Beverston Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Beverston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Alternative names: Beverstone
Parish church: St Mary
Parish registers begin: 1563
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BEVERSTONE, a village and a parish in Tetbury district, Gloucester. The village stands 1½ mile WNW of Tetbury, and 6½ SSW of Brimscomb r. station; and has a post office under Stroud.
The parish comprises 2,360 acres. Real property, £2,818. Pop., 170. Houses, 34. The property is not much divided.
A castle was erected here, in the time of Edward III., by Thomas, Lord Berkeley; was repeatedly besieged, and finally taken and burned, in the parliamentary wars; and is now a mass of ruin. Roofing-stone is quarried.
The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Kingscote, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £590. Patron, the Crown. The church is a small ancient edifice of nave and chancel, and has a stone pulpit.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Beverstone, 1 mile N.W. Tetbury. P. 178
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Parish Records
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Parish Registers
Beverston Marriages 1563 to 1836
The Marriage entries at Beverston, to 1836, are contained in six registers, containing the following years:-
No. 1. 1563 – 1709 – Vol. I
No. II 1710 – 1754 (part of) – Vol. I
No. III 1754 – 1781 – Vol. I. and Vol. II
No. IV. 1784 – 1804 – Vol. II
No. V. 1807 – 1812 – Vol. III
No. VI. 1813 – 1836 – Vol. IV
Three of these registers, originally separate, were bound together in one volume when Mr. Blount was Rector of Beverston, viz., I, II, and IV; so that the six are now contained in four volumes.
These entries have been transcribed by the Rev. W. Symonds, M.A., Vicar of Frocester, with the consent of the Rev. E. W. Evans, Rector of Beverston, by whose permission they are now published.
Transcriptions
Marriages at Beverston 1784 to 1804
Volume IV. – Register VI.
William Plomer, of Wotton-under-Edge, & Rebecca Panting, lic., 25 Jan. 1813
R. M. Cornwall, Minister.
Moses New, St. Mary, Devizes, Wilts, & Elizabeth Tilling, 20 Apr. 1813
John Norden & Phebe Hall, 5 Sept. 1813
George Emerson, farmer, of Shipton Moigne, & Mary Hart, lic., 13 Nov. 1813
Thomas Taylor & Sarah Pontin, 16 Apr. 1814
John Pearce & Ann Neale, 18 Apr. 1814
John Heaven, of Shipton Moigne, & Mary Graham, 29 Aug. 1814
Samuel Midwinter & Hester Pictor, 17 Oct. 1815
Lazarus Higgs & Rose Hannah Perrot, 27 Nov. 1815
Thomas Strange & Betty Underhill, 2 Dec. 1816
Job Randall & Jane Pearce, 17 June 1817
William Smart & Anna Hall, 19 Oct. 1817
William Hampton & Sabina Fowler, 29 July 1820
Thomas Smart, this p., & Rachel Longford, of Horseley, 4 Oct. 1821
James Hitchins & Anne Perrot, 27 May 1822
John Curtis, this p., & Sarah Perrot, of Tetbury, 26 Oct. 1822
George Walker & Anna Maria Griffin, 2 Dec. 1822
John Purnell, of Berkeley, & Jane Graham, 9 Nov. 1823
Thomas Bond & Hannah Evans, 18 Dec. 1823
Thomas Ludlow, this p., & Eliza Wear, of Tetbury, lic., 20 Sept. 1824
Thomas Purey & Ann Stiles, 11 Oct. 1824
Joseph Barrett & Rebecca York, 6 Nov. 1824
John Hall & Ann Cook, 5 Nov. 1825
William Evans & Elizabeth Tilling, 13 Nov. 1827
George Dixon, of Tetbury, & Jane Hart, lic., 5 Jan. 1829
William Coryndon Ebsworth, of Dursley, & Mary Ann Flight, lic., 14 Apr. 1829
Thomas Griffin & Sarah Griffin, 9 May 1829
Henry Perrott & Hannah Phelps, 14 Dec. 1829
William Sage & Ann Hiscott, w., lic., 2 Oct. 1830
Richard Harris Perrin & Elizabeth Bailey, 1 Oct. 1832
Thomas Packer, of Cheltenham, & Hannah Smart, lic., 16 Nov. 1832
John Ludlow & Ann Browning, 25 May 1833
John Frederick Hayward & Mary Ann Wigmore, of Horsley, lic., 24 Mar. 1835
Daniel Lewis, of Tetbury, & Ann Maria Smart, lic., 1 Oct. 1835
Moses Kinnett, w., of Crudwell, Wilts., & Elizabeth Graham, 19 May 1836
Samuel Frape & Hannah Lowe, 14 Nov. 1836
Signed: W. S. Panting, Curate.
[Here Vol. IV. ends].
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900.
Marriages at Beverston 1805 to 1812
Volume III. – Register V.
[Written on the fly leave of Vol. III: “Memorandum. – There were no Marriages at Beverstone in the years 1805, 1806, 1808, 1811.”]
William Hillier, of Shipton Moigne, & Jane Hart, 18 Apr. 1807
John Hood & Katherine Pearce, 18 May 1807
William Wickes, w., & Martha Lock, 17 Aug. 1807
John Ludlow & Anne Curtis, 19 Oct. 1807
William Nickson, of Tetbury, & Hannah Baldwyn, lic., 28 Feb. 1809
Thomas Perrin & Edith Harris, 29 Apr. 1809
William Giles & Catherine Fry, 13 Apr. 1810
William Powell & Sarah Pitford, lic., 8 Nov. 1810
Thomas Sparrow & Phebe Pearce, 6 Jan. 1812
John Roberts & Martha Higgs, 25 Feb. 1812
[The above 10 entries are signed, “W. S. Panting, Clerk.”]
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900.
Marriages at Beverston 1813 to 1836
Register IV.
William Tanner, of Cherrington, & Mary Hayward, 21 Oct. 1784
Robert Large, of Newton, Somerset, & Anne Davies, 31 July 1786
William Dicks, of Didmarton, & Hester England, lic., 11 Oct. 1786
Thomas Townsend & Elizabeth Naish, 19 Nov. 1786
Henry Hall & Hannah Stockwell, 14 July 1787
John Green, * of Kelston, Somerset, & Sarah Hornidge, lic., 11 Mar. 1788
Stephen Strong & Betty Lawrence, 24 Apr. 1789
Moses Smart & Anne Ball, 7 June 1789
William Farmils, of Horsley, & Mary Ball, 6 July 1789
John Short, of Tetbury, & Mary Haydon, 15 Oct. 1789
James Flower & Susannah Millington, 18 Oct. 1789
John Perrot & Hannah Davies, 7 Jan. 1790
Robert Rogers, of Horseley, & Mary Hayward, lic., 14 Apr. 1791
[Among the witnesses are S. Hayward, and D.S. Hayward].
John Hemming & Hester Harris, 12 Feb. 1792
William Bennet & Anne Ludlow, 8 Apr. 1792
John Giles & Rebecca Barrett, 1 May 1792
Thomas Howell & Elizabeth Long, 9 Oct. 1794
Thomas Maller, of this p., & Mary Barrett of Tetbury, 12 Nov. 1796
Charles Swain & Susanna Sutton, 7 Nov. 1797
Thomas Bond & Martha Stockwell, 25 Dec. 1797
John Beak, of Twerton, Somerset, & Sarah Hayward, lic., 15 Mar. 1798
Signed: George Hayward, Curate.
Samuel Always, of this p., & Alice Tugwell, of Tetbury, 19 June 1799
Richard Evans & Hannah Harris, 15 June 1800
Thomas Walker & Sarah Perryn, 22 Nov. 1802
James Westmancote & Mary Frowd, 12 Oct. 1803
John Low & Elizabeth Pearce, 18 Nov. 1804
Signed: W. D. Tattershall, Minister.
[Here this Register ends.]
* He was curate of Kelston, second son of Rev. Thomas Green, rector there, and was born 6 Dec., 1760. See Misc. Gen. & Her., 478, II, N.S.
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900.
Gloucestershire Historical Directories
Directory Transcriptions
Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863
Beverstone is a parish and village, 9 miles south west from Tetbury road station, 25 north from Bath, 21 south from Gloucester, and 102 from London, in Berkeley hundred, Tetbury union, Malmsbury county court district, West Gloucestershire, rural deanery of Dursley, Gloucester archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is situated 2 miles west from the Bath and Cirencester road.
The church of St. Andrew, a stone building in the Early English style, has nave and chancel; on the tower is a basrelief of St. Andrew, the patron saint, with his cross.
The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Kingscote annexed, joint annual value £590, with residence, in the gift of the Crown; the Rev. Alan G. Cornwall, A.M., of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the incumbent; the Rev. Edward McLorg, B.A., of Queen’s College, Cambridge, is the curate.
There is a mixed National school.
The population in 1861 was 170 ; the acreage is 2,112.
The soil is sandy and clayey; the subsoil is principally oolite.
R.S.Holford, Esq., M.P., is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The Castle is in a dilapidated condition; it is now in the possession of R. S. Holford, Esq.
Babdown and Nesley are farms in the parish.
Parish Clerk, John Ludlow.
McLorg Rev. Edward, B.A
Commercial.
Barber George, farmer, Babdown
Lewis Daniel, carpenter & builder
Kilmister Robert, farmer, Castle farm
Long Robert, farmer, Nesley
Mallar Thomas & James, carpenters & wheelwrights
Mallar Richd. carpenter & wheelwright
Ratcliffe Edwin, farmer. Park farm
Simpkins Thomas, blacksmith
Post Office. — Thomas Simpkins, receiver. Letters received through Stroud at 11.30 a.m.; dispatched 3.25 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Tetbury.
National School (mixed), Miss Lucy Kennington, mistress.
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.
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Tetbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Dursley
- Poor Law Union: Tetbury
- Hundred: Berkeley (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury