Hardwicke Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Hardwicke is a chapelry of Standish Ancient Parish in Gloucestershire.

Parish registers begin: 1566

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Hardwicke Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Hardwicke, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1566-1812

Hardwicke, 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.

Hardwicke, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1755-1938

Death and Burial Records

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

Hardwicke, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1917

Marriages at Hardwicke 1566 to 1812 – Transcriptions

Note. – The Hardwicke Marriage entries are contained in four volumes, viz. :- Vol. I, 1566 to 1731; Vol. II, 1732 to 1780; Vol. III, 1755 to 1790; Vol. IV, 1791 to 1812. Vols. I and II contain Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages; Vols. III and IV are Marriages only.

Vol. I. – Parchment book, 11 in. by 7 in., 44 ½ leaves. The last 19 leaves are larger than the first 25, and they were probably bound together are the first part had been written, as on some pages in the first part the writing goes quite down to the binding; one page between the two parts has been torn out, so there are no entries for 1686-88.

Vol. II. – Parchment book, 8 in. by 14 in.; 15 leaves.

Vol. III. – Parchment book, with board covers, 6 in. by 8 in.; 32 leaves, ruled and numbered, but only 21 are used.

Vol. IV. – Paper book, with board covers, 10 in. by 15 in.; 24 leaves, with 4 printed forms for marriage entries on each page, but only 6 leaves (all but last form) are used. This book also contains forms for Baptisms and Burials.

Many of the Marriages are of people belonging to Standish, Saul, and Randwick. Standish is ecclesiastically united with Hardwicke, and is the Mother Parish to Saul and Randwick.

The following transcript has been collated with the Bishop’s Transcripts at Gloucester.

These Marriages have been extracted by Miss Catherine L. Lloyd Baker, of Hardwicke Court, by permission of the Rev. Canon Nash, M.A., Vicar of Standish-with-Hardwicke, and are now printed under her supervision.

Hardwicke Marriages 1800 to 1812

William Jennings [signed Jenings], b. p. Elmore, & Mary Fryer, s., p. H., lic. Wit. Elizabeth Fryer & James Clifford, 22 May 1800

James Wells, b., p. Haresfield, & Hannah Martin, s. p. H., lic. Wit. Richard Martin & Thomas Wells, 7 Oct. 1800

Daniel Buckingham, b., p. Haresfield, & Sarah Cooke [B.T. Cook], s., p. H., lic. Wit. Nathaniel Hawkins, James Clifford, 9 Sept. 1802

John Fryer, b., & Nancy Marston, s., both p. H., lic. Wit. Elizabeth Fryer & James Clifford, 23 Dec. 1802

William Roberts, b. p. H., & Ann Pearce, s. p. Standish, lic. Wit. Thomas Fryer & Sarah Pearce, 5 July 1803

William Sandilands Wilson, p. Stroud, & Elizabeth Martin, p. H., lic. Wit. William Martin & Richard Martin, 10 Jan. 1805

George Roberts, p. Westbury upon Severn, & Elizabeth Fryer, p. H., lic. Wit. Thomas Fryer & Elizabeth Fryer, 15 Oct. 1805

Thomas Mills, b., p. Stroud, & Jane Martin, s., p. H., lic. Wit. William Martin & Sarah Mills, 5 Apr. 1806

Benjamin Leech, b., & Nancy Brazenton, s., both p. H. Wit. William Leech & James Clifford, 21 Apr. 1806

James Prosser, b., p. Elmore, & Sarah Bray, s., p. H.  Wit. William Leech & James Clifford, 21 Apr. 1806

Joseph Woodhouse, b., & Ann Roberts, s., both p. H., lic.  Wit. John Woodhouse & James Clifford, 24 Dec. 1806

John Gayner [singed & B.T. Gainer], w. [over b.], & Mary Ravenhill, s., both p. H., lic.  Wit. James Ravenhill & James Clifford, 10 Feb. 1807

James Keeble & Mary Paradine, s., both p. H. Wit. Thomas Davis & James Clifford, 23 Feb. 1807

James Ravenhill, b., & Mary Jenner, s., both p. H., lic.  Wit. Richard Chamberlayne, Mary [or Marg. ?] Chamberlayne, 21 July 1807

John Rea, b., p. Pulley, & Hannah Prosser, p. H., lic.  Wit. James Prosser & James Clifford, 31 Aug. 1807

Joseph [signed Joeph] Newman, b., p. Tibberton, & Hester [signed Esther] Marston, s., p. H., lic. Wit. John Fryer & Charlotte Marston, 14 Sept. 1807

Daniel Merrett, b., p. Longney, & Ann Jenner, s., p. H., lic.  Wit. Thomas Lane & Jane Lane, 31 Dec. 1807

William Pool, b., p. Churcham, & Mary Brown, s., p. H.  Wit. John Stephens & James Clifford, 3 May 1808

Joseph Fryer, b., & Mary Gingell, s., p. H., lic.  Wit. Thomas Gingell & Hester Gingell, 12 Aug. 1809

George Meadows, b., p. Longney, & Hannah [signed Hana] Jenner, s., p. H., lic. Wit. John Jenner & James Clifford, 31 June 1810

John Leech, b., & Esther Wasley, s., both p. H.  Wit. James Clifford & Ann Leech, 8 Apr. 1811

James Hawley & Elizabeth Warrand, both p. H.  Wit. Mary Warrand & James Clifford, 16 July 1811

Thomas Perry, b., & Elizabeth [signed Sarah] Perry, s., both p. H.  Wit. James Clifford & George Boker [?], 12 Aug. 1811

Charles Bevan Smith, b. p. Quedgeley, & Hannah Marston, s. p. H., lic. Wit. Thomas Marston & James Clifford, 14 Nov. 1811

William Gingell, b., & Eleanor Marston, s., both p. H., lic. Wit. C. B. Smith & James Clifford, 11 Feb. 1812

William Engley, w., & Hannah Hamlett, s., both p. H. Wit. Thomas Pearce & Elizabeth Lewis [?], 3 Nov. 1812

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. XII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1906.

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HARDWICKE, a village and a parish in Wheatenhurst district, Gloucestershire. The village stands near the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, 2 miles W of Haresfield r. station, and 4 SW by S of Gloucester; and gives the title of Earl to the family of Yorke.

The parish comprises 2,378 acres. Post-town, Gloucester. Real property, £6,139; of which £867 are in the canal. Pop. 625. Houses, 113. The manor belonged formerly to the Botelers and the Tryes, and belongs now to T. B. L. Baker, Esq. Hardwicke Court, a modern edifice, is the seat of Mr. Baker. Other chief landowners are J. C. Hayward and J. D. Niblett, Esqs.

The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Standish, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is early English and Tudor; consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with porch and tower; contains monuments of the Tryes, and a very ancient font; and was repaired in 1850.

There is a reformatory school, founded by Mr. Baker, the oldest in the kingdom; and it has accommodation for 45 boys.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

HARDWICK, or Hardwicke, a parish, in the union of Wheatenhurst, Upper division of the hundred of Whitstone, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Gloucester; containing 540 inhabitants. The Gloucester and Berkeley canal passes through. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of Standish. The church has a low embattled tower at the west end of the south aisle. Hardwicke gives the titles of Baron and Earl to the family of Yorke.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Gloucestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Wheatenhurst
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
  • Rural Deanery: Gloucester
  • Poor Law Union: Wheatenhurst
  • Hundred: Whitstone (Gloucestershire)
  • Province: Canterbury