Newland, Gloucestershire Genealogy
Guide to Newland, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Newland, Gloucestershire | |
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Type | Ancient Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | St Briavells |
County | Gloucestershire |
Poor Law Union | Monmouth |
Registration District | Monmouth; Ross |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1560; Separate registers exist for Clearwell beginning 1830 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1607 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Forest |
Diocese | Pre 1836 - Gloucester; Post 1835 - Gloucester and Bristol |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Hereford Post 1541- Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Gloucestershire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History
NEWLAND (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Monmouth, hundred of St. Briavell's, W. division of the county of Gloucester; containing, with the chapelries of Bream, Clearwell, and Coleford, and the tything of Lea-Bailey, 4 miles (S. E. by S.) from Monmouth. The Baptists and Wesleyans have places of worship. [1]
Resources
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.
Church records
Newland, Gloucestershire parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
AC = Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (Ancestry) - (£)[2][3][4][5] | |||||
DEAN = Forest of Dean Family History Trust - free[6] |
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AC | 1560-1812 | 1560-1812 | 1560-1753 | 1560-1753 | 1560-1812 | 1560-1812 |
AC | 1813-1913 | 1813-1913 | 1754-1938 | 1754-1938 | 1813-1988 | 1813-1988 |
DEAN | 1560-1972 | 1560-1923 | 1560-1989 |
Bream, Gloucestershire chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
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AC | 1814-1854 | 1814-1854 | 1830-1856 | 1830-1856 |
Clearwell, Gloucestershire chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
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AC | 1830-1913 | 1830-1913 | 1856-1938 | 1856-1938 | 1832-1962 | 1832-1962 |
DEAN | 1830-1958 | 1856-1943 | 1856-1962 |
Coleford, Gloucestershire chapelry registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
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AC | 1814-1863 | 1814-1863 | ||||
DEAN | 1784-1920 | 1872-1942 | 1784-1785 |
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites
References
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 394-398. Date accessed: 12 February 2013.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813,' Ancestry, accessed 17 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Baptisms, 1813-1913,' Ancestry, accessed 23 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Marriages, 1754-1938,' Ancestry, accessed 21 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Gloucestershire, England, Burials, 1813-1988,' Ancestry, accessed 28 June 2016.
- ↑ 'Transcript Summary,' Forest of Dean Family History Trust, accessed 22 July 2016. The Forest of Dean Family History Trust's 'policy is not to show records within the following cut off years - Baptisms 90 years, Marriages 70 years, Burials 30 years.'