Cowley Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Cowley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish church: St Mary

Parish registers begin: 1676

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Cowley Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

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

Cowley, 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.

Cowley, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930

Death and Burial Records

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

Cowley, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1865

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COWLEY, a parish in Cheltenham district, Gloucester; on Ermine-street, under the Cotswolds, 5½ miles S by E of Cheltenham. Post town, Colesborne, under Cheltenham. Acres, 1,834. Real property, £2,427. Pop., 311. Houses, 68. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £322. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old but good.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

COWLEY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Cheltenham, hundred of Rapsgate, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (S. by E.) from Cheltenham; containing 317 inhabitants. It comprises 1835 acres, of which about 200 are pasture, 100 woodland, 39 common or waste, and the rest arable. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at 9. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for 300, and the glebe consists of 73 acres, with a glebe-house.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

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

Administration

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