Stanway Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Stanway is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Taddington, Hornileazow.

Parish registers begin: 1573

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Stanway Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Stanway, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1573-1812

Stanway, 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.

Stanway, 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.

Stanway, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1988

Parish History

Stanway

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STANWAY, a parish, with a village and three hamlets, in Winchcomb district, Gloucester; 8½ miles SW of Campden r. station. It has a post-office under Cheltenham. Acres, 3,390. Real property, £3,528. Pop., 378. Houses, 86. The manor, with S. House, belongs to the Earl of Wemyss. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £250. Patron. the Earl of Wemyss. The church is good; and there are a national school, and charities £24.

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

Stanway, a parish in the upper division of the hund. of Tewksbury, union of Winchcombe, county of Gloucester; 3½ miles north-east by north of Winchcombe. Living, a discharged vicarage, formerly in the archd. and dio. of Gloucester, now in the dio. of Gloucester and Bristol; rated at £9, returned at £71 17s.; gross income £220. Tithes commuted in 1810. Patroness, in 1841, Lady Elcho. Here are 3 daily schools. Charities, in 1829, £9 18s. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £125 16s. Acres 3,390. Houses 78. A.P. £3,736. Pop., in 1801, 342; in 1831, 401

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Taddington

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Taddington, a hamlet in Stanway parish, Gloucester; 4 ¼ miles NE of Winchcomb.

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

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Taddington, a hamlet, in the parish of Stanway, union of Winchcomb, Upper division of the hundred of Tewkesbury, E. division of the county of Gloucester; containing 65 inhabitants.

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.

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.

Simmons Edw. & Thos., Stanway, Gloucestershire, timber dealers, Jan. 13, 1821.

Unitt Goodwin, Taddington, Stanway, Gloucestershire. farmer, Jan. 25. 1823.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Gloucestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Winchcomb
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
  • Rural Deanery: Campden until 1907; succeeded by Winchcombe
  • Poor Law Union: Winchcombe
  • Hundred: Tewkesbury
  • Province: Canterbury