Shipton Oliffe, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Shipton Oliffe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire. The civil parish of Shipton Oliffe was abolished in 1871 to create Shipton Civil Parish.
Other places included in the parish: Hampen (also partly in the parish of Sevenhampton)
Parish registers begin: 1666
Nonconformists include: Strict Baptist
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Shipton Oliffe Parish Registers
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Shipton Oliffe and Shipton Sollars, 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.
Shipton Oliffe, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938
Shipton Oliffe and Shipton Sollars, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1924
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Shipton Oliffe and Shipton Sollars, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1978
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHIPTON-OLIFFE, a parish, with a village, in Northleach district, Gloucester; 7 miles ESE of Cheltenham r. station. Post town, Andoversford, under Cheltenham. Acres, 1,050. Real property, £1,683. Pop., 255. Houses, 56. The manor belongs to G Fletcher, Esq. Limestone is plentiful. The living is a rectory, united with Shipton-Sollars, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £450. Patron, W. Peachy, Esq. The church is Norman and good. There is a free school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Shipton-Oliffe, a parish in the hund. of Bradley, union of Northleach, county of Gloucester; 5½ miles north-west by west of Northleach. Living, a rectory with that of Shipton-Sollars, formerly in the archd. and dio. of Gloucester, now in the dio. of Gloucester and Bristol; rated at £7 5s. 9d.; gross income £412. Tithes commuted in 1791. Patron, in 1841, W. G. Peachey. Here is a Sunday school. Acres 1,050. Houses 44. A. P. £1,336. Pop., in 1801, with Shipton-Sollars, 239; in 1831, exclusive of Shipton-Sollars, 229. Poor rates, in 1838, £78 16s.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Historical Directories
Hampen Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856
Hampen is a small hamlet, partly in the parish of Sevenhampton, and partly in that of Shipton Oliffe, distant about 2 miles east of Andoversford, and 5 west from Northleach, and consists of the residence of T. B. Browne, Esq., and a flax and bone mill and one farm. The population is about 80. T. R. Browne, Esq., is owner of the soil.
Browne Thos. Beale, esq. Hampen ho
Handy Thomas, farmer, Hampen farm
Browne Thomas Beale, flax & bone mills
Letters through Northleach, which is also the nearest money order office.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Northleach
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
- Rural Deanery: Northleach
- Poor Law Union: Northleach
- Hundred: Bradley
- Province: Canterbury