Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Stinchcombe is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Parish church: St. Cyril
Parish registers begin: 1582
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
STINCHCOMBE, a parish, with a village, in Dursley district, Gloucester; 2 miles WNW of Dursley r. station. It has a post-office under Dursley. Acres, 1,464. Real property, £2,705. Pop., 340. Houses, 77. The manor belongs to the Rev. Sir G. Prevost, Bart. Stancombe Park is the seat of P. B. Purnell, Esq. Stinchcombe Hill commands an extensive view. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £65. Patron, the Bishop of G. and B. The church, excepting tower and spire, was rebuilt in 1855. There are a national school, and charities £25.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Stinchcombe (St. Cyril), a parish, in the union of Dursley, Upper division of the hundred of Berkeley, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (W. by N.) from dursley; containing 393 inhabitants. The parish embraces a portion of the Cotswold hills, and consists of 1393 acres, of which 55 are common or waste land. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £65; patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol; impropriators, P. B. Purnell, Esq., and others, whose tithes have been commuted for £240. A school is endowed, and further supported by the parish.
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.
Parish Records
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Parish Registers
Marriages at Stinchcombe 1583 to 1812
Gloucestershire Parish Registers Marriages Vol 2 does not contain the registers for the period 1754 to 1784. Between the publication of Volume 2 and volume 6 the missing registers were found and the whole register was printed in volume 6.
Transcriptions
Marriages at Stinchcombe 1800 to 1812
Thomas Symons, p. Westbury-on-Severn, & Lucy Woodward, lic., 2 Mar. 1800
Benjamin Woodward & Mary Gazard, 25 Aug. 1800
Thomas Trotman, p. Dursley, & Susanna Parslow, lic., 26 Oct. 1800
Luke Butcher & Betty Higgins, 15 Dec. 1800
Joshua Matthews, p. Avening, & Elizabeth Curnock, w., lic., 22 Jan. 1801
John Williams & Ann Gray, 29 June 1801
Henry Parker & Sarah Siniger, 31 July 1801
James Roe & Phebe Holloway, 10 Oct. 1801
Thomas Nelms & Mary Smith, 6 May 1802
William Williams & Elizabeth Workman, lic., 4 Nov. 1802
Richard Bartlett & Hester Turner, 4 Dec. 1802
Joseph Turner & Mary Summers, 29 Dec. 1802
John Bennett & Ann Elliott, 2 Jan. 1803
William Pagler & Mary Woodward, 25 Sept. 1803
John Gosling & Elizabeth Ricketts, 11 June 1804
Job Chapel & Martha Cook, 28 Jan. 1805
Frederick Mabbett & Elizabeth Gazard, lic., 6 June 1805
John Ricketts & Elizabeth Weyman, 14 Aug. 1805
Christopher Gazard, this p., & Margaret White, p. N. Nibley, 1 Oct. 1805
William Woodward & Hannah Workman, 1 Oct. 1805
Thomas Heaven, p. Shipton-Moyne, & Martha Workman, 14 Apr. 1806
John Knott, p. Moreton-Valence, & Elizabeth Bendall, 17 Mar. 1807
John Gainer & Tabitha Cox, lic., 1 June 1807
Richard Merrett & Elizabeth Grafton, 1 Dec. 1807
Henry Clifford Clifford, p. Frampton-on-Severn, & Elizabeth Wallington, lic., 28 Apr. 1808
John Woodward & Ann Organ, 3 May 1808
Richard White, p. Coaley, & Ann Gazard, lic., 30 Aug. 1808
James Cooper & Mary Workman, 13 Nov. 1808
John Hobbs, p. Horsley, & Elizabeth Gray, 1 May 1809
William Gazard, this p., & Hester Pearce, p. Berkeley, lic., 9 July 1810
Joseph Dimery & Ann Hooper, lic., 14 Sept. 1811
William Hampton & Elizabeth Bird, 12 Oct. 1811
William Goldsworthy, p. Cromwell, & Maria Hale, lic., 18 Jan. 1812
George Roberts & Keziah Woodward, 12 Apr. 1812
Joseph Sims, sen., w., & Esther Cox, lic., 9 July 1812
William Limbrick & Ann Woodward, 2 Nov. 1812
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900.
Marriages at Stinchcombe 1785 to 1799
John Chappell, p. Oldbury-on-Hill, & Sarah Mallet, w., lic., 2 Feb. 1785
James Parker, p. Wotton-under-Edge, & Elizabeth Pitt, lic., 3 May 1785
Samuel Attwood, w., & Margaret Osburn, 10 Oct. 1785
James Morgan, p. Dursley, & Esther Wallington, 6 Dec. 1785
Aaron Lewis & Mary Malpas, 1 May 1786
James Shipton & Elizabeth Hale, 12 June 1786
Thomas Coopey, p. Cam, & Sarah Nelms, 10 Sept. 1786 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
William Derrett & Mary Ricketts, 25 Dec. 1786 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
Stephen Woodward, w., & Betty Derrett, 28 May 1787
Daniel Cull, p. Dursley, & Sarah Parslow, lic., 10 Apr. 1788
James Elliotts & Mary Vizard, 25 Sept. 1788
Thomas Hyatt & Elianor Watts, 20 Oct. 1788
Thomas Tidman, w., p. N. Nibley, & Sarah Williams, lic., 18 May 1789
John Cornelius Hands, p. Berkeley, & Mary Sims, lic., 3 Jan. 1790
Richard Williams & Rachel Derrett, 26 Apr. 1790
James White, p. Coaley, & Ann Parslow, lic., 27 Apr. 1790
Richard Pride, p. Berkeley, & Elizabeth Witts, w., lic., 3 Dec. 1790 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
William Marsh, p. Leonard Stanley, & Elizabeth Browne, lic., 12 June 1791 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
John Kendal & Ann Poulton, 7 Aug. 1791 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
John Bendall & Jane Dancey, 17 Dec. 1791 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
Daniel Workman, p. N. Nibley, & Betty Woodward, lic., 29 Jan. 1792 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
John King, p. Dursley, & Sarah Cull, w., lic., 31 Mar. 1792
William Beard, p. Fretherne, & Lucy Woodward, lic., 24 May 1792 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
William Savage, w., & Mary Lewis, w., 19 June 1792 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
William Jenkins, p. N. Nibley, & Mary Chapel, 15 Oct. 1792
Jonah Woodward & Sarah Bendall, 27 Dec. 1792
Solomon Morgan & Sarah Attwood, 23 Sept. 1793
James Daw, p. Berkeley, & Dinah Mabbett, lic., 6 Nov. 1793
William Draysey & Sarah Lord, 25 Dec. 1793
William Nelmes & Betty Watts, 4 June 1794
George Seaborne, p. Cam, & Elizabeth Clark, 2 Sept. 1794
James Hadley & Elizabeth Blanch, 8 Oct. 1794 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
Thomas Bence & Mary Bendall, 27 Apr. 1795
Cornelius Gazard, p. N. Nibley, & Sophia Vernon, lic., 10 Sept. 1795
Abram Elliotts & Hannah Woodward, 17 May 1796 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
Thomas Summers, p. Cam, & Sophia Bird, 1 Aug. 1796 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
John Workman & Elizabeth Robinson, 27 Dec. 1796 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
George Pearce, p. Berkeley, & Martha Mabbett, lic., 3 Apr. 1797 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
William Purchas, p. Cam, & Ann Hale, 3 Apr. 1797 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
Joseph Pearce, p. Slimbridge, & Alice Sims, lic., 24 May 1797 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
William Hill & Ann Howel, 5 Oct. 1797 (Bishop’s Transcripts)
Thomas Edwards & Mary Parslow, lic., 29 Nov. 1797
Joseph Baker, w., & Ann Woodward, w., 13 Dec. 1797
George Cook, p. Slimbridge, & Martha Gazard, 7 Oct. 1798
[No Marriages entered for 1799.]
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900.
Gloucestershire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Dursley
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Dursley
- Poor Law Union: Dursley
- Hundred: Berkeley (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury