Marston Meysey, Wiltshire Family History Guide
Marston Meysey is an Ancient Parish in the county of Wiltshire.
Alternative names: Marston Maisey
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1742
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1578; 1613
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire
- Castle Eaton
- Kempsford, Gloucestershire
- Down Ampney, Gloucestershire
- Eisey
- Fairford, Gloucestershire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MARSTON-MAISEY, a parish in the district of Cirencester and county of Wilts; adjacent to the Thames and Severn canal, and nearly surrounded by Gloucestershire, 3 miles NE by N of Cricklade, and 6¼ NNE of Purton r. station. Post town, Cricklade.
Acres, 1,276. Real property, with Castle-Eaton and Lushill, £6,171. Rated property of M. M. alone, £1,791. Pop., 215. Houses, 52. The property is mnch subdivided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Valne, £76. Patron, the Rector of Hampton Maisey. The church is good; and there is a slightly endowed national school.
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
Marston-Maisey, 3 m. N.E. Cricklade. P. 245
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Wiltshire
- Civil Registration District: Cirencester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Fairford
- Poor Law Union: Cirencester
- Hundred: Highworth, Cricklade and Staple
- Province: Canterbury