Beverston Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Beverston or Beverstone is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Alternative names: Beverstone

Parish church: St Mary

Parish registers begin: 1563

Adjacent Parishes

Beverstone Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Beverstone, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1563-1812

Kingscote, Beverston, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1578-1812

Beverstone, 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.

Beverstone, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938

Beverston Marriages 1563 to 1836 Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol 6. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Marriages at Beverston 1784 to 1836 – Transcriptions

Death and Burial Records

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

Beverstone, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1988

Beverston Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Beverston. 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 Sept. 13. John Keyse, Minchinhampton, mercer, 28, and Mary Suring, Nettleton, Wilts., 23 : at Little Badmanton, Beverston or Leighterton.

1680 Sept. 25. John Cleaver, Tetbury, carrier, 24, and Mary Browne, Tetbury, 22 : Bdm. George x Cleaver, Tetbury, carrier: at Tetbury, Beverston, Shipton Moigne or Cherrington.

1692 June 11 John Shipway, Beverston, 29, and Katherine Deane, Minchinhampton, 20

1692 July 1 John Bance, East Challow, Berks., 40, W., and Elizabeth Shipway, Beverston, 27.

1695/6 Mar. 9 Thomas Long, Oldpin, 25, and Briggett Weight, Kingscott p. Beverstone, 29.

16978 Mar. 21 James Cornelius, Beverston, 27, clerk, and Sybill Needham, Beverston, 22.

Historical 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.

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].

Maps

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

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