Slimbridge Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Slimbridge is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Parish church: St John the Evangelist
Parish registers begin: 1635
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Slimbridge, a village and a parish in Dursley district, Gloucester. The village stands near the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, 1½ mile NW of Dursley-Junction r. station, and 4 NNW of Dursley; and has a post-office under Stonehouse. The parish contains also five hamlets; and comprises 3,660 acres of land, and 770 of water. Real property, £10,125; of which £512 are in the canal. Pop., 789. Houses, 172. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £600. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1846, and has a fine spire.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Parish Registers
Marriage Licences and Allegations
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Cox, William (Coxe), of Slimbridge, co. Gloucester, clerk, bachelor, about 40, and Katherine Chamberlaine, of Oddington, said county, spinster, about 24, consent of father, Thomas Chamberlaine, of same, esq., alleged by Edward Chamberlaine, of the city of Westminster, gent. — at Oddington, or Overswell, co. Gloucester. 26 Dec. 1663. V
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Marriages at Slimbridge 1571 to 1812
Note. – The registers of Slimbridge Church are, unfortunately, extremely imperfect. For more than a third of the period comprised in the following abstract there are no records extant, as will be seen by this list of the missing years.
1653-1659, 1670, 1680-1682, 1684, 1687-1707, 1723-1729, 1733-1738, 1742, 1799-1800.
This abstract has been made by the Rev. W. Symonds, M.A., Vicar of Frocester, and is now printed by permission of the Rev. C. R. Ridding, M.A., Rector of Slimbridge
Marriages at Slimbridge Additional Entries from 1571 to 1746 From the Bishop’s Transcripts at Gloucester.
Note. – The Marriage Entries from the Slimbridge Register, 1635 – 1812, were printed in Vol. I. pp. 133-149. It was then explained in a prefatory note that the Registers there are very imperfect, and that a large proportion of the years are missing.
The following entries have been copied from the Bishop’s Transcripts at Gloucester, and are supplementary to those printed in Vol. I. They include the years 1571-78, 1605, 1613, 1618, 1622-3, 1625, 1629, 1632, 1638 (one extra entry), 1680-9, 1690, 1692-3, 1696-1701, 1706-8, 1712, 1720, 1723-6, 1729.
Many of the transcripts during the eighteenth century include only Baptisms and Burials, and this is the case with the transcripts for 1799-1800, which would otherwise have filled the gap in Vol. I., p. 148.
A note at the end of these entries gives some variations of names and dates between the entries already printed and the transcripts. The entries here printed have been transcribed by Rev. W. Symonds, M.A., Vicar of Sherston, Wilts
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Gloucestershire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Dursley
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Dursley
- Poor Law Union: Dursley
- Hundred: Berkeley (Gloucestershire)
- Province: Canterbury