Owlpen Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Owlpen is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Gloucestershire, created from a chapelry in Newington Bagpath Ancient Parish.
Alternative Names: Old pen, Oldpen
Parish Church: Holy Cross
Parish registers begin: 1677
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Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870
Owlpen, or Old pen, a parish in Dursley district, Gloucester; under the Cotswolds, 2¾ miles E of Dursley r. station. Post-town, Dursley.
Acres, 720. Real property, £1,034. Pop., 91. Houses, 24. The property belonged anciently to the Earls of Berkeley; was given, by one of them, to the Owlpens; passed by marriage, first to the Daunts, next to the Stoughtons; and belongs now to T. A. Stoughton, Esq. O. Park is Mr. S.’s seat. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Newington-Bagpath, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, The church was rebuilt in 1828; and is in the early English style, with a tower.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
Owlpen, a parish, in the union of Dursley, Upper division of the hundred of Berkeley, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 3¾ miles (E.) from Dursley; containing 94 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the rectory of Newington-Bagpath: the tithes have been commuted for £149. 16., and the glebe comprises two acres. The church was erected in 1830, principally at the cost of the Rev. Alan Gardner Cornwall; in the interior are some memorials of the very ancient family of Danet, who formerly resided here, and were of considerable eminence.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Marriages at Owlpen 1687 to 1897
Note: the marriages contained in volume 1 are from 1687 to 1837. Volume 2 contains the marriages from 1837 to 1897.
Transcriptions
NOTE. – The Parliamentary return states that the earliest Register commences in 1755. This is incorrect. The first Register Book in which Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials follow in fairly regular chronological order, consists of 24 parchment leaves. 5 ¾ by 11 ¼, of which the 13th has been mutilated, and entries between March and September, 1756 are perhaps missing.
The second leaf is inscribed “A Register Booke for the parish of Woolpen [sic], beginning this year 1686/7”; but there are on the other side five Baptisms extending over the period 29 May 1677 to 9 April 1685. On the succeeding leaf is the entry:- “Marriages none this year 1686/7,” and though the Register continues without gaps, no Marriages appear until that of Edward Veriby in 1697.
This transcript has been made by the editor and the Rev. W. B. Benison, Rector of Uley with Owlpen, by whose permission it is now printed.
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Owlpen Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856
Oldpen, or Owlpen, is a township, parish, and village, 3 ½ miles from the Frocester station, and 5 ½ from the Berkeley road station on the Bristol and Gloucester railway, and 3 from Dursley, in the Berkeley Hundred, Union and archdeaconry of Dursley, and bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is a stone building, in the early English style, having a tower, aisle, and 1 bell. The living is a rectory, worth £150 per annum; the Rev. Allen G. Cornwall is the present incumbent.
The population, in 1851, was 82; and the acreage in the parish is 720. T. A. Stoughton, Esq., is lord of the manor, and owner and occupier. The Owlpen property is one of the oldest in the county; an original grant to the Owlpens by Earls Berkeley. The Daunts, a family of eminence in England and Ireland, acquired the property by marriage with the heiress of Owlpen, and the Stoughtons, and ancient Irish family, by the heiress of the Daunts.
Stoughton Thomas Anthony, esq., Owlpen park
Taylor William, agent to Thomas Anthony Stoughton, esq. Court house
Letters are received through Dursley, which is the nearest money order office.
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.
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Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Dursley
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Dursley
- Poor Law Union: Dursley
- Hundred: Berkeley (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury