Westerleigh, Gloucestershire Family History Guide

Westerleigh is a chapelry of Pucklechurch Ancient Parish in Gloucestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Coalpit Heath, Henfield, Nibley, Mayshill, and Kendalshire.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1693

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

• Mangotsfield
• Winterbourne
• Wapley with Codrington
• Coalpit Heath
• Frampton Cotterell
• Dyrham
• Pucklechurch
• Yate

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WESTERLEIGH, a parish, with W. village, Nibley hamlet, and part of Coalpit-Heath chapelry, in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester; 2 miles S of Yate r. station, and 2¾ SW of Chipping-Sodbury. Post town, Chipping-Sodbury. Acres, 4,009. Real property, £15,542; of which £7,442 are in mines. Pop., 1,582. Houses, 331.

The manor belongs to Sir J. H. G. Smyth and Mrs. Colston. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Pucklechurch. The church is later English, and was injured by fire in 1863. There are an Independent chapel, an endowed school with £20 a year, and charities £76. A cattle fair is held on 19 Sept.

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 1848

Westerleigh, a parish in the hund. of Puckle-church, union of Chipping-Sodbury, county of Gloucester; 3 miles south-west by west of Chipping-Sodbury.

Living, a curacy, united to the vicarage of Puckle-church, in the archd. and dio. of Gloucester; not in charge. Patronage with the vicarage of Puckle-church. The church is a handsome building, in the later style of English architecture; an additional church is about to be built in this parish; also an infant school-house.

Here are two schools, at each of which ten boys, and the same number of girls, receive education, on an endowment of £20 per annum by Sir John Smyth. Acres 3,840. Houses 341. A.P. £10,889. Pop, in 1801, 1,582; in 1831, 1,709. Poor rates, in 1838, £702 2s

There is a railway, 9 miles in length, between the floating-dock in Bristol, and Coalpit heath in this parish. It is probable that this railway will be extended (as originally contemplated), so as to connect Bristol with Birmingham.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1848.

Bankrupts

Discharge of Prisoners

The people listed below were discharged as a prisoners in the debtors prison.

Thomas Hathway sued as Thomas Hathaway formerly of Westerleigh Gloucestershire Saddler and Harness maker and late of Frampton Cotterell Gloucestershire Saddler and Harness maker – 1 May 1851 – The London Gazette

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

Details	Place of Marriage
Joseph Osborne, p. Westerleigh, & Ann Chandler, lic., 20 Aug. 1774	Alderley

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Gloucestershire, Westerleigh – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Westerleigh, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Gloucestershire, Westerleigh – Church records ( 12 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Westerleigh, 1599-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Westerleigh (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Coalpit-Heath, St. Saviour’s Church, parish registers, 1845-1975
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Coalpit-Heath (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Downend, Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Church records, 1824-1894
Author: Downend Circuit (Gloucestershire : Wesleyan Methodist); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Kingswood, Primitive Methodist Circuit, Church records, 1867-1907
Author: Primitive Methodist Church. Kingswood Circuit (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Thornbury, Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Church records, 1841-1907
Author: Methodist Church. Thornbury Circuit (Thornbury, Gloucestershire); Downend Circuit (Gloucestershire : Wesleyan Methodist); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Westerleigh, St James’ Church, Bishop’s transcripts, 1599-1812
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Westerleigh (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Westerleigh, St. James the Great’s Church, parish registers, 1693-1931
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Westerleigh (Gloucestershire); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

Index and transcripts of the Bristol Diocese burial registers : volume 3 1754-1812
Author: Bristol & Avon Family History Society

Parish chest records, 1639-1967
Author: Westerleigh (Gloucester)

Parish chest records, 1845-1921
Author: Coalpit-Heath (Gloucester)

Parish registers for Coalpit-Heath, 1845-1975
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Coalpit-Heath (Gloucestershire)

Parish registers for Westerleigh, 1693-1973
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Westerleigh (Gloucestershire)

England, Gloucestershire, Westerleigh – Occupations ( 1 )
Parish chest records, 1639-1967
Author: Westerleigh (Gloucester)

England, Gloucestershire, Westerleigh – Taxation ( 1 )
Parish chest records, 1639-1967
Author: Westerleigh (Gloucester)

Administration

• County: Gloucestershire
• Civil Registration District: Chipping Sodbury
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
• Rural Deanery: Hawkesbury
• Poor Law Union: Chipping Sodbury
• Hundred: Pucklechurch
• Province: Canterbury