Longborough Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Longborough is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire. Sezincote is a chapelry of Longborough
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Parish registers begin: 1676
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LONGBOROUGH, a parish, with a village, in Stow-on-the-Wold district, Gloucester; on the Fosse way, 3 miles SW of Moreton r. station. Post town, Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 2,770. Real property, £4,243. Pop., 655. Houses, 152.
The manor belongs to Lord Leigh; and most of the land, to Lord Leigh, E. T. Godman, Esq., and Sir R. Rushout, Bart. Banks Fee is the seat of E. T. Godman, Esq. A Roman settlement was at or near the village.
The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Seasoncote, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £221. Patrons, Lord Leigh and Sir R. Rushout, Bart. The church is Norman; and comprises transept, aisle, and chancel, with a pinnacled tower. There are an Independent chapel, and charities £5.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer 1848
Longborough with Bankfee, a parish in the upper division of the hund. of Kiftsgate, union of Stow-on-the-Wold, county of Gloucester; 3 miles north by west of Stow-on-the-Wold.
Living, a discharged vicarage with the rectory of Sezincote, formerly in the archd. and dio. of Gloucester, now in the dio. of Gloucester and Bristol; rated at £5 15s.; gross income £235. Rectorial and vicarial tithes commuted in 1794. Patrons, in 1835, C. Leigh, Esq., and Sir C. Cockerell, Bart. Here is a day and Sunday school. Charities, in 1829, £4 10s. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £283 8s. Acres 2.770. Houses 137. A. P. £4,075. Pop., in 1801, 473; in 1831, 619.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1848.
Bank Fee Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Bankfee See Longborough. 2 m. from Stow
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Parish Registers
Marriages Out of Parish
Below is a list of people who were from Longborough but who were married in another parish.
Daniel Taylor, of Longborough, co. Gloucester, & Ann Bishop, s. 11 Feb. 1766 at North & Middle Littleton, Worcestershire.
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Stow on the Wold
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Stow
- Poor Law Union: Stow on the Wold
- Hundred: Kiftsgate
- Province: Canterbury