Boddington Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Boddington a chapelry of Staverton Ancient Parish in Gloucestershire.
The parish includes: Barrow.
Parish church: St. Mary Magdalene
Parish registers begin: 1652
Nonconformists include: Protestant Dissenters and Society of Friends/Quaker.
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Boddington Parish Registers
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Boddington, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1612-1812
Boddington, 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.
Boddington, 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.
Boddington, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1988
Boddington Parish Records
An index of parish records of people from Boddington. 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.
1691 Apr. 25 Edmund Drinkwater, Boddington, 30, and Ann Shipton, Boddington, 21.
1691 Nov. 21 William Lawrence, Staverton als. Starton, 30, and Ann Cooke, Boddington, 21.
1692 July 30 John x Edwards, Deerehurst, 29, and Alice Garaway, Boddington, 28.
1692 Sept. 24 Giles x Smart, Churcham, 24, and Mary Roberts, Bodington, 26.
1692 Oct. 31. Thomas Rogers, Gloucester city, 24, and Mary Buckle, Boddington, 23.
1693/4 Jan. 10 John x Ward, Boddington, 24, and Ann Stone, B’pps Cleeve, 19.
1694 June 21 John Burge, Bodgington, 35, W., and Elizabeth Wells, Cyrencester, 30, W
1694 Nov. 10 Thomas x Compton, Boddington, 47, W., and Ann Stroude, Staverton, 30.
1695 May 14 Thomas x Brewer, Boddington, 42, W., and Hannah Lane, Boddington, 23.
1695 June 8 Thomas Ham, Bodington, 23, and Mary Marten, Cheltenham, 22.
1696 Oct. 17 Edward Roberts, Breedons Hardwick, Worcs., 24, and Sarah Webb, Boddington, 24. “Mr. Abbotts had noe Licence.”
1697 Apr. 24 William x Jones, the Leigh, 30, W., and Alice Tovey, Boddington, 22.
1697/8 Feb. 11 William x Weaver, Boddington, 24, and Joane Williamson, 25, w.
1697/8 Feb. 18 Henry x Peirce, Boddington, 28, W., and Sarah Drinkewater, Boddington, 23.
1699 Feb. 26 Wm. x Lye, Bodington, and Sara Lyes, Tredington. “Q. incont.”
1699 Nov. 16 John Dobbs, Stroud, 24, and Anne Miles, Boddington, 20.
1700 Apr. 6 John Leech, Boddington, 29, and Ann Ham, Boddington, 22.
Poll Books
Poll Book 1834, Eastern Division Gloucestershire The Poll at the Election of a Knight of The Shire to serve in Parliament for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucestershire taken August 11th and 12th 1834 before Harry Edmund Waller, Esquire, High Sheriff. Candidate Christopher William Codrington, Esquire, and Charles Hanbury Tracy Leigh, Esquire. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse
Boddington Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Boddington, a parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucester; on the river Chilt, 4 miles NW by W of Cheltenham r. station. It includes the township of Barrow; and has a post office under Cheltenham. Acres, 930. Real property, £1,670. Pop., 392. Houses, 81., The manor belongs to Mrs. T. L. Blagdon; and has a curious old moated mansion. King Alfred fought his last battle with the Danes, in 893, “at the barrow” The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Staverton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is ancient, and looks to be Norman, but is not really so.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Boddington, a parish in the union of Tewkesbury, partly in the hund. of Tewkesbury and partly in that of Westminster, lower divisions, county of Gloucester; 4 miles north-west by west of Cheltenham, and 3 west of the Cheltenham railway. Living, a curacy, subordinate to the vicarage of Staverton. Pop., in 1801, 273; in 1831, 421. Houses 62. Acres 1,550. A. P. £3,243. Poor rates, in 1837, £229.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851
Barrow The British Gazetteer 1852
Barrow, Gloucester, a hamlet in the parish of Boddington — (which see for access, &c.): 98 miles from London, 4 from Cheltenham, 5 from Tewkesbury. Money orders issued at Cheltenham: London letters delivered 8 a.m.: post closes 8 p.m. Piffs Elm.
Source: The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical: Showing the Distances of Each Place from London and Derby–gentlemen’s Seats–populations … &c. Illustrated by a Full Set of County Maps, with All the Railways Accurately Laid Down. Benjamin Clarke 1852; Published (for the proprietors) by H. G. Collins.
Historical Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Tewkesbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Winchcombe
- Poor Law Union: Tewkesbury
- Hundred: Tewkesbury; Westminster (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury