Yate Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Yate is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin: 1660

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

POOLE COURT YATE
Yate Rectory

Yate Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers for Yate.

Yate, Bristol Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1660-1812

Yate, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1922

Yate, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1609-1812

Yate, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1868

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Yate, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1868

Death and Burial Records

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

Yate, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1868

Historical Directories

Yate Bennetts Business Directory 1899

Brown T, boot & shoe warehouse, Sunnyside.  Boots made to order. Repairs of kinds neatly executed

Codrington Arms, Acton Lane – J Washbourne
Collins H, grocer, Acton Lane
Common Inn, Dyer Lane – W Dyer
Cross Keys, Acton Lane

Daniel J, butcher, Station rd
Davis J, grocer, Station rd
Dixon J, grocer, Goose Green

Fletcher J, engineer

Gowen H, carpenter, Westerleigh rd

Heaven W, baker, Station rd
Higg D, bootmaker, Goose Green
Hirdson W, carpenter, Goose Green
Hudson J, builder

Iles F, builder, Station rd

Pearce G, blacksmith, Station rd
Ponting C, tailor
Post Office – W Aldon
Powell W J, builder, carpenter, joiner, undertaker, &c., Station rd. Estimates given for all kinds of work

Railway Hotel, Station rd – S Cox

Shipp W, carpenter, Westerleigh rd
Silk A, carpenter, Yate Rocks
Stockden G, coal mcht, Station rd
Swan Inn, Station rd – W Smith

Taylor S, mason

Washbourne R, beer retailer, Acton Lane
White Lion Hotel, Station rd – J Aureden

Yate Star Military Band – G Davis

Source: Bennetts Business Directory (Gloucestershire Section) 1899; Bennett & Co. Printers and Publishers, Birmingham.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer 1870

YATE, a parish, with a village, in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester; on the Gloucester and Bristol railway, 1 mile W by N of Chipping-Sodbury. It has a post-office under Chipping-Sodbury, a r. station, and Chipping-Sodbury workhouse. Acres, 4,042. Real property, £9,905; of which £1,395 are in mines, and £10 in quarries. Pop. in 1861, 1,138; of whom 119 were in the workhouse. Houses, 210. The property is much subdivided. Yate House, Yate Lawn, and Firgrove House are chief residences.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £851. Patron, the Rev. G. L. Harvey. The church is later English, and was interiorly restored in 1850. There are a Baptist chapel, national and British schools, and charities £40.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Yate (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Chipping-Sodbury, Upper division of the hundred of Henbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 1 mile (W.) from Chipping Sodbury; containing 1057 inhabitants. The parish comprises 4042 acres, of which 656 are common or waste, an act for inclosing which was passed in 1842 : the substratum abounds in coal, of which there are some mines in operation. The village has been made a polling-place for the W. division of the county.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £30. 18. 11½., and in the gift of W. S. Goodenough, Esq. : the tithes have been commuted for £685, and the glebe comprises 154 acres.

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.

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

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