North Nibley Gloucestershire Family History Guide
North Nibley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Gloucestershire, created in 1743 from a chapelry in Wotton under Edge Ancient Parish.
Parish registers begin: 1567
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
North Nibley Parish Registers
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
North Nibley, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1567-1812
North Nibley, 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.
North Nibley, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
North Nibley, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1929
Marriage Licences and Allegations
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Clough, Jarvis, of Ashton-in-Maskerfield, co. Lancaster, gent., bachelor, 30, and Anne Archer, of Nybley, co. Gloucester, spinster, 25 and upwards, at her own disposal — at St. Dnnstan-in-the-West, London, or … . 18 July, 1701. F.
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Nibley (North), a village and a parish in Dursley district, Gloucester. The village stands under a knoll of the Cotswolds, 1¼ mile E of the Bristol and Gloucester railway, 2 N W of Wotton-under-Edge, and 2 S W of Dursley r. station. It is supposed to have been the birth-place of Tyndale, the translator of the Bible; and has a post-office under Dursley. A monument to Tyndale was erected in 1866, on Nibley Knoll, overhanging the village.
The parish comprises 3,245 acres. Real property, £6, 324. Pop. in 1851, 1,133; in 1861, 1,020. Houses, 246. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Earl Fitzhardinge. The right to the manor was fought between the Berkeleys and the Lisles, in 1470, on Nibley-Green. There is a woollen cloth factory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £160. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is mainly later English; but the chancel was recently rebuilt, and is in the early English style. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £91 a year, and charities about £33.
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.
Brinkworth John, North Nibley, Gloucestershire, clothier, Aug. 23, 1839.
Comley George, North Nibley, Gloucestershire, clothier, May 11, 1841.
The London Gazette
Discharge of Prisoners
The people listed below were discharged as a prisoners in the debtors prison.
Joseph Long formerly of the White Hart Inn North Nibley Gloucestershire Innkeeper and Farmer and late of Berkeley heath near Berkeley Gloucestershire aforesaid Farmer – 27 March 1851 – The London Gazette
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Dursley
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Dursley
- Poor Law Union: Dursley
- Hundred: Berkeley (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury