Doynton, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Doynton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire
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Parish registers begin: 1566
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DOYNTON, a parish in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester; on the river Boyd, near the boundaries with Wilts and Somerset, 4 miles N of Twerton r. station, and 5 NNW of Bath. Post town, Bitton, under Bristol.
Acres, 1,703. Real property, £4,007. Pop., 448. Houses, 85. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £433. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old, but good; shows no regard to style; and has a square tower.
A chapel, in connexion with the Bristol Itinerant Society, was founded in 1861.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Doynton, a parish in Langley and Swinehead hundred, upper division, union of Chipping-Sodbury, county of Gloucester; 5½ miles south of Chipping-Sodbury, on a branch of the Avon.
Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. and dio. of Gloucester, now in the archd. of Bristol and dio. of Gloucester and Bristol; rated at £14 11s. 3d.; nett income £433. Tithes commuted in 1839; aggregate amount £340 6s. Patron, tbe Lord-chancellor.
Here is a day and Sunday school endowed with £14 per annum. Other charities, £8 5s. per annum. Acres 1,720. Houses 81. A.P. £3,670. Pop., in 1801, 303; in 1831, 448. Poor rates, in 1837, £191.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Doynton, 3 miles N.W. Marshfield. P. 529
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Parish Registers
Marriage Licences and Allegations
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Burcombe, Daniel, of Old Sodbury, co. Gloucester, gent., widower, about 40, and Mrs. Mary Ridley, of Dointon, said county, spinster, 30 and upwards, and at own disposal — at Dointon aforesaid. 21 June, 1675. V.
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Chipping Sodbury
- 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: Chipping Sodbury
- Hundred: Langley and Swinehead
- Province: Canterbury