Kempley, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Kempley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish church: St Mary

Parish registers begin: 1637

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Kempley Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Kempley, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1569-1812

Kempley, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1903

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Kempley, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1755-1861

Kempley, St Mary, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1837-1938

Death and Burial Records

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

Kempley, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1988

Historical Directories

Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863

KEMPLEY is a small straggling parish, situated on confines of Herefordshire, and near the turnpike leading from Gloucester and Newent through Dymock to Much-Marcle in Herefordshire, distant 8 miles north north east from Ross, 7 south south west from Ledbury, 7 north north west from Newent, and 15 west north west from Gloucester railway station, in Botloe hundred, Newent union and county court district, West Gloucestershire, archdeaconry of Gloucester, northern division of the deanery the Forest, and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.

Hankins Mr John
Jones Rev. Edward Baptist
Street Rev. A.J. B.A. curate, Vicarage

COMMERCIAL

Bailey Thomas farmer Brick house
Ball Joseph shoemaker
Barnes Samuel farmer
Blewett Ephraim farmer Lower house
Brookes John farmer Prior’s court
Brookes Mary Mrs farmer Cakes frm
Bull Joseph shoemaker

Cadle Cornelius farmer Stonehouse farm
Cummins John farmer Matthews farm

Hill James farmer Bridges farm
Hill Joseph farmer Seysell’s
Hodges Henry blacksmith
Hook William farmer Folly

Howell Mary Mrs carrier

Jones John farmer Turner’s farm
Jones Reuben carpenter
Jones Samuel farmer
Jones William shoemaker

Lewis Samuel carpenter

Palmer Allan farmer Kempley court
Palmer John farmer Green farm
Phelps James farmer Moor house
Phillips John shopkeeper

Smith James farmer Bullock’s end
Stephens John shoemaker

Tyler John tailor

Wintle Edmund shopkeeper & beer retailer Little Adam

Letters through Dymock The nearest money order office is at Ledbury,

CARRIER Mrs Mary Howell to Newent & Gloucester saturday; to Ross & Ledbury thursday

Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol, Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1863.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KEMPLEY, a parish in Newent district, Gloucester; adjacent to Hereford, 5 miles NW of Newent, and 6 SW by S of Ledbury r. station. Post town, Dymock, under Gloucester. Acres, 1,564. Real property, £2,247. Pop., 311. Houses, 71. The property is divided among a few.

The manor and much of the land belong to Earl Beauchamp. Stone-House, formerly the manor house, is large, and of the 16th century; contains some very fine oak carving; and is now used as a farm house. Cider and perry are largely made.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £204. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is ancient, with good points, but needs to be restored; contains a Norman arch, between the nave and the chancel; and has a tower much out of the perpendicular, and formerly surmounted by a spire. A national school was about to be built in 1866. Charities, £14.

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: Newent
  • Probate Court: Post-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory), Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Hereford
  • Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
  • Rural Deanery: Forest
  • Poor Law Union: Newent
  • Hundred: Botloe
  • Province: Canterbury