Stanway Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Stanway is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Other places in the parish include: Taddington, Hornileazow.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1573
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Cutsdean Worcestershire
- Temple Guiting
- Bourton on the Hill
- Hailes
- Toddington
- Didbrook
- Snowshill
- Guiting Power
- Stanton
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.
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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