Norton, Gloucestershire Genealogy

Guide to Norton, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
NORTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's-Barton, union and E. division of the county of Gloucester,4 miles (N. E. by N.) from the city of Gloucester.

Church Records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

An extraction of the Bishop's Transcripts of this parish are available at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wrag44/norton/norton.htm

Non-conformist Records

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images
 * 1642-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Probate Records
Records of will, adminstrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Gloucestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court jurisdiction by parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visiual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain