Barrow Gurney, Somerset Family History Guide
Barrow Gurney is an Ancient Parish in the county of Somerset.
Alternative names: Barrow
Parish church: Holy Trinity
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1590
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BARROW-GURNEY, a parish in Bedminster district, Somerset; 1¼ mile SSE of Burton r. station, and 5 WSW of Bristol. Post Town, Long-Ashton, under Bristol. Acres, 2,026. Real property, £3,360. Pop., 321. House, 61. The property is divided among four. Barrow Court, near Barrow Hill, is a fine Tudor mansion, the seat of J. H. Blagrave, Esq., and occupies the site of a Benedictine nunnery founded by the Fitzhardinges. The living is a donative in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £66.* Patron, J. H. Blagrave, Esq.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BARROW-GURNEY (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Bedminster, hundred of Hartcliffe with Bedminster, E. division of Somerset, 5 miles (S. W.) from Bristol; containing 303 inhabitants. It comprises 2026 acres, of which 339 are arable, 1448 pasture, 97 wood, and 16 common. The living is a donative; net income, £71; patron, Montague Gore, Esq. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here about 1200, the revenue of which, at the Dissolution, was valued at £29. 6. 8.: the site is occupied by a fine old mansion in the Elizabethan style.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Somerset
- Civil Registration District: Bedminster
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Bath and Wells
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1847 – Redcliffe and Bedminster, Post-1846 – Chew
- Poor Law Union: Bedminster
- Hundred: Hartcliffe with Bedminster
- Province: Canterbury