Maisemore, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Maisemore is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Gloucestershire, created in 1733 from a chapelry in Gloucester St Mary de Lode Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin: 1538
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Adjacent Parishes
- Sandhurst
- Ashleworth
- Lassington
- Gloucester Pool Meadow
- Gloucester St Nicholas
- Gloucester St Mary de Lode
- Hartpury
- Highnam
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MAISEMORE, a village and a parish in the district and county of Gloucester. The village stands near the river Severn, 2 miles NNW of Gloucester r. station; and has post office under Gloucester.
The parish comprises 1,930 acres. Real property, £5,033. Pop., 51. Houses, 107. Maisemole Lodge is the seat of J. F. Sevier, esq., and stands on high Ground, commanding a fine view over the Severn. Springhill is the residence of the Misses Crawley. A bridge crosses an affluent of the Severn; and was rebuilt after the siege of Gloucester. A Roman settlement was at Overton.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £120. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester. The church has Norman features; and the chancel was rebuilt in 1844, and the rest restored and enlarged in 1869.
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 Maisemore 1538-1813
Note. – The Maisemore Parish Registers, 1538-1813, are contained in five parchment books of varying size, beginning with an Elizabethan Transcript of Burials 1538-1600, and Marriages 1557-1590. The Transcript of Burials is perfect save for one leaf torn out and lost, containing the years 1585-88. The transcript of Marriages is obviously mutilated at the end, having lost from seven to ten years. This Volume I was unbound until a few years ago, when it was, along with Volume III, strongly and well bound by order of the Vicar and Churchwardens.
The early Burials and Marriages, together with the Baptisms 1600-1663, were transcribed and published in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, part xl, for October 1888, and following parts, and those Marriages are here reprinted. It is there stated that no more Marriages are recorded till 1653; this date should have bee 1655. The Register throughout are in a sound and satisfactory condition, with very few illegible entries.
The living of Maisemore was a Perpetual Curacy, now called a Vicarage. Bigland, the county historian, gives a list of four incumbents of the parish, as follows :- 1735, William Huddlestone, clerk; 1745, James Pitt; 1784, Martin Stafford Smith; 1793, Richard Raikes, A.M. There is no mention of Huddlestone anywhere in the Register. It seems clear that John Wall was Curate from 1715 till his death in 1746, and it is quite certain that he was succeeded by another John Wall till 1761. James Pitt was not Curate till 1769, and Martin Stafford Smith, who succeeded him in 1778, was not the immediate predecessor of Richard Raikes.
These extracts have been made by Mr. Conway Dighton, of Cheltenham, by permission of the Rev. C. E. Dighton, Vicar of Maisemore.
Marriages at Maisemore 1538-1813 – UK Genealogy Archives
Transcriptions
Maisemore Marriages 1798 to 1813
Volume V.
“This Book Brought By Thos. Vallender, Churchwarden of the Parish of Maisemore, 1798, and Cost Fourteen Shillings.”
Richard Biddle White, of Chaceley, co. Worc., & Sarah Roan, lic., 26 July 1798
William Biscoe, b., & Elizabeth Merryman, w., 27 Nov. 1798
Thomas Williams, w., & Sarah Meyers, s., lic., 14 May 1799
Thomas Pool & Esther Biscoe, 23 May 1799
William Hill & Hannah Pickthorn, 16 Oct. 1799
Thomas Vallender, of this p., & Elizabeth Nicholls, of Churcham, co. Glouc., lic., 2 Jan. 1800
John Powell, b., & Mary Gough, w., lic., 15 Feb. 1800
William Clarke & Ann Etheridge, 30 Oct. 1800
John Humpidge, p. Tibberton, co. Glouc., & Sarah White, lic., 16 Feb. 1801
Thomas White, p. Corse, & Ann Roan, lic., 7 July 1801
Thomas Williams, & Ann Fletcher, lic., 14 Aug. 1801
Benjamin Winchcomb, p. Painswick, & Hannah Preen, 26 Nov. 1801
Thomas Gurney & Mary Bachler, 5 Jan. 1802
William Hooper, b., & Susannah Jordan, w., lic., 8 July 1802
Joseph Fletcher, b., & Sarah Turner, w., 13 July 1802
Joseph Godwin & Hester Ravenill, 28 Oct. 1802
John Holder & Sarah Cook, 25 Nov. 1802
Paul Sparrow & Mary Etheridge, 1 May 1804
Thomas Hamblin & Ann Proverb, 25 Sept. 1804
Robert Fisher, p. Hempsted, & Joyse Davis, 17 May 1805
Richard Cuff, p. Hasfield, w., & Sarah Pool, s., 19 Aug. 1805
Robert Turk & Susannah Turk, 14 Oct. 1805
Richard Moody, p. Bully, & Mary Roan, lic., 12 June 1806
Samuel Cullis & Mary Smith, 6 Apr. 1807
Thomas Phelps & Elizabeth Vallender, lic., 16 Feb. 1809
George Workman & Sarah Cooper, 10 July 1809
John Lewis, p. Ashelworth, & Jane Day, 28 Sept. 1809
Benjamin Madeling, p. Broseley, co. Salop, w., & Elizabeth Annis, s., lic., [bridegroom signs “Madlin”], 27 Jan. 1810
Michael Wadley & Ann Gough, lic., 1 May 1810
Isaac Walkley & Mary Preen, 16 Oct. 1810
Thomas Baish, p. Hartpury, & Hannah Meadows, lic., 22 Jan. 1811
William Vallender & Esther Stephens, lic., 17 Sept. 1811
John Collins, p. Brockworth, & Hannah Stone, lic., 8 Dec. 1811
John Roberts & Catherine Wall, 15 Dec. 1811
Miles Allen, p. Corse, & Comfort Wadley, 19 Dec. 1811
John Bate & Mary Bastin, 3 Feb. 1812
Thomas Wadley & Mary Middleton, lic., 9 May 1812
John Colchester, w., & Mary Jeffs, w., 26 Feb. 1813
[Note: John Colchester, of an old Ashelworth family dating back to 1686. See Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, vol. v, part v, March 1892. ]
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.
Maisemore Marriages 1775 to 1798
Benjamin Vallender & Jane Hughes (with consent of parents), 6 June 1775
William Jones & Sarah Gough, lic., 13 July 1775
James Barnes, p. Elmstone Hardwick, co. Glocester, & Hannah Middleton, lic., 15 Aug. 1776
John Godwin, of this p., & Mary Gough, p. Churchdown, lic., 28 Dec. 1776
John Etheridge & Mary Davis, 6 Jan. 1777
William Lane, p. Harpury, & Mary Woodcocke, lic., 9 Sept. 1777
John Hall & Hannah Biscoe, 27 Nov. 1777
James Cullis & Ann Viner, both resident in this p. (with consent of parents), 15 Dec. 1777
Thomas Vallender & Elizabeth Smith, lic., 6 May 1778
James Roane & Elizabeth Lane, 24 July 1778
John Cowper & Sarah Croom, 29 Nov. 1778
John Dyer & Eminia Newman, 5 Dec. 1778
Nathaniel Symes & Sarah Smith, both resident in this p., lic., 7 Apr. 1779
John Gardiner & Mary Stiles, both resident in this p., 11 Oct. 1779
Job Vaughan, p. Staunton, co. Worc., & Sarah Arkell, lic., 24 Oct. 1781
Richard Grimmitt & Jane Snow, both resident in this p., 21 Nov. 1781
Thomas Turner & Sarah Wood, 15 Jan. 1782
John Drinkwater, p. Churcham, & Mary Brazington, 6 May 1782
William Harris & Anne Hunt, both resident in this p., 16 Sept. 1782
Anthony Merriman & Mary Gough, lic., 12 Oct. 1782
Charles Vaughan & Sarah Gough, 22 Oct. 1782
George Perks & Mary Guy, both resident in this p., 15 Dec. 1782
John Meek & Elizabeth Silly, lic., 16 Jan. 1783
James Briscoe & Elizabeth Biggs, 25 Feb. 1783
Jonathan Gough & Mary Haynes, lic., 13 Apr. 1783
William Greenaway & Mary Low, 30 Jan. 1784 [Misplaced in Register]
Anthony Merriman, w., & Elinor Turk, s., 12 July 1784
John Stratford Collins, p. Walford, co. Heref., & Mary Davis, lic., 3 Jan. 1785
William Roberts & Jane Wingate, lic., 11 Jan. 1785
Richard Kendal & Mary Stephens, 18 June 1785
Joseph Cooper & Mary Jacksons, 7 Nov. 1785
James Dobbins & Ann Turk, 27 Dec. 1785
John Biggs & Sarah Turck, 3 Jan. 1786
William Biggs, this p., & Elizabeth Kibble, p. Churchdown, lic., 24 Feb. 1786
George Collins & Ann Haynes, lic., 7 May 1786
William Culliss & Hester Stephens, 23 Apr. 1787
Thomas Dyer, p. Eldersfield, Worc., b. [?], & Margaret Bateman, 7 July 1788 [Whether by banns or lic. not specified. Very indistinct.]
Thomas Maverley & Ann Buckley, 23 Sept. 1788
John Turk & Ann Wadley, lic., 25 Oct. 1788
Charles Hooper, b., & Hester Sanford, w., 21 June 1789
John Jordan & Hester Robbins, 10 May 1790
Thomas Humpidge, p. Hartpury, & Mary White, lic., 17 May 1790
Joseph Gough, p. Badgworth, & Eliz. Etheridge, 29 June 1790
“N.B. – The Marriage of Daniel Wingate & Mary Vallender is inserted by mistake in the 3rd page of this Register.” [viz., in a space which chanced to be vacant under the year 1757. – E.D.]
Daniel Wingate & Mary Vallender, lic., 25 Dec. 1790
Joseph Jordan & Susannah Sterry, 3 Dec. 1791
William Middleton, b., & Elizabeth White, s., lic., 23 Aug. 1792
William Harris, of this p., w., & Hannah Josham, p. Norton, s., 13 Oct. 1792
John Croose, b., & Sarah Tayler, s., “By me *Jas Pitt, Off. Min.”, 24 Oct. 1792
Samuel Jackson, b., & Elizabeth Knowls, s., lic., 9 Feb. 1793
Anthony Merryman, w., & Elizabeth Biscoe, s., [sign “Meriman” and “Bisko”], 19 Aug. 1793
Benjamin Etheridge & Hannah Gough, 29 May 1794
John Hooper & Sarah Dobbins, 7 Nov. 1794
Phillip Perry, p. Standish, & Sarah Hobbs, 14 Apr. 1795
John Haviland, w., & Elizabeth Gears, s., lic., [scarcely legible], 26 Dec. 1795
Thomas Price & Sarah Gough, 4 Jan. 1796
Robert Smith,+ of Painswick, b., & Elizabeth Pitt, of this p., s., lic., Witnesses: Harriet Pitt, W. Pitt, Sarah Pitt #, 31 Aug. 1796
Edward Young, of Cam [Canon ?] Froome, co. Heref., & Jemima Ballenger, 5 Dec. 1796
William Bates, of Norfield [sic], Worc., & Ruth Bick, p. Hartpury, 31 July 1797
John Allen, of Tirley, co. Glouc., & Mary Wadley, lic., 17 Aug. 1797
William Morfield, of Chaceley, co. Worc., & Hannah Gooding, 1 Feb. 1798
John Shill, of Har[vynton ?] [illegible], & Sarah Stock, of Minsterworth, 12 Mar. 1798
Thomas Tooby, p. Hartpury, & Ann Vallender, lic., 5 Apr. 1798
* Second son of Rev. Jas. Pitt; baptized at Taynton, Oxon, 30 Aug. 1759; Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon, Rector of Brimpsfield and Cranham; married his cousin Mary, only child of John Pitt, M.P. for Gloucester; died 6 March 1806, buried in Gloucester Cathedral.
+ Mr. Robert Smith lived in 1799 at the hamlet of Paradise, and was probably s. of Mr. Thos. Smith (1741), bailiff to Sir Wm. Jerningham at the Lodge.
# Wm. Pitt, esq., eldest son of Rev. Jas. Pitt; baptised at Taynton, Oxon, 7 Jan. 1752; married Sarah Smith. Their son James died 1798, aged 17. Their daughter Harriet married Wm. Goodrich, esq., of Energlyn, Glamorgan, and afterwards of Maisemore, who died in 1845.
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.
Poll Books
Maisemore Poll Book 1834 – Google Books
Newspapers
The following newspapers cover the area.
Gloucestershire Newspapers
Cheltenham Chronicle (The British Newspaper Archive)
Cheltenham Examiner (The British Newspaper Archive)
Cheltenham Journal and Gloucestershire Fashionable Weekly Gazette (The British Newspaper Archive)
Cheltenham Looker-On (The British Newspaper Archive)
Cheltenham Mercury (The British Newspaper Archive)
Cirencester Times and Cotswold Advertiser (The British Newspaper Archive)
Gloucester Citizen (The British Newspaper Archive)
Gloucester Journal (The British Newspaper Archive)
Gloucestershire Chronicle (The British Newspaper Archive)
Gloucestershire Echo (The British Newspaper Archive)
Stroud Journal (The British Newspaper Archive)
Stroud News and Gloucestershire Advertiser (The British Newspaper Archive)
Tewkesbury Register, and Agricultural Gazette., The (The British Newspaper Archive)
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard (The British Newspaper Archive)
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Gloucester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Gloucester
- Poor Law Union: Gloucester
- Hundred: Dudstone and King’s Barton
- Province: Canterbury