Cold Aston, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Cold Aston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Alternative names: Aston Blank
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin: 1727
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASTON-BLANK, or Ashton-Blank, a parish in Northleach district, Gloucester; under the Cotswolds, near the Fosse-way and the Windrush river, 4 miles NNE of Northleach, and 8 SW by W of Addlestrop r. station. It has a post office under Cheltenham. Acres, 2,250. Real property, £2,381. Pop., 325. Houses, 68. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £186. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there are charities £39.
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
Aston-Blank, 5 miles N.E. Northleach. P. 302.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840
Aston-Blank, a parish in the hund. of Bradley, union of Northleach, county of Gloucester; 3½ miles north-east from Northleach. Living, a discharged vicarage in the archd. of Gloucester and dio. of Gloucester and Bristol; rated at £26 12s 4d.; gross income £153. Patron, the Crown. Great and small tithes, the property of the lay-impropriator and vicar, commuted in 1795. There is a school here with a small endowment. Other charities connected with the parish produce £34 per annum. Pop., in 1801, 216; in 1831, 295. Houses 60. Acres 2,250. A. P. £2,637. Poor rates, in 1837, £89.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.
Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833
Aston-Blank, co. Gloucester.
P. T. North Leach (81) 4m. N b E. Pop. 296.
A parish in the hundred of Bradley; living, a dis. vicarage in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester; val. in K. B. 6l. 12s. 4d.; church ded. to St. Andrew; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
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.
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Cold Aston Marriages 1728 to 1812
Cold Aston Marriages General Information
Marriages at Cold Aston, Otherwise Aston Blank, 1728 to 1812
Note. – The earlier Registers of this parish have long been missing and were stated to be so in 1831.
Volume I is a parchment bound book of paper leaves. It contains, besides the Baptisms and Burials, the Marriages from 1728 to 1754. It is in good condition.
Volume II is the usual book of printed forms and includes the period 1754 to 1812.
By leave of the Rev. A. W. Freeman these extracts have been made by and are now printed under the supervision of Mr. George B. Michell
Marriages at Cold Aston 1728-1812 Gloucestershire Parish Registers – Marriages volume 17 – ukga.org
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Cold Aston Marriages 1775 to 1812
James Atherton, p. Brackley, co. Northampton, & Elizabeth Mace, lic., 9 Jan. 1775
Edward Bowld & Ann Minchin, 15 Apr. 1776
William Bosbury, yeoman, & Hanna Hanks, lic., 13 May 1776
James Sessions & Mary Minchin, 18 May 1778
Samuel Townsend, p. Bourton-on-the-Water, & Jane Westmacote, 13 Oct. 1779
John Walcraft & Sarah Wicksey, 1 Nov. 1779
