Westcote, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Westcote is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish registers begin: 1630

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Westcote Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Westcote, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1605-1812

Westcote, 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.

Westcote, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1758-1938

Death and Burial Records

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

Westcote, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1988

Marriages at Westcote 1630-1812 – Transcriptions

Westcote Marriages 1800 to 1812

Robert Rose & Martha Williams, 3 Nov. 1800

James Claridge, p. Great Risington, & Sukie Shayler, 1 Dec. 1800

[Marginal note: – “The number of Marriages were sent in to ye Bishop and Parliament in March 1801]

George Bryan, Icomb, & Anne Hambidge, minor, with consent of parents, lic., 1 Apr. 1801

William Washbrook, p. Bledington, & Sarah Collett, 2 Oct. 1804

William Simmonds & Ann Williams, 2 Dec. 1804

William Hambidge, w., & Elizabeth Davis, 3 Feb. 1806

John Hambidge, p. Stow-on-the-Wold, & Elizabeth Hambidge, lic., 10 Feb. 1807

Richard Morris, p. Seasoncot, & Mary Hall, 9 Apr. 1807

John Merchant & Hannah Hollom, 23 Feb. 1808

William King, p. Icomb, & Elizabeth Tombs, 21 Nov. 1808

James Archer & Hannah Masters, 22 May 1809

John Young & Ann Hemming, 23 Oct. 1809

William Williams & Margaret Davis, 12 Nov. 1810

Thomas Saunders, p. Witney, & Hannah Miles, 11 Nov. 1812

John Tombs & Mary Keen, 16 Nov. 1812

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

Westcote Marriages 1758 to 1799

Volume II

William Mnason [sic] & Mary Barton, 11 Jan. 1758

Richard Davis, p. Chastleton, & Betty Johnson, lic., 12 Jan. 1758

Samuel Huggins, p. Warmington, & Elizabeth Rawleigh, lic., 16 Jan. 1758

John Hathaway & Sarah Avaries, 29 Jan. 1758

Robert Gardiner & Lucy Davis, p. Churchill, lic., 8 June 1758

Jonas Smith, p. Chadlington, & Elizabeth Gardiner, lic., 8 June 1758

William Tombs, p. Broad Risington, & Elizabeth Hathaway, 2 Oct. 1758

John Long & Ann Grove, p. Icomb, 10 May 1759

Alexander Smith, p. Outwardom., of Burford, & Anne Spurrit, 2 Aug. 1760

John Young & Sarah Long, 17 Nov. 1760

Christopher Archer, p. Lower Swell, & Mary Hambidge, 25 Sept. 1761

Richard Hambidge & Sarah Clark, p. Wick Risington, 26 Sept. 1763

William Stayt, of Bledington, & Anne Johnson, lic., 21 Jan. 1764

Richard Clark, p. Wick Risington, & Elizabeth Hambidge, lic., 11 Mar. 1764

John Jefferies, p. Bourton-on-the-Water, & Frances Green, 1 Dec. 1764

William Cull, p. Badbury, & Lucy Raleigh, lic., 17 Jan. 1765

Thomas Nott, p. Batsford, & Hannah Ross, lic., 17 Mar. 1765

Richard Yeats, p. Broadwell, & Anne Hanks, 7 Apr. 1765

John Humphreys, p. Hasselton, & Margaret Gardener, lic., 28 May 1765

Henry Lapper & Maria Gardener, 10 Oct. 1765

Thomas Collett & Anne Rose, lic., 1 Nov. 1766

John Rily, p. Bledington, w., & Mary Williams, lic., 15 Aug. 1767

Richard Hathaway, w., & Sarah Hathaway, w., 31 July 1769

Thomas Cambray & Sarah Hambidge, lic., 26 Nov. 1770

William Phipps, p. Bledington, & Mary Simmonds, 1 Apr. 1771

Thomas Hambidge, p. Icomb, & Mary Cambray, with consent of parents, lic., 13 May 1771

Thomas Day, p. Idbury, w., & Sarah Berry, 15 Aug. 1771

Thomas Wright & Hester Rose, 1 Nov. 1772

Henry Gardener, p. Upper Guiting, & Dinah Hathaway, lic., 28 Oct. 1772

William Clifford, p. Stow-on-the –Wold, & Margaret Hambidge, lic., 11 Dec. 1775

George Pain & Elizabeth Steward, 19 Aug. 1777

Edward Gibbins, p. Evenload, & Elizabeth Dodge, 10 Oct. 1777

Francis Cross & Mary Butler, 3 Aug. 1778

Henry Illes & Mary Spurrit, 12 Oct. 1778

Walter Davies & Alice Cross, 15 May 1780

James Payn, p. Longborough, & Mary Meadows, 1 May 1782

William Mason, w., & Mary Collett, 5 May 1782

John Mills & Mary Garner, 18 Jan. 1784

William Newbury, p. Lower Slaughter, & Mary Bethridge, 23 Feb. 1784

Thomas Johnson & Sarah Hands, p. Icomb, lic., 16 Sept. 1785

William Cull, w., & Frances Jefferies, w., 5 Dec. 1785

Peter Bartlett & Mary Collett, p. Idbury, 23 Oct. 1786

Thomas Collett & Ann Baylis, 3 Oct. 1788

Thomas Cambray, p. Icomb, & Margaret Johnson, 12 Feb. 1789

John Day, p. Idbury, & Mary Tombs, 8 Feb. 1790

Thomas Minchin & Ann Shayler, 12 Oct. 1792

John Moulder, p. Fifield, & Sarah Turner, lic., 5 May 1795

John Shaw, p. Little Risington, & Ann Lane, 6 July 1795

William Hill & Mary Lonshaw, 20 Mar. 1796

William Isles & Elizabeth Webb, 27 Nov. 1797

[Pencilled note :- “Thus far sent in at Stow.”]

William Hambidge & Elizabeth Weaver, lic., 17 Oct. 1798

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WESTCOTE, a parish in Stow-on-the-Wold district, Gloucester: 3 miles SSE of Stow-on-the-Wold r. station. Post town, Chipping-Norton. Acres, 1,503. Real property, £2,219. Pop., 245. Houses, 53. The manor belongs to the Rev. T. P. Pantin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £209. Patron, the Rev. T. P. Pantin. The church is chiefly Norman.

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

Westcote, a parish in the upper division of the hund. of Slaughter, union of Stow-on-the-Wold, county of Gloucester; 4 miles south-east by south of Stow-on-the-Wold. Living, a rectory in the archd. of Gloucester and dio. of Gloucester and Bath; rated at £9 7s. 3½d.; nett value £209. Patron, in 1841, the Rev. T. P. Pantin. Acres 1,200. Houses 35. A.P. £1,834. Pop., in 1801, 127; in 1831, 188. Poor rates, in 1838, £29 6s.

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

Maps

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Administration

  • County: Gloucestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Stow on the Wold
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
  • Rural Deanery: Stow
  • Poor Law Union: Stow on the Wold
  • Hundred: Slaughter
  • Province: Canterbury