Tormarton, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Tormarton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire. West Littleton and Acton Turville are chapelries of Tormarton.
Parish church: St. Mary Magdalene
Parish registers begin: 1679
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Adjacent Parishes
- West Kington, Wiltshire
- Wapley with Codrington
- West Littleton
- Nettleton, Wiltshire
- Badminton
- Dyrham
- Old Sodbury
- Dodington
- Acton Turville
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TORMARTON, a parish in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester; 4 miles SE of Chipping-Sodbury, and 5 SE by E of Yate r. station. Post town, Chippenham. Acres, 2,645. Real property, £4,125. Pop., 464. Houses, 99. The manor belongs to the Duke of Beaufort. The living is a rectory, united with Acton-Turville and West Littleton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £800. Patron, the Duke of Beaufort. The church is ancient, and has been beautifully restored. There are a national school, and charities £9.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Parish Registers
Marriages at Tormarton with West Littleton, 1600 to 1812; Including Acton Turville 1754 to 1812
Note. – The Register commences in 1679. Some of the Marriages recorded were solemnized at the Chapel-of-Ease at W. Littleton, but most of them in Tormarton Church. Volume I ends 1721.
Volume II includes Baptisms and Burials 1721 – 1812, and Marriages 1721 – 1753.
Volume III contains Marriages only, on the usual printed forms, 1754 – 1812; it is headed: “A Marriage Register Book for the Rectory of Tormarton, with the Chapelries of Littleton and Turvilsacton.” As printed, T. = Tormarton, L. = West Littleton, and A. = Acton Turville.
There are Transcripts in the Diocesan Registry at Gloucester for Tormarton with West Littleton prior to 1679 for the following years: 1578 no Marriages, 1599-1602, 1605, 1606, 1607, 1609, 1612, 1613, 1617, 1618, 1620-5, 1627-9, 1632, 1637-8. 1640, 1660-4, 1667-72, 1675, and 1678. Of these the Transcripts for nineteen years contain no Marriage entries.
The Marriage entries have been copied from the Transcripts and the Register by Rev. W. Symonds, M.A., and are printed with the sanction of the Rev. T. J. Bowen, B.D., Rector of Tormarton.
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.
Transcriptions
Tormarton Marriages 1800 to 1812
[As printed, T. = Tormarton, L. = West Littleton, and A. = Acton Turville.]
Thomas Sealy & Ann Mayer, both of L., 29 Mar. 1800
Samuel Strange & Sarah Hopkins, both of T., 29 Dec. 1800
Thomas Watts & Mary Marsh, both of T., 20 July 1801
John Godwin, of Wapley, & Hannah Andrews, of L., lic., 22 Oct. 1801
James Cottrel & Eleanor Pendock, both of T., 23 Dec. 1801
William Bleak & Anne Strange, both of L., 28 Apr. 1802
Joseph Edwards, of Dodington, & Ann Little, of T., 30 May 1802
Thomas Bullock & Sarah Dickenson, both of T., 12 Oct. 1802
John Gale & Ann Sutton, both of T., 18 Oct. 1802
Thomas Fidding Manning, of Uley, b., & Sarah Osborne, w., of T., lic., 10 Jan. 1803
Joseph Hawkins, of T., & Sarah Edwards, of Dodington, 29 Jan. 1803
James Coombs & Rachel Sheepway, both of A., 3 Feb. 1803
James Ball, of Dirham, & Ann Hendy, of T., 30 May 1803
William Sargant & Alice Bird, both of T., *27 May 1804
William Woodman, of Gt. Badminton, & Elizabeth Stanmore, of A., *21 May 1804
Jeremiah Hunt, of Batheaston, Som., & Ann Bullock, of T., *29 Apr. 1804
Joseph Eastmead & Mary Hall, both of A., 21 May 1804
Isaac Besent & Alice Russell, both of A., 20 Sept. 1804
Thomas Alway, of Horton, & Mary Arnold, of T., lic., 7 Mar. 1805
Edward Rolph & Mary Newman, both of A., 18 Mar. 1805
Thomas Webb, of T., & Sarah Hancock, of Dodington, 6 Apr. 1805
Robert Benjamin & Edith Hill, both of L., 2 May 1805
Daniel Blake & Sarah Baker, both of L., 21 Oct. 1805
Jeremiah Russell, w., & Elizabeth Shellard, w., both of A., 7 Apr. 1806
Nathan Shellard & Martha Gale, both of T., 8 July 1806
William Skinson & Elizabeth Lovelock, both of T., 27 Sept. 1806
Thomas Shapland, of Marshfield, & Ann Hatherell, of A., lic., 11 Nov. 1806
William Way Burne, of Grittleton, Wilts, clerk, & Caroline Poyntz, of T., lic., 27 Nov. 1806
James Yeels & Sarah Read, both of T., *26 Sept. 1807
John Harding & Sarah Comeley, both of A., *17 May 1807
Collatinus Rawlings, of Colerne, Wilts, & Mary Snell, of L., lic., *16 May 1807
William Benjamin & Elizabeth Dancy, both of L., 14 Sept. 1807
Thomas Edmunds, of Malmesbury, & Elizabeth Sims, of L., 14 Feb. 1808
John Bennett & Jane Arnold, both of T., lic., 21 Apr. 1808
William Reed & Milly Webb, both of T., 11 Oct. 1808
William Bushell & Elizabeth Turner, both of T. 11 Oct. 1808
Thomas Jones, of W. Kington, Wilts, & Mary Daniel, of T., 26 Nov. 1808
Stephen Fielding & Mary Smith, both of A., 23 Jan. 1809
Joseph Walker, of Old Sodbury, & Elizabeth Hunt, of T., 21 Mar. 1809
John Eastmead & Sophia Gardener, both of A., 13 Aug. 1809
Abraham Blake & Eleanor Reed, both of L., 23 Apr. 1810
James Reed & Mary Hunt, both of T., 7 Oct. 1810
James Ralph & Catherine Newman, both of A., 25 Nov. 1810
Daniel Shellard, of A., & Elizabeth Woodman, of Littleton Drew, Wilts, 18 Apr. 1811
William Brown & Jane White, both of A., 14 Aug. 1811
Francis Hendy & Catherine Ellison, both of T., 13 Oct. 1811
William Mitchell, of T., & Sarah Hall, of L., 15 Oct. 1811
*This order.