Isaac Taylor, p. Calne, co. Wilts, clerk, & Martha Hanks, lic., 29 Dec. 1779
Benjamin Greenaway of [ – ]owell & Susanna Buller, 7 Aug. 1780
John Pullam & Ann Cook, 10 Aug. 1780
Samuel Perry & Ann Hanks, 7 Sept. 1780
Edward Brown & Mary Tray, 14 May 1781
Daniel Yearp, p. Compton Abdale, & Ann Draper, lic., 18 June 1781
John Roberts & Ann Heming, 4 Dec. 1781
John Freeman, of Kyneton, p. Temple Guyting & Ann James, lic., 7 June 1782
Jeremiah Greening & Ann Taylor, 13 Sept. 1782
Joseph Dennis & Ann Hitchman, 28 Oct. 1782
Joseph Heming & Betty Tray, 7 Sept. 1784
James Sessions & Elizabeth Haines, 25 June 1786
Samuel Smith & Catherine Hanks, lic., 5 Oct. 1786
Thomas Newman, p. Southrop, & Susanna James, 27 July 1787
James Crips & Margaret Draper, 28 May 1787
Benj. Carey, p. Stanway, & Hannah Holtham, 29 Oct. 1787
Stephen Hanks & Susanna Loverin, 6 Oct. 1789
Thomas Meadows & Betty Dreaper, 14 Dec. 1789
William Newman, p. Temple Guiting, & Hester Pearce, 22 Feb. 1790
John Webb & Mary Webb, 15 Nov. 1790
Thomas Humphriss, p. Lower Slaughter, & Susanna Packer, 7 Oct. 1791
John Sessions & Hannah Mace, 5 Nov. 1791
William Jeffrys & Mary Holtham, 7 Oct. 1792
John Butler, of A., & Sarah Tye, of Cyford, p. Upper Slaughter, lic., 26 Nov. 1792
Edward Harris & Sarah Curtis, 6 Nov. 1793
Thomas Collins & Elizabeth Curtis, 25 July 1796
John Hensley & Hannah Curtis, 27 Nov. 1796
Richard Cox & Mary Keen, 3 Nov. 1798
Thomas Freeman & Mary Shepherd, 28 Feb. 1799
Joseph Harpur & Sarah Dix, 28 Aug. 1799
Richard Morris & Ann Greening, 16 Oct. 1799
John Greening & Elizabeth Parry, 4 Nov. 1799
Robert Cooke & Ann Chaplin, 26 May 1802
Thomas Curtis & Sarah Bubb, 15 June 1802
William Weaving & Rachel Cook, 7 May 1804
Thomas Braggington, p. Wenlode, co. Worc., & Hester Collett, lic., 28 Oct. 1804
William Barnet & Mary Green, 13 Apr. 1805
Thomas Humphreys & Zipporah Day, 4 June 1805
David Lane, p. Little Rissington, & Mary Sessions, 23 Dec. 1805
William Mason & Elizabeth Butler, 13 July 1806
Joseph Wood, p. Kerbridge, co. Oxon., & Sarah Bowl, p. Mossberry, 15 Sept. 1806
Thomas Greening, w., p. Withington, & Ann Hope, 20 Oct. 1806
Abraham Webling, p. Kindar, co. Oxon., & Mary Collett, 14 Oct. 1807
William Wilks, p. Sherborne, & Mary Haynes, 19 Oct. 1807
Benjamin Bond, of A., & Mary Bowld, p. Bourton-on-the-Water, 3 June 1808
Henry Hitchman & Elizabeth Slatter, 3 Aug. 1808
Robert Payne & Hannah Nash, 12 Oct. 1808
Daniel Higgs & Elizabeth Baker, 9 Jan. 1809
Joseph Miles & Sarah James, 8 Sept. 1810
William Price & Jane Wood, 25 Oct. 1810
James Smith, p. Bourton-on-the-Water, & Ann Bunting, 24 Jan. 1811
William Smith & Jane Hitchman, 13 May 1811
Thomas Acock, w., & Rebecca Packer, lic., 18 July 1811
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by the late W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and Thomas M. Blagg, F.S.A., Vol XVII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1914
Cold Aston Marriages 1754 to 1774
Volume II.
John Cook & Sarah Every, 29 Oct. 1754
[After this date, unless otherwise stated, the parties are invariably of Cold Aston, and bachelor and spinster respectively.]
