Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Genealogy

England   Gloucestershire

Parish History
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Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Latter Day Saints
"Mormon missionaries entered Gloucestershire in 1840 and gained converts in villages near Gloucester. Some of them emigrated by way of the city to America in 1841.  The same year a Chartist, the first Mormon missionary to Gloucester, preached in a room of Worcester Street and took part in a public debate.  The Latter Day Saints, who from 1851 worshipped in a room in a passage off Westgate Street formerly occupied by the mechanics' institution, encountered hostility in Gloucester.  In 1855 a lecture on polygamy was broken up and the magistrates dismissed the case against the culprits on the ground that the assembly had not been a religious service.  In 1856 the Latter Day Saints registered a building in Worcester Street and although services had ceased there by 1866 local people attended a small Mormon conference in the city in 1876.  In 1912 a group of Latter Day Saints (Reorganized) registered a mission hall in Stroud Road. In 1942 the same group registered a hall behind Wellington Street and by 1965 it had built a church in Newton Avenue at Coney Hill. In 1963 Mormons registered a house on the main road in Barnwood. In 1970 they moved to a new church next to the house, which they demolished for a car park." C. R. Elrington, The Victoria History Of The Counties of England (The University of London Institute of Historical Research) LDS Family History Library, British "Q", 942, H2vg, v. 4.

The Cheltenham Ward 2007
Thirlestain Road, Cheltenham

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The Cheltenham Ward is located on Thirlestain Road/A40. Cheltenham College Road becomes Thirlestain Road. The Cheltenham Ward is very close to Cheltenham College.

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Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, 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 Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
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