Henbury Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Henbury is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Stowick, Redwick and Northwick, Redwick, Northwick and Redwick, Northwick, Northwich with Redwick, Lawrence Weston, Kings Weston, Compton, Charlton, and Aust.

Aust, Redwick and Northwick are chapelries of Henbury

Parish church: Henbury St Mary; Northwick St Thomas.

Parish registers begin:

Henbury

  • Parish registers: 1582
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669

Aust

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Redwick and Northwick

  • Parish registers: 1667
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Henbury Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Henbury, Bristol Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1582-1812

Northwick St Thomas, Bristol Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1667-1812

Henbury, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1922

Northwick St Thomas, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917

Marriages at Henbury 1544 to 1812 Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol 16. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1912. Gloucestershire Parish Registers Marriages Volume 16 contains Marriages at Henbury 1544 to 1812 and Henbury Marriages (Bishop’s Transcripts) 1669 to 1794 – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Henbury Marriages – Transcriptions

Henbury Marriages 1805 to 1812

John Matthews, innholder, & Maria Richards, lic., 5 Jan. 1805

John Joyner, yeoman, & Mary Bickerton, lic., 2 Apr. 1805

Samuel Peter Marindin, p. Edgbaston, Warwick, & Catherine Louisa Webb, 13 June 1805

John Wind & Mary Ann Colwell, 22 July 1805

John Wiltshire, husbandman, & Temperance Hopkins, 10 Sept. 1805

James Brown Cary, p. Shepton Mallett, Som., tanner, & Sophia Atkins, lic., 14 Sept. 1805

James Williams, p. St. Augustines, Bristol, master mariner, & Clarissa Eliza Smith, lic., 13 Oct. 1805

James Pearce, yeoman, & Sarah Collins, of Aust, lic., 13 Oct. 1805

William Lee, mason, & Francis Rees, lic., 17 Oct. 1805

Richard Withers, mariner, & Elizabeth Chapplin, lic., 8 Nov. 1805

John Boulton, husbandman, & Mary Weeks, lic., 11 Nov. 1805

James Morgan, mariner, & Ann Jenkins, 8 Dec. 1805

William Francombe [signs Frankum], mariner, & Elizabeth Bickerton, 24 Feb. 1806

Jacob Dumain, carpenter, & Sarah Hignell, 28 Apr. 1806

Daniel Powell, mason, & Jane Thorn, 12 Aug. 1806

William Lee, junr., mason, & Hannah Baistrick, 21 Aug. 1806

Daniel Boulton, farmer, & Anna Williams, lic., 12 Oct. 1806

William Parfitt, mariner, & Sarah Pool, 22 Oct. 1806

Alexander Richardson, artilleryman, & Phebe Briant, 4 Nov. 1806

Robert Rubber, husbandman, & Elizabeth Hughes, 7 Dec. 1806

Robert Hale Blagdon Hale, p. Alderly, Glos., & Theodosia Eleanor Bourke, lic., 13 Jan. 1807

[Erasure on second line Bridegroom signs “R. H. Blagdon Hall” and Bride signs “T. E. Bourke.”]

John Bevan, labourer, & Mary Philips, 19 May 1807

Charles Keeling & Elizabeth Gay, 29 Aug. 1807

Nicholas Rodway, mariner, & Mary Worgan, 25 Oct. 1807

Joseph Loveder, p. Westbury-on-Trim, husbandman, & Ann Evans, w., lic., 21 Mar. 1808

Benjamine Pring, p. Olveston, victualler, & Elizabeth Wilcox, lic., 22 Mar. 1808

Benjamin Ford, carpenter, & Jane Watkins, lic., 30 June 1808

John Thomas, tallow chandler, & Ann Horwood, w., lic., 25 Aug. 1808

Edward Robe, p. Christchurch, Bristol, master-mariner, & Mary Taylor, lic., 4 Oct. 1808

William Smith, yeoman, & Sarah Nelms, of Olveston, lic., 21 Jan. 1809

Richard Spear & Hannah Council, 22 Jan. 1809

Abel Jayne, yeoman, & Ann Ford, lic., 25 May 1809

William Durban & Diana Rice, 29 May 1809

John Tucker, yeoman, & Frances Hunt, p. Bedminster, Som., lic., 6 Aug. 1809

Benjamine Skuse, farmer, & Mary Ann Watkins, 3 Oct. 1809

William Skinnar [signs Skinner] & Mary Carter, 17 Oct. 1809

Joseph Hignell, grazier, of H., & Sarah Smith, p. Compton Greenfield, lic., 20 May 1810

Charles Baber, p. Pucklechurch, husbandman, & Hannah Crossman, lic., 24 May 1810

John Shepherd, yeoman, & Ann Collings [signs Collins], 25 June 1810

William Hawkins, gentleman, & Elizabeth Evans, lic., 5 July 1810

Giles Beezer, labourer, & Sally Manning, 23 July 1810

William House, labourer, & Elizabeth Lambert, 8 Oct. 1810

John Wilcox, husbandman, & Mary Fisher, w., lic., 8 Oct. 1810

John Nicholas, labourer, & Jane Cooling, 27 Apr. 1811

John Hales, carpenter, & Hester Cox, 28 Mar. 1811

William Gunter, p. Iron Acton, yeoman, & Hester Gunter, lic., 27 June 1811

John Williams, accomptant, & Elizabeth Green, 7 July 1811

William Green, accomptant, & Catherine Reilly, 7 July 1811

William Vaughan, accomptant, & Sarah Webb, 13 Jan. 1812

Henry Howell, mason, & Ann Dobson, 5 Apr. 1812

William Nelmes, p. Olveston, Glos., & Ann Jones, lic., 11 Apr. 1812

Nicholas Bedgood, labourer, & Ann Wellen, 23 July 1812

Edward Butcher, labourer, & Frances Meager, w., 14 Sept. 1812

Thomas Williams, labourer, & Elizabeth Darter, 12 Oct. 1812

Revd. John Ward, p. Compton Greenfield, & Betty Smith, lic., 2 Nov. 1812

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L.  Vol XVI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1912.

Henbury Marriages 1800 to 1804

Edward Gunter, p. Stoke Gifford, yeoman, & Mary Able, lic., 3 Feb. 1800

John Beckerton, p. Elberton, Glos., husbandman, & Sarah Pearce, 19 Mar. 1800

Charles Langley, p. Almondsbury, Glos., husbandman, & Elizabeth Meredith, 27 Mar. 1800

James Williams, w., & Betty Pride, wid., 11 May 1800

Richard Hill & Margaret Hudson, w., 2 Sept. 1800

John Porter & Jane Sanders, 26 Oct. 1800

William Charles, w., & Mary Richards, w., 15 Dec. 1800

John Edmunds & Mary Pearce, lic., 13 Feb. 1801

Thomas Crooker & Betty Crossman, lic., 29 Mar. 1801

William Lane & Elizabeth Hemmings, 15 June 1801

Edward Dyer & Ann Dyer, 28 June 1801

John Stoakes, w., & Sarah Wells, w., 29 Sept. 1801

Samuel Baker, p. Clifton, joiner, & Ann Morgan, w., lic., 19 Oct. 1801

James Taylor, husbandman, & Ann Dowler, 23 Nov. 1801

John Jones, farmer, & Mary Colston, lic., 13 Dec. 1801

John Skinner, of H., w., & Honor Hicks, p. St. George’s, Som., lic., 14 Dec. 1801

James Watkins, labourer, & Mary Hughes, 8 Feb. 1802

Thomas Pickman, husbandman, & Mary Johnes, 26 June 1802

William Fowler, husbandman, & Mary Hand, 13 Dec. 1802

Benjamin Dyer, yeoman, & Sarah Creed, lic., 6 Jan. 1803

George Alvis, yeoman, & Sarah Harris, 13 Apr. 1803

Josuah Colborn, p. Frampton Cotterell, & Hannah Mills, 18 Aug. 1803

[This entry has been put in wrong spaces and printed headings are struck out.]