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
Tormarton Marriages 1785 to 1799
[As printed, T. = Tormarton, L. = West Littleton, and A. = Acton Turville.]
Thomas Marriott, of Newnham, N. Hants, & Charlotte Williamson, of T., 25 Jan. 1785
Robert Sansbury & Hester Shellard, both of A., 28 June 1786
George Dancy & Hester Newman, both of T., 23 Oct. 1785
James Walker, of L., & Hannah Hawkins, of Dirham, 23 Oct. 1785
James Russell & Betty Marsh, w., both of A., lic., 19 Dec. 1785
Francis Hendy & Christiana Bushell, both of T., 21 Apr. 1786
Thomas Hopkins & Sarah Russell, both of A., 18 June 1786
William Pincott & Ann Ball, both of T., 5 Jan. 1787
Paul Brown & Deborah Brooks, both of A., 23 Oct. 1786
James Jefferies & Martha Watkins, both of T., 1 Apr. 1787
Richard Gale, b., & Sarah Packer, w., both of L., 20 Jan. 1788
William Ship, of Walcot, Som., & Ann Sweatman, of T., 1 Oct. 1787
James Davis, of Yate, & Hannah Roach, of T., 26 Oct. 1787
Edward Alexander, of Badminton, & Mary Lister, of T., lic., 25 Nov. 1787
George Holly, of Melksham, Wilts, & Elizabeth Lidford, of T., 24 Mar. 1788
Richard Griffin, of Leighdelamere, Wilts., & Hannah Gale, of T., 20 Apr. 1788
Thomas Young & Susannah Milward, both of T., 12 Oct. 1788
Jeremiah Gale & Mary Warrat, both of T., 6 Sept. 1789
Joseph Reed & Ann Russell, both of A., 23 Aug. 1789
William Walker & Mary Fisher, both of L., 31 Jan. 1790
William Russell & Anne Higgs, both of A., 19 Apr. 1790
Thomas Bullock & Elizabeth Bethell, both of T., 17 May 1790
James Rolfe & Anne Cains, both of T., 30 May 1790
Richard Bridgeman & Elizabeth Gale, both of T., 6 Dec. 1790
Joseph Rolfe & Sarah Curtis, both of A., 8 Dec. 1790
Isaac Clifford, of Box, Wilts, & Hester Davis, of T., 9 Jan. 1791
Matthew Potter, of Riston [? Priston], Som., & Elizabeth Webber, of T., 5 July 1791
Richard Snell & Mary Rolph, both of A., 17 July 1791
William Bethell & Anne Williams, both of A., 30 Jan. 1792
Samuel Hook, of L., & Jane Gale, of T., 8 Apr. 1792
Thomas Little & Sarah Fussell, both of A., 26 Nov. 1792
Joseph Sansbury & Mary White, both of A., 17 Nov. 1793
William Kingson & Elizabeth Ruming, both of T., lic., 9 Dec. 1793
John Kingson & Ann Browning, both of T., 6 Apr. 1794
Jeremiah Russell & Elizabeth Reeve, both of A., 28 Sept. 1794
James Warner & Jane Russell, both of A., 24 May 1795
Charles Jacques & Elizabeth White, both of A., 20 Sept. 1795
Thomas Hayward, w., of Almonsbury, & Mary Pincott, w., of A., lic., 19 Apr. 1796
Stephen Eastmead & Ann Powis, both of A., 12 Feb. 1797
Elias Isaac, of Old Sodbury, & Mary Lovelock, of T., 4 June 1797
Thomas Davies & Jane Sutton, both of L.,, 27 Aug. 1797
John Stanmore & Mary White, both of A., 16 Oct. 1797
Isaac Bennet & Ann Hart, both of A., 9 Apr. 1798
Jonas Vines, of Old Sodbury, & Sarah Gale, of T., 3 Sept. 1798
Aaron Webb & Elizabeth Gale, both of T., 21 Oct. 1799
John Angel & Martha Sargant, both of T., 11 Nov. 1799
Thomas White & Edith Bullock, both of T., 11 Nov. 1799
Daniel Bailey & Elizabeth Kippins, both of T., 23 Dec. 1799
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
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Chipping Sodbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol, Pre 1836 – Gloucester
- Rural Deanery: Hawkesbury
- Poor Law Union: Chipping Sodbury
- Hundred: Grumbald’s Ash
- Province: Canterbury