John Hague, of Donnington, p. Stow, & Elizabeth Bosbery, 2 Aug. 1756
George Draper, of A., & Anne Oliffe, p. Withington, lic., 16 Oct. 1756
John Smith, p. Quennington, & Rebecca Wicksey [signed Wixcey], lic., 7 Nov. 1756
William Stevens, p. Fairford, & Mary Wicksey, lic., 7 July 1757
Thomas Oakey, p. Naunton, & Sarah Arkel, 18 July 1757
Josiah Gillet, p. Naunton, & Martha Gardner, 15 Dec. 1757
Jabez Soul & Ann Belcheir [signed Balcher], 22 Jan. 1758
Gyles Draper, p. Sevenhampton, & Ann Greening, lic., 12 Mar. 1758
Joseph Mace, of A., & Ann Jeffason, p. Lower Guiting, 1 Sept. 1759
Stephen Stiles, p. Notgrove, & Hannah Rowland, 3 Sept. 1759
James Tray, of A., & Elizabeth Humphriss, w., p. Hasleton, lic., 31 Dec. 1759
Joseph Hall, p. Farmington, & Sarah Bowbury, 28 Apr. 1760
Richard Reynolds, p. Naunton, & Elizabeth Hanks, 17 Nov. 1760
Thomas Clements & Charlott Beck, lic., 5 May 1761
Thomas Maizy, of A., & Jane Hinksman, p. Salperton, lic., 5 May 1761
Richard Griffin, of Clapton, p. Bourton-on-the-Water, & Mary Niccolls, 19 July 1761
Laurence Cook, p. Notgrove, & Rebecca Packer, lic., 7 Jan. 1762
John Cook & Sarah Jones, 23 Apr. 1763
Thomas Clapton, p. Didbrook, & Hannah Mason, 1 June 1763
William Hicks, p. Northleach, & Ann Gurly, 13 Feb. 1764
Gabriel Adams, jun., p. Farmington, & Elizabeth Greening, lic., 15 July 1764
Thomas Teall, of A., & Mary Hanks, p. Bourton-on-the-Water, 12 Aug. 1764
Samuel Holtom & Sarah Archer, 25 Dec. 1764
Robert Cook, p. Coln St. Aldwyn’s, & Ann Mason, 6 Jan. 1765
Joseph Mason & Elizabeth Phipps, 21 June 1765
Edmund Webb & Margaret Hart, 16 Oct. 1765
John Shepherd, of A., & Sarah James, p. Farmington, 22 Oct. 1765
Giles Tray & Betty Rowland, 7 Nov. 1765
John Packer & Ann Perry, lic., 14 May 1766
Thomas Wixey & Elizabeth Humphriss, lic., 17 Sept. 1767
John Hanks & Ann Humphriss, lic., 27 Dec. 1768
Edmund Humphriss & Mary Hanks, lic., 27 Dec. 1768
William Williams & Hannah Curtiss, lic., 28 Nov. 1769
John Jefferson, of A., & Mary Maishfield, p. Seven Hampton, lic., 16 Mar. 1772
William James, p. Notgrove, & Betty Hitchman, 7 Oct. 1773
Charles Hunt, p. Naunton, & Betty James, 4 Apr. 1774
John Packer, w., & Mary Ford, lic., 7 July 1774
Thomas Sparrow, p. Shipton Oliffe, & Mary Humphriss, 18 July 1774
Richard Loverin & Susanna Troy, 14 Nov. 1774
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by the late W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and Thomas M. Blagg, F.S.A., Vol XVII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1914
Cold Aston Marriages 1728 to 1754
Volume I.
John Arkell & Mary Colgrove, both of A., 27 Oct. 1728
Henry Dutton & Sarah Jenner, both p. Fairford, lic., 16 July 1729
Roger Probart & Judith Pates, w., both p. Charleton Kings, lic., 21 July 1729
Robert Newman, p. Cheltenham, & Susanna Aishley, p. Northleach, lic., 19 Sept. 1729
John Collet, p. Stow-on-the-Wold, & Katharine Edwards, of A., lic., 21 Sept. 1729
John Collet, p. Coln Deans, & Sarah Hinton, w., p. Northleach, lic., 29 Sept. 1729
Justinian Lovesey, p. Hampnet, & Judith Spencer, p. Shirebourn, lic., 30 Nov. 1729
William Sly, p. Shilton, & Elisabeth Perkins, of A., lic., 31 Mar. 1730
Francis Turner & Grace Hitchman, w., both p. Northleach, lic., 8 Oct. 1730
Richard Maysey & Ann Rickets, both p. Northleach, lic., 2 Apr. 1731
Robert Looker, p. Cirencester, & Mary Wetman, p. Bourton-on-the-Water, 13 Sept. 1732
Thomas Wakefield, of Signet, p. Burford, co. Oxon., & Elizabeth Clark, p. Hawling, 6 May 1734
Thomas West & Sarah Matthews, both p. Northleach, lic., 30 Dec. 1734
John Archer & Hannah Dodge, both of A., 22 Apr. 1735
William Monk & Ann Dodge, 10 June 1736
Harry Rosse, w., & Mary Brunsdon, s., both p. Northleach, lic., 8 Feb. 1737/8
John Dobbings, p. Cheltenham, b., & Mary Keene, p. Brockhamton, s., lic., 17 Nov. 1738
Joseph Hicks, p. Letchlade, & Rebeccah Hart, of A., 27 Feb. 1738
Richard Griffin, the younger, blacksmith, p. Shipton Olliffe, & Ann Tray, of A., 30 Oct. 1739
William Bradstock, gent., of A., & Mary Hathaway, w., p. Notgrove, lic., 12 Feb. 1740
Joseph James & Elizabeth Barnet, both of A., 22 June 1741
Henry Hart & Ann Williams, both p. Cold Salperton, 26 Jan. 1741/2
James Hart & Jane Miller, both p. Northleach, 5 June 1742
John Alsop & Sara Hitchman, w., both p. Notgrove, 7 Feb. 1722/3 [sic]
Richard Humphrys, of A., & Alice Cooke, p. Notgrove, 4 Apr. 1743
William Hitchman & Sara Morris, both of A., 24 July 1743
Richard Bastin & Hannah Hart, p. Cold Salperton, lic., 22 Feb. 1744/5
John Tayler, p. Lower Guyten, & Mary Westmacoat, of A., lic., 29 Sept. 1745
Henry Collet, p. Notgrove, & Mary Fluck, p. Hawling, 6 May 1746
Charles Powell, p. Notgrove, & Ann Harding, w., p. Shirebourn, 7 May 1746
John Jewell, p. Lower Guyting, & Judith Allder, p. Salperton, 7 Aug. 1746
John Hows, p. Great Barrinton, & Mary Laurance, of A., 5 Nov. 1746
John Curtis & Mary White, both p. Farmington, 2 Oct. 1751
Henry Hardey, p. Todington, & Susanna [Kn]owles, p. Didbrook, lic., 28 Jan. 1754
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by the late W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., and Thomas M. Blagg, F.S.A., Vol XVII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1914
Directories
Aston Blank or Cold Aston Morris Gloucestershire Directory 1876
Aston-Blank (or Cold Aston) is a village and parish in Northleach union, containing by the census of 1861, 325, and in 1871, 311 inhabitants, and 2267 acres; in the deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Gloucester, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, Bradley hundred, East Gloucestershire; 2 ½ miles south from Bourton-on-the-Water Station, 4 miles north-east from Northleach, 6 south-west from Stow-on-the-Wold, and about 1 mile from the old Roman Fossway.
The church is an ancient edifice, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the Norman and Perpendicular styles, with tower containing five bells. The vicarage, in the incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Townsend, B.A., is valued at £186 per annum, with residence and 112 acres of glebe land, and is in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor.
There is a National School for children of both sexes, which was erected by the late Henry Thomas Hope, Esq.; it is supported by voluntary contributions. The executors of the late Henry Thomas Hope, Esq., are lords of the manor. The poor have the rent of 30 acres of land, which is distributed in coal. The rateable value of this parish is £2,393.
