Saintbury Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Saintbury is a small village and parish in Evesham union, Worcestershire, containing by the census of 1861, 121, and in 1861, 135 inhabitants, with 1336 acres; in the deanery of Campden, archdeaconry of Gloucester, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, the upper division of Kiftsgate hundred, East Gloucestershire; 3 ¼ miles from Honeybourn Station on the West Midlands section of the Great Western Railway, 3 west from Chipping Campden, 7 south-east from Evesham, 30 north-east from Gloucester, and 91 from London.

The rectory, in the incumbency of the Rev. Charles Walker Simons, M.A., is valued at £415 per annum, with residence, and is in the patronage of James Roberts West, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, consists of north and south aisles and chancel, with tower surmounted by a spire containing 6 bells.

There are National Schools for children of both sexes. In the village is an ancient cross having a sun-dial near the top. The representatives of the late Sir John Maxwell Steelegrave, Bart., are lords of the manor. The rateable value of this parish is £2197.

Simons Rev. Charles Walker, M.A., The Rectory

Trades and Professions

Bloxsidge John, farmer, Newcombe
Drury James, farmer
Rimell John, farmer
Smith Thomas, farmer, Lower farm
Ward Caleb, farmer, Saintbury grounds

Letters through Broadway, which is the nearest money order office.

Source: Morris & Co.’s commercial Directory & Gazetteer of Gloucestershire with Bristol and Monmouth. Second Edition. Hounds Gate, Nottingham. 1876.

Saintbury Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863

Saintbury is a small village and parish, 4 miles from Church Honeybourne station on the West Midland line of railway, 30 from Gloucester, 7 from Evesham, 3 from Campden, and about 91 north-west from London, in the hundred of Upper Kiftsgate, division of Moreton, rural deanery of Campden, archdeaconry of Gloucester, bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol, and Evesham union and county court district.

The church of St. Nicholas is a stone building, having a spire, aisles, chancel, and 6 bells. The living is a rectory, annual value £415, with residence, in the gift of James Roberts West, Esq., of Alscot house, near Stratford-on-Avon; the Rev. William Barrett is the incumbent. The population in 1861 was 121; the acreage of the parish is 1,336; rateable value, £1,910. Sir John Maxwell Steele-Grave, Bart., is lord of the manor.

Parish Clerk, William Smith.

Barrett Rev. William [rector]
Nightingale Mrs

COMMERCIAL.

Ellis Daniel, farmer
Rimell John, farmer
Stanley William, carrier
Ward Caleb, farmer, Saintbury grounds
Ward Edward, farmer
White Stephen, plasterer

Letters are received through Broadway, which is the nearest money order office.

National School, Mrs. Ann White, mistress.

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.

Poll Books

Poll Book 1834, Eastern Division Gloucestershire The Poll at the Election of a Knight of The Shire to serve in Parliament for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucestershire taken August 11th and 12th 1834 before Harry Edmund Waller, Esquire, High Sheriff. Candidate Christopher William Codrington, Esquire, and Charles Hanbury Tracy Leigh, Esquire. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish History

Saintbury The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SAINTBURY, a parish in the district of Evesham and county of Gloucester; 1½ mile N E by N of Broadway, and 3¾ S of Honeybourne r. station. Post-town, Broadway. Acres, 1,336. Real property, £2,288. Pop., 121. Houses, 27. The manor was anciently called Suineberie, after King Sweyne; and belongs now to Sir J. M. Steele-Grave, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese o Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £415. Patron, J. R. West, Esq. The church is good, and has a spire. Charities, £6.

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

Saintbury Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Saintbury (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Evesham, Upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, E division of the county of Gloucester, 2 ¼ miles (W) from Chipping-Campden; containing 133 inhabitants. The parish comprises 1336a. 22p.; the surface is diversified with hills; the soil in the lower grounds is a strong clay, and in the upper of lighter quality; in the valleys are some good meadows, and the remainder is productive arable land.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £19. 9. 4½.; net income, £415; patron, J. R. West, Esq. The church has undergone various alterations, but there is still a Norman door remaining. Castle Bank, an ancient camp in the parish, is ascribed to the Danes, and supposed to have been dependent upon a larger one upon the summit of the same hill, in the adjoining parish of Willersey.

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.

Maps

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Administration

County: Gloucestershire
Civil Registration District: Evesham
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
Rural Deanery: Campden
Poor Law Union: Evesham
Hundred: Kiftsgate
Province: Canterbury