Filton, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Filton or Fylton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Alternative names: Fylton

Parish registers begin: 1654

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Filton Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Filton, Bristol Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1654-1812

Filton, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1922

Marriages at Filton 1653-1812 – Transcriptions

Filton Marriages 1758 to 1812

Volume II.

This printed “Register Book, for the use of all Churches and Chapels.  London: Printed in the year MDCCLIV [1754].”

[In this book the Banns are printed above most Marriages, and filled up first.  This gives greater certainty to the names, as they are written three times over.]

[All persons are of this parish unless otherwise stated.]

David Morgan & Hester Gosse, banns only, Aug. 28, Sept. 4 and 11, 1757

John Taylor, labourer, & Margaret Bithel, s., 6 Jan. 1758

William Bishop, labourer, & Susannah Organ, s., 4 Apr. 1758

Isaac Morgan, of St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol, & Anna Wade, s., 7 Oct. 1758

James Beacham, of Barrington, Somerset, & Eleanor Millett, s., lic., 10 May 1759

William Williamson, labourer, & Mary Morgan, s., 2 Oct. 1759

Robert Cook, labourer, & Elizabeth Webb, s., 21 July 1760

Thomas Nutt, of Stoke Gifford, Glos., & Ann Kinson, s., 12 Apr. 1762

William Osborne, of Thornbury, & Hester Millett, s., lic., 5 June 1763

Robert Screen, labourer, & Mary Tiler, s., 19 July 1763

Thomas Ocford & Susannah Bishop, w., 24 Apr. 1768

John Owen, yeoman, & Sarah Hancock, s., lic., 3 Aug. 1768

John Gillard, labourer, & Elizabeth Ware, s., 11 Apr. 1769

Thomas Shepherd, of Almondsbury, Glos., & Martha Hancock, lic., 8 Nov. 1772

John Watkins, labourer, & Sarah Spender, s., lic., 6 May 1773

William Brown, of St. James’, Bristol, & Ann West, s., 13 Oct. 1774

Edward Dyer, yeoman, & Mary Turner, w., lic., 22 Sept. 1776

John West, labourer, & Hester Werrett, s., 29 Sept. 1776

Thomas Seborne [or Seabourn], yeoman, & Mary Hancock, s., lic., 21 Nov. 1776

Philip Beard, yeoman, & Susannah Hancock, s. lic., 4 Mar. 1777

William Williams, labourer, & Elizabeth Fowler, s., 1 June 1777

David Jenkins & Ann Crow, s., lic., 10 Aug. 1778

Richard Beard & Ann Avens, of Backwell, Somerset, lic., 1 Jan. 1779

Daniel Millett, yeoman, & Eleanor Millett, of Elverton, s., lic., 22 Apr. 1779

William Davies & Mary West, 18 May 1779

Isaac Close, of Stoke Gifford, & Hannah Rugg, 23 Dec. 1779

Robert McGhie & Elizabeth Pomeroy Bruce, 24 Jan. 1780

John Gardenar & Sarah Davies, 18 Dec. 1780

Charles Weymouth, yeoman, & Mary Beard, s., lic., 19 Dec. 1780

John Mountjoy, yeoman, & Mary Pine, s., 11 Oct. 1784

[The printed form here changes for two pages, there being no form for Banns to be first inserted.]

William Cooke & Hannah Durbin, 17 Jan. 1785

John Richards & Elizabeth Willett, 11 Sept. 1786

Obadiah Price & Hannah Newton, of St. James’, Bristol, lic., 7 Mar. 1787

Henry Slade, of St. Philip and St. Jacob, Bristol, & Betty Turner, lic., 25 May 1789

Peter Evans & Joanna Wilcox, 7 Sept. 1789

John Iles & Ruth Webb, 27 Mar. 1791

John Gowers, Westbury, Glos., & Sarah Owen, 15 Apr. 1792

Joseph Reeves & Mary Russ, 9 June 1793

Lewis Williams & Johanna Driver, s., 7 Sept. 1793

William Clements & Elizabeth Childs, 25 Jan. 1794

Thomas James, yeoman, & Winifred Holliday, 21 Jan. 1798

Brooke Smith, gent., of All Saints, Bristol, & Hannah Edye, lic., 20 Aug. 1798

Stephen Brooks, of Old Sodbury, Glos., & Sarah Owen, 2 Mar. 1801

Edward Upton, of Winterbourn, Glos., & Ann Owen, 2 Apr. 1804

Daniel Price & Martha Tresher, 22 Dec. 1806

John Pullen, Thornbury, Glos., & Rebecca Brown, lic., 30 May 1807

Thomas Close & Sarah Griffin, 25 Mar. 1811

Joseph Parry & Anne James, 25 Mar. 1811

[The only occasion in this Register on which two marriages took place at the same time.  The witnesses in each case were, Elizabeth Gayner, Hannah Gayner, and John Phillimore.]

Charles Maxfield, St. James’, Bristol, & Hester Brown Daw, lic., 22 Apr. 1812

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. XIII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1908.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

FILTON, or Fylton, a parish in Clifton district, Gloucester; on the Bristol and South Wales Union railway, 5 miles N of Bristol. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Bristol. Acres, 1,030. Real property, £2,631. Pop., 317. Houses, 58. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Fyltons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £242. Patron, R. Poulden, Esq. The church, with the exception of the tower, was recently rebuilt; and the tower contains a stone coffin, which was discovered at the re-building. Charities, £5.

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

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.

Williams John A., Filton, Gloucestershire, dealer and chapman, July 28. 1829.

Administration

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