Alstone Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Alstone is part of the parish of Overbury with Alstone, Teddington and Little Washbourne partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Worcestershire. The Gloucestershire parts are Alstone and Little Washbourne. Alstone is a chapel of ease to Overbury.

Alstone was transferred to Gloucestershire in 1844 by the Act of the 7th and 8th Vic. Chap. 61.

Alternative names: Alston, Aulston

Church: St. Margaret

Parish registers begin: 1546

Adjacent Parishes

• Great Washbourne
• Oxenton
• Alderton
• Beckford

Alstone Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Alstone, Worcestershire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Alstone, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Alstone, Worcestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Alstone Marriages 1550 to 1805

The Alstone Marriages 1550 to 1805 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Marriages at Alstone 1550 to 1805 Worcestershire Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 1 Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and W. F. Carter.

Alstone Marriages 1550 to 1805 – Transcriptions (Parishmouse)

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Alstone, Worcestershire Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Alstone Parish Records

An Index of records for people from Alstone Gloucestershire. The index includes information from A Calendar of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester v.2 1660-1800.

Wills

The records below have been extracted from the book A Calendar of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester v.2 1660-1800.

1783 Rogers, Elizabeth, Alstone

1779 Cook, Christopher, Alstone

1774 Neale, Thomas, Alstone

1762 Ashmead, William, Alstone

1743 Cooke, John, Alstone

1739 Roberts, Elizabeth, Alstone

1730 Stephens, John, Alstone

1730 Attwood, James, Alstone

1729 Skay, John, Alstone

1728 Theyer, William, Alston

1728 Sturmy, Thomas, Alstone

1727 Cleevely, Mary, Alstone

1726 George, Francis, Alstone

1726 Church, Samuel, Alstone

1725 Stephens, William, Alstone

1725 Hyett, Richard, Alstone

1724 Toney, John, Alstone

1722 Kight, Henry, Alstone

1722 Cleevely, Francis, Alstone

1720 Stephens, John, Alstone

1719 Packer, Thomas, Alstone

1717 Stone, Anthony, Alstone

1716 Roberts, William, Alstone

1715 Church, Samuel, Alstone

1714 Wills, Francis, Alstone

1707 Roberts, William, Alstone

1703 Strowd, John, Alstone

1703 Pates, Frances, Alstone

1702 Clarke, John, Alstone

1701 Strowd, Thomas, Alstone

1689 Stephens, John, Alstone

1688 Pates, John, Alstone

1669 Strowde. Thomas, Alstone

1662 Packer, Thomas, Alston

1661 Combe, William, Alstone [torn]

Alstone Historical Directory Transcriptions

Alstone Morris Gloucestershire Directory 1876

Alstone Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863

Alstone Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856

Alstone Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820

Alstone Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Alstone, a chapelry in Overbury parish, Gloucester; 3½ miles ESE of Tewkesbury r. station, and 4½ NW of Winchcomb. Post Town, Tewkesbury. Acres, with Little Washbourne, 1,060. Rated property, £690. Pop., 96. Houses, 20. The property is divided among a few. The living is a curacy, united to the vicarage of Overbury, in the diocese of Worcester. The church is very dilapidated.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Alstone, a chapelry, in the parish of Overbury, Middle division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, Pershore and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 6½ miles (E. by S.) from Tewkesbury; containing 89 inhabitants. It forms part of a detached portion of the parish, surrounded on all sides, except the north-west by the county of Gloucester. The chapel is dedicated to St. Margaret.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840

Alstone, a chapelry in the parish of Overbury, union of Winchcomb, Worcestershire; 5 miles east by south from Tewkesbury. Pop., in 1801, 83; in 1831, 78. Houses 18. A. P. £892. Poor rates, in 1837, £56.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.

Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822

Alstone – a hamlet and chapelry to the township of Teddington, in the parish of Overbury, hundred of Oswaldslow, middle division, 7 miles S.E. from Tewkesbury, and 101 from London; containing 18 inhabited houses, isolated in Gloucestershire. Population, 1801, 83 – 1811, 83 – 1821, 79.

Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.

Administration

• County: Gloucestershire
• Civil Registration District: Winchcombe
• Probate Court:
• Diocese: Worcester
• Rural Deanery: Pershore
• Poor Law Union: Tewkesbury
• Hundred: Kiftsgate
• Province: Canterbury
• County Court District: Winchcombe