William Shepherd, yeoman, & Elizabeth Hignell, lic., 21 Aug. 1803

Thomas Story, p. Purington, Som., yeoman, & Rachel Franklyn, w., lic., 22 Aug. 1803

Charles Wheeler, waterman, & Elizabeth Hicks, lic., 9 Oct. 1803

Jonathan Briant, husbandman, & Christianna Williams, 20 Oct. 1803

Thomas Smith, husbandman, & Sarah Cox, 6 Dec. 1803

William Beard, yeoman, & Elizabeth Harris Joce, lic., 21 Feb. 1804

Richard Buckle, p. Clifton, Glos., gentleman, & Mary Osborne, lic., 2 May 1804

John Griffiths, yeoman, & Sarah Bwye, lic., 7 May 1804

Henry Powell, husbandman, & Lettice Jones, 12 Aug. 1804

John Elsworthy, labourer, & Sarah Cook, 14 Aug. 1804

Thomas Jones, labourer, & Hannah Chaplin, 15 Aug. 1804

John Rowley, labourer, & Hannah Cambridge, 15 Aug. 1804

Peter Brooks, p. Myrthyr Tedvil, Glam., gardener, & Sarah Cook, lic., 13 Sept. 1804

Peter Roberts, mariner, & Mary Gill, 24 Sept. 1804

William Pines, carpenter, & Sarah Bryant, lic., 1 Oct. 1804

Thomas Cook, p. Pucklechurch, butcher, & Prudence Thomas, lic., 19 Nov. 1804

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L.  Vol XVI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1912.

Henbury Marriages Volume IX

[The following appears on the first three paper leaves.]

“March 22th day in the year 1687 the River of Severen did overflow over the woalls ffrom Aust to Kingroad and ffloded the Levell as high as the geeat [gate] at Oulveston of Lutterell and above it a goodly deall but not quite to the Lige pools and it ran over again ffebruary the 13th day next ffollowing in 1688.”

“The new brudg [bridge] was bilt in 1686.”

“March ye 3th day 1689 at night there was a great Erth quack.”

“November the 29th anno. Dom. 1703 at night there happened a very blusterous storm which caused Severn to overflow the Sea walls and all the marsh from Aust to Kingroad, it flowed the same time from the Passage to Compton and all Almondsbury marshes was under water.”

“This Boock boart in the 2th year off the Rain off King James the Second over England it being in the year of The Lord 1686.”

“The new bruge billt in 1686.”

“MDLXXXVI. This the true date of the Bruge.”

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L.  Vol XVI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1912.

Henbury Marriages Northwick Chapel 1702 to 1735

Marriages in Ye Chappell of Northwick

Jonathan Cutts & Mary Jones, both of Aust, 13 Apr. 1702

Benjamin Poole, of ye Parish of St. Michael, Bristoll, & Mary Knight, of Aust, 18 Jan. 1704

John Austin & Jane Powell, both of Northwick, 24 May 1705

Abraham Lee, p. St. James, Bristoll, & Elizabeth Churchman, of Aust, 10 June 1705

Wm. Coleman, p. Almondsbury, & Ann Hollister, of Northwick, 28 Apr. 1709

William Robinson, of Aust, & Elizabeth Hitchens, of Tiddenham, 31 Jan. 1709/10

Thomas Lewis & Mary Saunders, both of Aust, 22 Sept. 1712

John Cornther, p. Acton, & Elizabeth Dyer, of Northwick, 24 Sept. 1713

John Lewis, p. Westbury-upon-Trim, & Mary Roach, Northwick, 15 Feb. 1735

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Registers. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L.  Vol XVI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1912.

Directors of Companies

The following people were listed in the Directory of Directors 1881 as directors of companies who were either living in Henbury or the company was based in Henbury or both.

Butterworth – Mr Reginald Wyndham Butterworth, Henbury, near Bristol, is a director of the Taff Vale Railway Company

Parish History

Henbury

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HENBURY, a village, a tything, a parish, and a hundred, in Gloucester. The village stands on the SW verge of the county, near the Fosse way and the estuary of the Severn. 4½ miles NW of Bristol r. station: is a and has a post office under Bristol. The tything comprises 1,490 acres. Real property, £5,314. Pop., 423. Houses, 96.

