Great Witcombe, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Great Witcombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Alternative names: Great Witcomb, Witcombe, Whitcombe, Witcombe Magna
Parish church: St. Mary
Parish registers begin: 1749
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WHITCOMBE (Great), a parish in Cheltenham district, Gloucester; 5½ miles SSW of Cheltenham r. station. It has a post-office under Gloucester.
Acres, 918. Real property, £1,629. Pop., 165. Houses, 37. The manor, with W. House, belongs to Lady Cromie. Roman pavements, baths, coins, and indications of a villa, were found in 1819.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £100. Patron, Lady Cromwell. The church is old.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WITCOMB MAGNA (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Cheltenham, Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King’s-Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 3½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Painswick; containing 179 inhabitants. The parish is situated among the Cotswold hills, and contains 918 acres.
The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king’s books at £4. 6. 8., and in the gift of Trustees: the tithes have been commuted for £132, and the glebe comprises one acre.
Near the foot of Cooper’s Hill, in a delightful part of the parish, the remains of a Roman villa, with a sacrarium, baths, &c, were discovered in 1818. The walls, to the height of nearly six feet, are still remaining, some of them covered with stucco painted in panels of different colours, elegantly ornamented with ivy leaves. Several of the apartments were paved with red-sandstone, others with beautiful mosaic work, and in many of them have been found fragments of columns, and cornices of white marble, numerous coins, domestic utensils, and other relics.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Registers
Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences 1689 to 1837
The following have been extracted from Allegations for Marriage Licences in the county of Hampshire. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.
Hicks, William, of Whitcombe-Magna , co. Gloucester, & Anne – Rachel Chute, of Sherborne St. John, at S. St. J., 4 Oct., 1793.
Source: Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens
Parish Records
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Poll Books
Great Witcombe Poll Book 1834 – Google Books
Directories
Witcombe or Whitcombe or Witcombe Magna Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856
Witcombe, or Whitcombe, or Witcombe Magna, is a township, parish and village, 5 miles south-east from Gloucester railway station, 6 south from Cheltenham, and 5 north from Painswick, in Dudstone and King’s Barton Hundred, Cheltenham Union, Gloucester Archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is seated on the road from Gloucester to Cirencester.
The church is an old building; has tower, aisle, porch, chancel, 2 bells and font. The living is a rectory, worth £100 yearly, with residence, in the gift of Lady Cromie; Rev. John Rawlin Trye is the incumbent. There is a mixed school. There are the remains of a Roman villa in this parish. Witcombe Park, the seat of Lady Cromie, is a fine old mansion; the park contains about 100 acres. The soil is loamy; the subsoil clayey. Lady Cromie is lady of the manor, and chief landowner. The population is 167, and the number of acres, 918.
Woodlands, Nash’s, Birdlip, Capel’s, and Upper Farm, are places here.
Cromie Lady, Witcomb park
Trye Rev. John Rawlin, Rectory
Traders
Bubb William, farmer, Witcomb farm
Cook Henry, tailor
Gale John, farmer, Woodlands
Greenland George, shopkeeper
Haiden Giles, parish clerk
Hannis Ann (Mrs.), schoolmistress
Holbert John, builder
Holbert Joseph, farmer, Nash’s farm
Pinching Wm., ‘Black Horse’, Birdlip
Smith Edwin, blacksmith
Tombs Isaac, farmer, Capel’s farm
Tombs Job, farmer, Upper farm
Weager Joseph, ‘White Horse’
Letters through Gloucester, which is also the nearest money order office.
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.
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Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Cheltenham
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
- Rural Deanery: Gloucester
- Poor Law Union: Cheltenham
- Hundred: Dudstone and King’s Barton
- Province: Canterbury