Downend, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Downend originally a chapelry of Mangotsfield Ancient Parish in Gloucestershire was created a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1874. In 1924 the ecclesiastical boundaries of Downend Ecclesiastical Parish were altered with the creation of Soundwell Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1831
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include:  Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Kingswood
• Mangotsfield
• Winterbourne
• Coalpit Heath
• Two Mile Hill
• Frenchay
• Frampton Cotterell
• Stapleton

Downend Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers for Downend.

Downend, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1874-1921

Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Emett John, Downend, Gloucestershire, stone quarryman, Sept. 2, 1828.

Hedges Noah, Downend, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, tailor, Jan. 1, 1841.

Parker William Bush, Downend, Gloucestershire, scrivener, March 7, 1837.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DOWNEND, a chapelry in Mangotsfield parish, Gloucester; near Mangotsfield r. station, 5 miles NE of Bristol. It has a post office under Bristol. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Mangotsfield, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.

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: Keynsham
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
• Rural Deanery: Bristol
• Poor Law Union: Keynsham
• Hundred: Barton Regis
• Province: Canterbury