The parish contains also the tythings of Kings-Weston, Lawrence-Weston, Stowick, Compton, Charlton, Aust, and Redwick and Northwick; and is chiefly in the district of Clifton, but partly in that of Thornbury. Acres, 15,409; of which 5,820 are water. Real property, £25,757. Pop., 2,482. Houses, 492. The manor belongs to Sir Greville Smyth, Bart., and E. Colston, Esq. Blaise Castle is the seat of J. S. Harford, Esq. Henbury Hill, on which Blaise Castle stands, had a double ditched Roman camp; has yielded many Roman coins and other relics; and commands an exceedingly varied and beautiful view.

The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Hallen, Aust, and Northwick, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £840. Patrons, Sir G. Smyth, Bart., Mrs. Colston, and the Rev. G. Gore. The church is early English; was repaired and enlarged in 1833; and comprises nave, aisles, and two porches, with low square tower. There are chapels for Baptists, Quakers, and Wesleyans, national schools, an endowed grammar school with £349, another endowed school with £235, and other charities with £267.

The hundred is cut into two divisions, lower and upper; the former containing Westbury-on-Trym parish and part of Henbury; the latter containing Compton-Greenfield, Stoke-Gifford, and Yate parishes, and parts of Henbury and Tytherington. Acres of the whole, 27,622. Pop., 7,377. Houses, 1,416.

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

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Henbury, a parish in Henbury hund., union of Clifton, county of Gloucester; 4 miles north- north-west of Bristol. It comprises the tythings of Charlton, Compton, King’s-Weston, Lawrence-Weston, and Stowick; the chapelries of Aust, Redwick, and Northwick; and the township of Henbury. Living, a discharged vicarage with the curacies of Aust and Northwick, formerly in the archd. of Gloucester and dio. of Bristol, now in the archd. of Bristol and dio. of Gloucester and Bristol, rated at £30; gross income £700. Tithes commuted in 1839; aggregate amount £838; rent charge £50 vicarial, and £641 4s. impropriated. Patrons, in 1835, Lord Middleton and others.

Here are 12 daily schools, one of which is endowed. Other charities, in 1827, £374 4s. 5d per annum; of which £191 19s. were applied to parochial purposes. Poor rates, in 1838, £1,154 15s. Blaise castle, in this parish, built by Thomas Parr, Esq., is situated on a conical hill, anciently the site of a Roman fortification. The views obtained from this elevation are exceedingly varied and beautiful. A great number of Roman coins and other antiquities have been found here. Acres 10,660. Houses 386. A. P. £13,504. Pop., in 1801, 1,544; in 1831, 2.351. Acres of the township 1,490. Houses 64. Pop., in 1801, 437; in 1831, 390.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Charlton

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Charlton, a tything, in the parish, and Upper division of the hundred, of Henbury, union of Clifton, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5½ miles (N.) from Bristol; containing 319 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Compton

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Compton, a tything in the parish of Henbury, county of Gloucester; 6 miles north-north-west of Bristol. Acres 1,610. Houses 26. Pop., in 1801, 151; in 1831, 1592). Other returns with the parish.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Kings Weston

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Kings-Weston, 5 m. N.W. Bristol. P. 269

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Lawrence Weston

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Lawrence-Weston, included in Henbury

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Northwick

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Northwick, 4 miles Bristol. P. 256

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Stowick

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Stowick, a tything in the parish of Henbury, union of Clifton, county of Gloucester; 5 miles north- north-west of Bristol. Acres 1,210. Houses 87. Pop., in 1801, 323; in 1831, 568. Other returns with the parish.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Stowick, co. Gloucester.

P.T. Bristol (114) 5 m. NNW. Pop. 407.

A tithing in the parish and lower division of the hundred of Henbury

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.

Redwick

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Redwick, 9 miles N. N. E. Bristol. P. 256

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850

Maps

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Administration

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