Cromhall, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Cromhall is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Cromhall Abbotts, Cromhall Lygon.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1653

Nonconformists include: Calvinistic Methodist and Independent/Congregational.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CROMHALL-ABBOTS, a parish in Thornbury district, Gloucester; 1½ mile NW of Wickwar r. station, and 3½ E of Thornbury. It has a post office, of the name of Cromhall, under Chippenham; and it includes the tything of Cromhall-Lygon. Acres, 2,579. Real property, £5,074. Pop., 681. Houses, 156. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine in Bristol; and the estate of Cromhall-Lygon belonged to the Lygons. Coal and lime-stone are found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of G. and Bristol. Value, £468. Patron, Oriel College, Oxford. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, two public schools, and charities £5.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Cromhall-Abbotts with Cromhall-Lygon, 2 m. Wickwar. P. 732.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Gloucestershire, Cromhall-Abbots – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Cromhall-Abbots, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Gloucestershire, Cromhall-Abbots – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Cromhall, 1571-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Cromhall (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Thornbury, Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Church records, 1841-1907
Author: Methodist Church. Thornbury Circuit (Thornbury, Gloucestershire); Downend Circuit (Gloucestershire : Wesleyan Methodist); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Cromhall-Abbots – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Cromhall, Gloucs., Eng

Parish register printouts of Cromhall, Gloucester, England ; marriages, 1752-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Cromhall, Gloucester, England, christenings, 1571-1751
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

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