Weston-upon-Avon, a parish in the district of Stratford-on-Avon, and counties of Gloucester and Warwick; on the river Avon, and on the Honeybourne and Stratford railway, around Milcote r. station, and 3½ miles SW by S of Stratford-on-Avon. Post town, Welford, under Stratford-on-Avon.
Acres of the Gloucester portion, which is Weston tything, 1,060; of the Warwick portion, which is Milcote lordship, 480. Real property, £1,376 and £1,122. Pop, 80 and 57. Houses, 19 and 9. The manor belongs to Countess Delawarr.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £84. Patron, Countess Delawarr. The church is good.
There is an endowed school with £11 a year.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
WESTON upon AVON, a parish partly in the Alcester division of the hundred of BARLICHWAY, county of WARWICK, but chiefly in the upper division of the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 4½ miles (S. W. by W.) from Stratford on Avon, containing, with the hamlet of Milcott, 107 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king’s books at £7. 14. 7., endowed with £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Dorset. The church is dedicated to All Saints.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831
Parish Records
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Parish Registers
Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Bishop of London 1611 to 1828
The following have been extracted from Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Bishop of London 1611 to 1828
1628-9 Jan. 6 George Whitney, Gent., of Sabridgworth, Herts, Bachelor, 25, & Anne
Hall, of same. Spinster, 20, dau. of Stephen Hall, of Weston upon Avon, co. Gloucester, Clerk, who consents ; at St Martin’s, Ludgate.
Source: Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Bishop of London 1611 to 1828 extracted by (The Late) Col. Joseph Lemuel Chester, LL.D., D.C.L., and edited by Geo. J. Armytage, F.S.A.; London 1887
Marriages at Weston-on-Avon, 1690 to 1810
Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol IV. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900.
Author: Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts), 1853-1913, ed; Blagg, Thomas Matthews
Note. – The earliest Volume of Registers is of parchment, and measures fourteen by eight inches, bound in brown tooled leather, with clasps of brass. The entries are many of them of much interest, but entered indiscriminately in chronological order. The Benefice was held as an appendage to “ye Free Grammar School on Stratford-upon-Avon”, and the headmasters of that School were also Rectors of Weston. The second volume covers the period from 1755 to 1812. The Marriages have been extracted by the Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, M.A., Rector of Whitchurch, and are printed under his supervision, with the consent of the Rev. J. Davenport, M.A., Rector.
Transcriptions
Weston-on-Avon Marriages 1755 to 1810
Volume II.
William Adams & Martha Cottrel, 6 July 1755
Thomas Salmon & Rebecca Loader, lic., 25 Sept. 1755
William Coombes & Mary Worrall, 18 Nov. 1755
Thomas Walton & Anne Farmer, 21 Nov. 1755
Thomas Bromley & Sarah Roberts, 10 Jan. 1757
William Harris & Mary Ingram, of Weston, 6 June 1757
William Freeman & Elizabeth Godfrey, 24 Oct. 1757
Wm. Milward, of Welford, & Ann Edwards, lic., 26 Oct. 1757
William Watson & Elizabeth Gandy, 20 Nov. 1757
Thomas Parker & Elizabeth Ryland, 10 Dec. 1757
John Smith & Mary Garner, 12 Oct. 1760
William Cornmill, of Luddington, & Mary Waldgrave, of Upper Milcote, 14 Oct. 1760
George Palmer & Anne Keyt, 16 Oct. 1760
John Hands, of Preston-on-Stour, & Frances Blackwell, of Upper Milcote, 30 Nov. 1761
John Walton, of Welford, & Mary Shekel, 15 Apr. 1762
Wm. Greenall, of Lower Milcote, & Anne Newnham, of Welford, lic., 28 July 1762
Francis Field & Mary Randall, 14 Sept. 1762
Robert Fisher, of Kinwarton, co. Warr., & Susanna Edkins, lic., 10 May 1765
William Banning & Sarah Stanley, 24 June 1765
Richard Rouse, of Welford, & Mary London, 12 Oct. 1767
Henry Hicks, of Bretforton, & Elisabeth Prestbridge, 21 Dec. 1767
John Perks & Mary Symkins, alias Symcox, 23 Oct. 1770
William Adams & Rebecca Salmon, 20 Aug. 1771
George Palmer, of Welford, & Mary Hartwell, 15 Oct. 1771
Thomas Roberts & Hannah Freeman, 4 Dec. 1771
Thomas Nickols & Elizabeth Heritage, lic., 28 Nov. 1771
Henry Lee, of Kidderminster, & Phoebe Humphreys, of Milcot, lic. 31 Aug. 1771
Thomas Erock & Elizabeth Rousbon, 13 Oct. 1771
John Bennet, of Mickleton, & Susanna Hornby, 6 Jan. 1777
John Arnold, of St. Nicholas, Warwick, & Rebecca Salmon, lic., 3 Dec. 1777
Josiah Ballinger & Sarah Hornby, 23 June 1786
Thomas Harwood & Mary Adams, 23 June 1786
William Adams & Sarah Bridge, of Stratford, 23 July 1786
Joseph Marshall, of Saintbury, & Ann Ellings, 10 Apr. 1788
John Malins & Martha Weston, 21 June 1789
John Copestake, of Marston Sicca, & Anne Coplin, 11 Nov. 1790
Jas. Hammond, of Barston, Warr., & Eliz. Rous, 25 June 1792
Jas. Allen, of Inkborough, co. Warr., & Mary Spiers, w., 4 Dec. 1793
Richard Webb & Mary Proctor, 4 Dec. 1794
John Court & Annie Cotterell, lic., 29 Nov. 1795
Samuel Carter & Anne Hill, 11 Oct. 1798
Richard Wilkes & Elizabeth Knight, 18 Oct. 1798
John Hornby & Anne White, 26 Feb., 1799
William Thornton & Elizabeth Hunt, 31 Oct. 1799
Richard Webb, w., & Anne Harris, 30 June 1800
William Collett & Jane Beezeley, 17 Apr. 1802
William Taylor, of Welford, & Catherine Paxton, 2 June 1803
William Riley & Charlotte Joiner, 27 Sept. 1803
William Geadon & Elizabeth Cotterell, 13 June 1808
John Lancaster, of Loughborough, & Elizabeth Adkins, lic., 25 Nov. 1808
John Harwood & Susannah Roberts, 12 Nov. 1810
Note: The page is headed Lemington Parva Marriages but is situated in the middle of the pages for Weston-on-Avon and seems to continue without interruption from those pages headed Weston-on-Avon marriages. I have also checked the same time period for Lemington Parva and the original transcriptions are different. It is therefore most likely that these entries are indeed those of Weston-on-Avon and the heading on the page is simply a printing error.
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol IV. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 36, Essex Street, Strand, London. 1898.
Weston-on-Avon Marriages 1690 to 1754
Volume I.
John Allen, of Burmingham, & Anne Morris, of Stratford, 21 Apr. 1690
John Medes & Sarah Slatter, servant, 20 Oct. 1695
Will. Rowley, yeoman, & Elizabeth Cotterell, 5 Oct. 1700
Joseph Jelfes, of Welford, & Mary Whamsley, servant, 31 Dec. 1700
Robert Adams & Dorothy Hawks, of Aston, near Burmingham, 23 Sept. 1705
Benjamin Fincher, servant, & Anne Edkins, w., lic., 1 Jan. 1705
Thomas Weston, of Marston Sicca, & Mary Ladbrooke, 18 Apr. 1710
Richard Lundan & Elizabeth Mealing, 9 Oct. 1729
William Durham & Anne Bumpass, 30 May 1734
Mr. John Smith, of Admington, & Mrs. Mary Edden, of Milcote, lic., 22 July 1737
Thomas Smith & Mary Lee, of Preston, 26 Dec. 1737
William Mills & Mary Cooper, of Aston Cantlow, 5 Apr. 1738
Samuel Morris, of Clifford Chambers, & Mrs. Alice Edden, of Milcote, lic., 5 Apr. 1738
Valentine Stevens & Mary Cullby, 3 Oct. 1738
Edward Gibbs, Esq., & Agnes, dau. of Sir William Keyte, of Stratford-on-Avon, lic., 2 May 1739
Luke Walton, of Binton, & Sarah George, 28 Sept. 1739
William Shekel, jun., & Elizabeth Lees, 1 Mar. 1739
William Ainge, of Middle Littleton, & Mary Nichols, of Pebworth, lic., 25 May 1743
Thomas Langston, of Welford, & Penelope Cox, of Evesham, lic., 15 Sept. 1743
Richard Newry, & Hannah Chillingworth, of Bromsgrove, 15 Sept. 1743
Simon Edwards, of Westcrafts, & Ann Ward, 29 Sept. 1743
Edward Day, of Cherrington, & Mary Riland, w., lic., 21 Oct. 1743
John Green & Anne Taylor, of Clifford, 28 Mar. 1744
William Archer & Elizabeth Mander, 18 Apr. 1744
Mr. Robert Cooper, of Pebworth, & Miss Hannah Underhill, lic., 17 May 1744
John Days & Sarah Jones, of Preston-upon-Stour, lic., 20 May 1744
Henry Toms & Elizabeth Green, 20 Sept. 1745
John Symcocke & Anne Bennet, 15 Oct. 1745
Edward Bennet & Elizabeth Buggins, alias Burgoigne, 21 Oct. 1745
Richard Malins, of Thornton, & Catherine Wells, lic., 11 May 1746
Edward Sandbrook & Mary Stanley, 12 Oct. 1746
John Hyatt, of Toddington, & Anne Charlet, alias Charlwood, of Wincot, lic., 30 Nov. 1746
Thomas Sharpe, of Stratford-upon-Avon, & Anne Clarke, of King’s Clifford, lic., 12 May 1747
Raff Guest & Anne Walters, of Preston-upon-Stour, 2 Oct. 1747
Thomas Gregory & Elizabeth Nightingale, 21 Feb. 1748
John White, of Alscot, & Diana London, alias Jones, 22 Feb. 1748
John Wyatt & Elizabeth Lowe, lic., 21 July 1748
Richard Savage & Elizabeth Freston, of Pebworth, lic., 28 Dec. 1748
Brian Hathaway & Martha Purser, 2 July 1749
John Holyoake & Margaret Reeves, 14 Aug. 1749
Robert Smith & Anne Malines, of Preston, lic., 22 Oct. 1749
William Reeve, of Preston, & Catherine Alibone, 14 Dec. 1749
William Johnson & Mary Walter, 1 Jan. 1750
John Stanley & Elizabeth Shekell, 13 Feb. 1750
Richard Baker, of Sutton, & Mary Greenall, lic., 20 Apr. 1750
Alexander Hornby, of Welford, & Mary White of Long Marston, lic., 16 June 1751
Rev. John Loggin, of Sulgrave, & Elizabeth Hiend, of Quinton, lic., 18 June 1751
Wm. Walker, of Welford, & Anne Walton, lic., 9 Nov. 1751
Richard Harris, of Quinton, & Eliz. Harris, 30 Nov. 1752
Richard Freeman & Hannah Brittain, 6 Mar. 1753
Thomas dyer, of Preston, & Sarah Collett, 12 May 1753
John Keyte & Sarah Smith, w., b. of Preston-on-Stour, lic., 25 Dec. 1753
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. IV. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 36, Essex Street, Strand, London. 1898.
Directories
Weston-on-Avon Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856
Weston-on-Avon is a township, small village and parish, 6 ½ miles from Honeybourne station on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line of railway, 9 from Campden, 10 from Evesham, 4 from Stratford-on-Avon, and 30 from Gloucester, in the upper division of the Hundred of Kiftsgate, and bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol, and Union of Stratford-on-Avon.
The church is a stone building, having a tower, aisle, chancel, and 1 bell.
The living is a vicarage, of the value of £84 per year, in the gift of Earl Amherst; the Rev. James Davenport is the incumbent.
The acreage contained in the parish is 918 acres, and the rateable value £1,396. Earl Amherst is lord of the manor.
The population of the township, in 1851, was 115.
The tithing of Weston, with a population of 82, is in Gloucestershire; but that of Milcote has a population of 11 in Gloucestershire, and 22 in Worcestershire.
Davenport Rev. James, Vicarage
Traders.
Baldwin William, farmer
Chambers Betty (Mrs.), farmer
Hornby John, farmer
Tomes John, farmer
Letters are received through Welford. The nearest money order office is at Stratford.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Stratford on Avon
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
- Rural Deanery: Campden
- Poor Law Union: Stratford on Avon
- Hundred: Kiftsgate
- Province: Canterbury