Southrop, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Southrop is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin: 1656

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Southrop Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Southrop, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1617-1812

Southrop, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1877

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Southrop, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1877

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Southrop, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1983

Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences 1689 to 1837

The following have been extracted from Allegations for Marriage Licences in the county of Hampshire. Parishes without a named county are parishes within the county of Hampshire.

WALKER, William Joseph, of Southrop, co. Gloucester, clerk, 22, b., & Louisa Emily Manley, of South Warnborough, 22, sp., at S. W., 26 Aug., 1829. Aff.

Source: Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837 Published 1893 Editor: William John Charles Moens

Marriages at Southrop 1656-1837 – Transcriptions

Southrop Marriages 1813 to 1837

Volume IV.

William Dobbins & Sarah Vincent, 27 Feb. 1813

William Miles & Elizabeth Haynes, 23 Aug. 1813

Thomas Jefferies & Anne Falkner, 3 Jan. 1814

James Hawkins, of Little Coxwell, Berks, & Sarah Taylor, 15 July 1815

Thomas Parker & Anne Smith, 18 Jan. 1816

Robert Brown, of Eastleach Turville, & Mary Woodward, 16 Feb. 1818

William Newport Hinton, of Eastleach Turville, & Anne Mary Stevens, 26 Mar. 1818

Thos. Baker, of Eastleach, & Elizabeth Taylor, 27 Aug. 1818

John Newman & Mary Faulkner, 31 Dec. 1818

William Miles & Sarah Loughton, 4 May 1819

William Maunder & Sarah Kimber, 13 May 1819

William Castle & Frances Musty, 10 Apr. 1820

William Pritchard & Elizabeth Musty, 28 Oct. 1820

Robert Green & Hannah Newman, 2 Nov. 1820

Humphrey Tubb & Elizabeth Caudle, 18 Jan. 1821

Thomas Sellard & Mary Pinnock, 12 Nov. 1821

Elijah Lawrence, of St. Mary’s, Marlborough, Wilts, & Elizabeth Smith Lawrence, 6 Mar. 1822

Edward Beal, of Fairford, & Susanna Strong, 7 May 1822

William Hughes & Letitia Falkner, 20 June 1822

Charles Longford & Sarah Washbrook, 12 Oct. 1822

William Newport & Elizabeth Sellard, 3 May 1823

William Giles & Elizabeth Stephens, 19 May 1823

Joseph Hawtin & Sarah Sparrow, 21 Aug. 1823

William Maunder & Sarah Busby, 28 Aug. 1823

William Ivin, of Quenington, & Anne Musto, 10 Nov. 1823

Samuel Joy, of Poulton, & Anne Lawrence, 27 Dec. 1823

Thomas Kibble & Jane Brookes, 21 Feb. 1824

George Baxter, of Eastleach Turville, & Esther Pinnock, 21 Apr. 1824

Thos. Joy, of Clanfield, Oxon, & Rachel Hope, 7 Oct. 1824

William Sellard & Anne Haynes, 15 Dec. 1824

John Keble & Sarah Jones, of Eastleach Turville, 25 July 1825

William Lawrence, of Coln St. Aldwin’s, & Rebecca Lawrence, 11 July 1827

Jonathan Cull & Sarah Boutcher, 8 Sept. 1827

William Kite & Celia Cox, 30 Oct. 1827

Thomas Porter & Sarah Ebsworth, 31 Dec. 1827

Thomas Stone & Eliza Blackwell, 19 Jan. 1828

Robert Hinton, of Eastleach Turville, & Catherine Allen, 13 Feb. 1828

Benjamin Baker & Elizabeth Kibble, 1 Apr. 1828

James Hunt & Caroline Tubb, 14 May 1828

William Fletcher, of Kempsford, & Elizabeth Kite, 5 Jan. 1829

Robert Ebsworth & Priscilla Kite, 27 Apr. 1829

John Kite & Cicely Cox, 6 July 1829

Charles Tubb & Hannah Mansfield, 26 Oct. 1829

John Eldrige & Hannah Blackell, 21 Dec. 1829

Robert Cox & Elizabeth Day, 12 July 1830

Edward King, of Fairford, & Martha Jones, 25 Sept. 1830

William Miles & Mary Cook, 11 Oct. 1830

Thomas Johnson, of Wanborough, Wilts, & Ann Williams, 27 Nov. 1830

Uriah Hope, of Fairford, & Harriet Tubb, 9 Jan. 1832

Michele Cristofaro Gaetano Francesco Baron Carrascosa, of St. Marylebone, Middlesex, & Elizabeth Walker, 19 Jan. 1832

John Stevens & Dinah Sellard, 11 June 1832

James Hope & Sophia Warman, 26 July 1832

Thomas Keylock, of Fairford, & Mary Lapworth, 26 Jan. 1833

John Newman & Mary Wilkins, 8 Apr. 1833

William Male & Jane Edgeworth, 29 June 1833

Edward Trinder, of Windrush, & Dinah Cook, 24 Oct. 1833

Thomas Cox & Dinah Large, of Burthorpe, 10 Feb. 1835

William Willis, of Filkins, Oxford, & Harriet Cartwright Taylor, 25 July 1835

William Brown Tovey & Sarah Dobbins, 31 Aug. 1835

William Thomas, of Puriton, Somerset, & Elizabeth Baxter, 10 Nov. 1835

William Sellard & Elizabeth Hope, 28 Jan. 1836

Stephen Cox & Mary Ann Clark, 2 May 1836

Mark Cook & Sarah Bridgman, 28 Feb. 1837

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. XIII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1908.

Southrop Marriages 1775 to 1812

William Cox & Elizabeth Turnor, 2 July 1776

Nathan Right, of Witney, Oxon, & Christian Trueman, 12 Aug. 1776

Thomas Hains, of Whelford, Kempsford, & Ann Musty, 28 Oct. 1776

William Green, of Bothrop, & Mary Falkner, 12 Nov. 1776

Robert Berry, of Fifield, Bothrop, & Dinah Hathaway, 8 Feb. 1777

John Parker & Sarah Cull, 3 Nov. 1778

Joseph Peapel, of Hannington, Wilts, & Mary Barrett, 24 July 1779

Christopher Driver & Mary Carter, 11 Aug. 1779

John Moss & Mary Musty, 3 Apr. 1780

William Trotman & Maria Major, 18 July 1781

Richard Porter, of Ducklington, & Letitia Falkner, 6 Jan. 1784

Lewis Herbert & Mary Skinner, 8 May 1784

James Cox, of Letcombe Regis, Berks, & Hannah Francis, 7 Feb. 1785

Richard Blackwell & Elizabeth Skinner, 25 July 1785

William Jones, of Eastleach, & Elizabeth Newman, 27 July 1785

John Hope & Jane Merrick, 3 Oct. 1786

John Newman & Mary Taylor, 19 Oct. 1786

Thomas Collins & Sarah Smith, 13 Nov. 1786

William Dobins & Susannah Cox, 28 Jan. 1788

Benjamin Porter & Jane Tuckwell, 19 Apr. 1790

James Musty & Ann Millar, 3 Jan. 1791

William Piggett & Ester Turner, 20 Oct. 1791

Thomas Musty & Jane Simpson, 5 Jan. 1792

John Parker & Sarah Herbert, 20 July 1793

Robert Sellard & Dina Smith, 5 Dec. 1793

William Claridge, of Chipping Norton, & Ester Tubb, 26 Dec. 1793

John Hambidge & Elizabeth Tuckwell, 1 Jan. 1794

John Day & Sabina Howes, 21 Dec. 1794

John Scotford & Elizabeth Sparrow, 19 July 1795

Daniel Miller & Cordelia Hemming, 2 Apr. 1796

Thomas Collins & Mary Vincent, 16 May 1796

John Tubb & Sarah Francis, 16 Apr. 1797

William Lapworth & Jane Smith, 21 Oct. 1797

Thomas Adams, of Chipping Faringdon, & Hester Maccabee, 24 Apr. 1798

Wm. Pinnock, of North Cerney, & Ann Tubb, 26 May 1798

William Crew, of Fairford, & Izard Shailer, 11 June 1798

John Austin, of Broad Blunsdon, Highworth, Wilts, & Martha Mills, 1 July 1798

Anthony Taylor & Elizabeth Francis, 23 July 1798

Edward Stephens & Hannah Uzzell, 31 July 1798

John Hawkins & Ann Taylor, 25 Oct. 1798

Timothy Dobson, of Kidderminster, Worcester, & Sarah Wheeler, 24 Jan. 1799

Giles Ebsworth & Elizabeth Lewis, 14 Oct. 1799

Thomas Musty & Mary Sparrow, 18 Jan. 1800

John Frebury, of Leafield, Fairford, & Anne Hart, 5 July 1800

Charles Wheeler & Elizabeth Haggard, 17 July 1800

James Brown & Sarah Watts, 26 Mar. 1801

William Tovey & Jane Newman, 13 Oct. 1801

Richard Newman & Hannah Clifford, 13 Oct. 1801

William Peak & Mary Gardiner, 12 Apr. 1802

John Stone & Anne Brooker, 14 May 1804

William Bown, of Stow, & Sarah Clifford, 13 Aug. 1804

Robert Coles, of Coln St. Dennis, & Priscilla Baker, 9 Oct. 1804

John Stevens & Mary Tubb, 11 Nov. 1805

Edmund Miles & Ann Bowle, 26 Apr. 1806

Wm. Watts, of Barnsley, & Hannah Sparrow, 13 Nov. 1806

John Cook & Harriet Harris, 10 Dec. 1806

Richard Claridge, of Oddington, & Mary Baker, 23 Dec. 1806

William Loughton, of Eastleach Martin, & Sarah Bristow, 8 Oct. 1807

William Cox & Diana Adkins, 30 May 1808

Richard Bridgeman & Margaret Greenhalf, 15 Oct. 1808

William Legge & Caroline Whitmath, 21 Jan. 1809

Joseph Peachey & Lucy Stevens, 5 Dec. 1809

William Taylor & Alice Watts, 11 Jan. 1810

George Loughton & Ann Tichner, 29 Apr. 1811

Joseph Iles & Sarah Weaver, 3 June 1811

Daniel Pullam, of Aston Blank, & Eliz. Berry, 4 Jan. 1812

Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. XIII. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1908.

Historical Directories

Southrop Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856

Southrop is a township, village and parish, 3 ½ miles from Lechlade, in the Hundred of Brightwells Barrow, Northleach Union, and bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. Peter was repaired about 1852; it comprises, in its styles of architecture, the Norman and early English. The Rev. Joseph Walker, M.A., is the incumbent. The living is a vicarage, of the annual value of about £210, in the gift of the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford, who are also lords of the manor. The charities amount to £6 14s. per annum. The population, in 1851, was 425. Here is a Parochial school for the instruction of the children of the inhabitants. The acreage of the parish, 1,427; glebe, 54 acres.

Gentry
Green Mr. Robert
Smith Charles, esq. J.P.
Walker Rev. Jsph. M.A. [vicar], Vicarage

Traders

Baxter Richd., shopkeeper & beer retailer
Cull Jonathan, boot & shoe maker
Jefferies Thomas, blacksmith
Lawrence Elijah, grocer & draper
Miller Henry, carpenter & wheelwright
Miller James, carpenter & wheelwright
Newman George, land surveyor
Newman John, miller
Parker Richard, stonemason
Pinnock William, baker
Rawlings William, ‘Swan’

Letters through Lechlade, which is also the nearest money order office.

Carrier – William Pinnock, to Cirencester, on Monday

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.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SOUTHROP, a parish, with a village, in Northleach district, Gloucester; 3 miles NNW of Lechlade, and 12 S by E of Bourton-on-the-Water r. station. Post town, Lechlade, under Swindon. Acres, 1,453. Real property, £2,407. Pop., 362. Houses, 79. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £210. Patron, Wadham College, Oxford. The church is Norman and early English, and was repaired in 1852. There are a parochial school, and charities £7.

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

Maps

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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: Fairford
  • Poor Law Union: Northleach
  • Hundred: Brightwells Barrow
  • Province: Canterbury