Clergy and Gentry
Cook Mrs. Hannah, Elm bank
Townsend Rev. Thos., B.A., The Vicarage
Trades and Professions
Acock Arthur, farmer
Acock and Hanks, auctioneers and estate agents; and at Stow-on-the-Wold. (see advertisement)
Acock Joseph, farmer, Rectory farm
Avery Oliver, “keepers’ Arms” and baker
Barton Charles, farmer, Aston farm
Barton Mrs. Mary, farmer, Grove farm
Cook Richard, parish clerk
Hart William, slater
Hemming Joseph, mason
Humphries Richard, blacksmith
Johnson Benjamin, farmer, Manor farm
Mason Henry, clerk
Morris John, bookmaker
Packer Job, beer retailer and shopkeeper
Packer Thomas, wheelwright
Potter Thomas, wheelwright and carpenter
Letters through Northleach. Letter box cleared at 2.45 p.m. on week-days only. Bourton-on-the-Water is the nearest money order office
National School – Mrs. Mary Blake, mistress
Source: Morris & Co.’s Commercial Directory & Gazetteer of Gloucestershire with Bristol and Monmouth. Second Edition. Hounds Gate, Nottingham. 1876
Aston Blank (Cold Aston) Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863
Aston Blank, frequently called Cold Aston, is a parish and small village, distant 4 miles north-west from Northleaeh, 6 south-west from Stow-on-the-Wold, 2½ from Bourton-on-the-Water station, a branch of the West Midland railway, in Bradley hundred, Northleach union and county court district, East Gloucestershire, rural deanery of Stow, Gloucester archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is situated about 1 mile west from the old Roman fossway.
The church of St. Andrew is an ancient stone building in the Norman and Perpendicular styles, with a well-proportioned tower containing 5 bells. The living is a vicarage, value £186 yearly, with residence and 112 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor; the Rev. Thomas Townsend, B.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, is the incumbent.
There is a National school, erected by the late Henry Thomas Hope, Esq., and supported by voluntary contributions. The population in 1861 was 325, and the acreage is 2,250. The soil is stone brash. The executors of the late Henry Thomas Hope, Esq., are lords of the manor and chief landowners. There are charities of about £30 yearly value, viz., 30 acres of land, the rent of which is expended in coals for the poor.
Parish Clerk, Richard Cook.
COMMERCIAL.
Acock Arthur, auctioneer
Acock Joseph, farmer
Avery Joseph, Keepers’ Arms, & baker
Barton Charles, farmer, Aston farm
Barton John, farmer
Curtis Stephen, mason
Humphries Richard, blacksmith
Johnsons Benjamin, farmer
Mitchell William, shoemaker
Packer Job, shopkeeper & beer retailer
Packer Thomas, wheelwright
Packer William, wheelwright
Willesden George, farm bailiff to Lawrence Cook, esq
Letters are received through Northleach. Bourton-on-the-Water is the nearest money order office.
Insurance Agent. — General Hailstorm & Norwich Union Fire & Life, Arthur Acock
National School, Mrs. Mary Blake, 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
Aston Blank Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856
Aston Blank, frequently called Cold Aston, is a township, parish, and small village, distant 4 miles north-west from Northleach, 6 south-west from Stow-on-the-Wold, and 9 from the Adlestrop station on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway, in Bradley Hundred, Northleach Union, East Gloucestershire, Gloucester archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is situated about 1 mile west from the old Roman fossway.
The church of St. Andrew is an ancient stone building in the Norman and perpendicular styles, with a well-proportioned tower containing 5 bells. The living is a vicarage, worth £186 yearly, with residence and 112 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor; the Rev. Thomas Townsend, B.A., is the incumbent.
There is a village school, with an endowment of £5 per annum for the education of ten poor children. The population, in 1851, was 310, and the acreage is 2,250. The soil is stone brash. Henry Thomas Hope, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. There are charities of about £30 yearly value, viz., 30 acres of land, the rent of which is expended in coals for the poor.
Traders
Acock Arthur, auctioneer, & agent to the Norwich Union fire & life, & the General Hail Storm assurance
Acock Joseph, farmer
Avery Joseph, ‘Keeper’s Arms,’ & baker
Barton Charles, farmer, Aston farm
Barton Robert, farmer
Johnsons Benjamin, farmer
Lodge Charles, farmer
Packer Job, shopkeeper & beer retailer
Packer Thomas, wheelwright
Packer Wm. wheelwright & postmaster
Powell Nicholas, farmer
Smith Hibson, butcher
Post Office. – William Packer, postmaster. Letters from Northleach arrive at 10 a.m.; dispatched at 2 p.m. Northleach is the nearest money order office.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Northleach
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
- Rural Deanery: Stow
- Poor Law Union: Northleach
- Hundred: Bradley
- Province: Canterbury