Quedgeley Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Quedgeley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Gloucestershire, created from a chapelry in Gloucester St Owen Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Woolstrop.
Parish Church: St James the Apostle
Parish registers begin: 1559
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Adjacent Parishes
- Elmore
- Hardwicke
- Whaddon
- Standish
- Hempsted
- Gloucester St Mary de Lode
- Gloucester South Hamlet
- Matson
Parish History
Quedgeley
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Quedgeley, a village and a parish in the district and county of Gloucester. The village stands near the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, 3 miles S S W of Gloucester r. station; and has a post-office under Gloucester. The parish contains also the hamlet of Woolstrop, and comprises 1,453 acres. Real property, £4,578; of which £1,000 are in the canal. Pop., 408. Houses, 80. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Q. House, belongs to J. Hayward, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £230. Patron, J. Hayward, Esq. The church is decorated English; was recently repaired; and consists of nave, aisles, chancel, and porch, with tower and spire. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Quedgley, 4m. S. Gloucester. P.276
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Woolstrop
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Woolstrop, a hamlet in the parish of Quedgeley, hund. of Dudstone and King’s-Barton. county of Gloucester; 5 miles north by east of Gloucester. Acres 90. Houses 5. A. P. with parish. Pop., in 1801, 35 ; in 1831, 39.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Woolstrop, in Quedgley par. P. 46
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Parish Registers
Marriages at Quedgeley 1559 to 1836
Transcriptions
Parish Records
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Poll Books
Quedgeley Poll Book 1834 – Google Books
Gloucestershire Historical Directories
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Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Gloucester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Gloucester
- Poor Law Union: Gloucester
- Hundred: Dudstone and King’s Barton; Whitstone (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury