Ampney St Peter Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Ampney St Peter an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Alternative names: Easington or Eastington

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin: 1599

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Ampney Crucis
• Ampney St Mary
• Driffield
• Harnhill
• Poulton

Ampney St Peter Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers for Ampney St Peter.

Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1599-1812

Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1913

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938

Death and Burial Records

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

Ampney St Peter, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1988

Ampney St Peter Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Ampney St Peter. The index includes information from Gloucestershire Marriage Allegations 1680-1700.

Marriage Licences and Allegations

The following have been extracted from Gloucestershire Marriage Allegations 1680-1700.

1680 Oct. 30. Edward Rodway, Hawksbury, yeom., 24, and Anne King, Eastington, 21 : at Eastington, Hawksbury or the College.

1691/2 Jan. 16 Thomas x Browning, Estinton [Eastington], 27, and Edeth French, Froster, 30, W.

1692 June 13 Joseph Clutterbuck, Easton [? Eastington], 24, and Ann Andrews, Standish, 23: Bdm. Richard Andrewes, Standish.

1692 May 7 Wm. Goodwyn, Eastington, and Abigail’ Rose, Eastington.

1693 Sept. 20, 1693. Joh’em Wms, Holy Rood Ampny, and Mariam Carr, Eastington.

1693/4 Dec. 30 James Budding, Eastington, 32, and Ann Clissold, Eastington, 23.

1693/4 Jan. 31 William Browning, Frampton upon Seveme, 32, W., and Sarah Browning, Easton [? Eastington]. [Not completed, and in another hand are the words “Denyed because was his Brothers Wife”].

1694 May 28 Edward Stephens, Eastington, 22, and Katherine Truman, Westerleigh, 18. Wit. Tho. Knight, Eastington.

1694 June 14 William Hopton, Eastington, 22, and Hester Hayward, Wheatenhurst, 23.

1695 July 6 Walter Bishopp, Eastington, 24, and Susannah Woodward, Camm, 23.

1695 Dec. 9 Richard x Smith, Eastington, 50, W., and Sarah Browning, Frowcester, 40.

1695/6 Feb. 8 William Holliday [signs Halliday], Rodborrough, 24, and Mary Blanch, Eastington, 22.

1696 Aug. 11 Jonathan Woodward, Cam, 30, and Elizabeth Drew, Oldbury on the Hill, 25: Bdm. Walter Bishopp, Estington.

1697 Oct. 19 Rainsford Brain, Eastington, 21, and Ann Craft, Eastington, “Joseph Craft the father made oath.”

1698 May 7 James Budding, Estington, 35, W., and Bethia Leighton, El­more, 24.

1698 June 10 Edmond Willmott, Eastington, 46, W., and Martha Stephens, Quedgly, 32.

Historical Directory Transcriptions

Ampney St Peter, Easington or Eastington Morris Gloucestershire Directory 1876

Ampney Saint Peter, Easington (or Eastington) is a parish in Cirencester union, containing by the census of 1861, 188, and in 1871, 185 inhabitants, and 540 acres; in the deanery of Cirencester, archdeaconry of Bristol, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, hundred of Crowthorne and Minety. East Gloucestershire; 3 ½ miles east from Cirencester and 5 west from Fairford. The living is a vicarage, valued at £60 per annum, in the incumbency of the Rev. Edward Andrew Daubeny, M.A. The church is a small edifice, dedicated to St. Peter, consisting of nave, chancel, and a low tower with two bells. Mr. Stevens is the chief landowner. The rateable value of this parish is £1058.

Trades and Professions

Barnfield Philip, beer retailer

Bee Mrs. Elizabeth, “Red Lion”

Day Charles, beer retailer

Newman Mrs. John, farmer

Ricketts Thomas, pig dealer

Smith Daniel, farmer

Spencer John, farmer

Spencer Samuel, carpenter

Stevens Charles Thomas, farmer

Stratford Richard, parish clerk

Taylor Edwin, baker and shopkeeper

Cirencester is the post town and nearest money order office

Source: Morris & Co.’s commercial Directory & Gazetteer of Gloucestershire with Bristol and Monmouth. Second Edition. Hounds Gate, Nottingham. 1876.

Ampney St Peter Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863

Ampney St Peter, Easington, or Eastington, is a village and parish, 3½ miles east from Cirencester and 5 from Fairford, in the hundred of Crowthorne and Minety, Cirencester union, county court district and rural deanery, Bristol archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric, East Gloucestershire. The church of St. Peter is a small stone building in the Transition Norman style; it has a low tower with 2 bells, nave, chancel, porch, and a stone font. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £50 per annum; the Rev. Edward Andrew Daubeny, M.A., is the incumbent. In the parish are the remains of a Roman encampment, of irregular form, called Ranbury Ring.

The population in 1861 was 188; the acreage is 533 acres. The soil is clay, with gravelly subsoil. Mrs. Stevens is the principal landowner.

Tolland Quarry is 1 mile north-east; Tiltrip’s End, three quarters of a mile north.

Parish Clerk, William Hill.

Berry John, beer retailer

Chapman Edwin, farmer

Humpries Henry, Red Lion

Irelnnd William, beer retailer

Ricketts Thomas, pig dealer

Spencer John, farmer

Spencer Samuel, carpenter

Spencer William, baker

Stevens Mrs. farmer

Taylor Edwin, baker & shopkeeper

Letters through Cirencester, which is the nearest money order office.

Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol, Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1863.

Parish History

Ampney St Peter The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

AMPNEY-ST. PETER, or Easington, a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester; contiguous to Ampney St. Mary, 4½ miles E of Cirencester r. station. Post town, Cirencester. Acres, 533. Real property, £1,291. Pop., 188. Houses, 49. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £60. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is good.

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

Ampney St Peter The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840

Ampney (St. Peter), or Easington, a parish in the same union and hundred as Ampney St. Mary, situated to the south of Ampney St. Mary. Living, a perpetual curacy, formerly in the archd. of Gloucester, now in that of Bristol, and in the dio. of Gloucester und Bristol; rated at £4 3s. 4d., in the parliamentary returns at £25; endowed with £1,600 royal bounty; gross income £60. There is a small daily school here. Pop., in 1801, 162; in 1831, 180 Houses 43. Acres 860. A. P. £948. Poor rates, in 1837, £60.

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

Ampney St Peter Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Ampney, St. Peter, co. Gloucester.

P.T. Cirencester (89) 4½ m. S b E. Pop. 177.

A parish in the hundred of Crowthorne and Minety; living, a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester; certified value 4l. 3s. 4d.; ann. val. P. R. 25l.; patron, the Bishop of Gloucester.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

• County: Gloucestershire
• Civil Registration District: Cirencester
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
• Rural Deanery: Cirencester
• Poor Law Union: Cirencester
• Hundred: Crowthorne and Minety
• Province: Canterbury