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BERKELEY, Gloucestershire
- Scribes Alcove - a
site to enable searches of baptism, marriage and burial indexes from six
Gloucestershire parishes: Berkeley, Thornbury, Oldbury-upon-Severn,
Hill, Stone & Rockhampton.
The period covered for St Mary's Church is 1700-1900CMB (except 1790-1801M).
- As well as providing information about St Mary's Church, the
Saint Mary's Minster, Berkeley web pages feature information
about Berkeley itself, the Jenner Museum, and more.
- "Ancient parish included Alkington, Breadstone, Hamfallow,
Hinton, Ham and Stone, which all remain in (the) modern ecclesiastical
parish except Stone. Alkington, Hamfallow, Hinton and Ham &
Stone are all civil parishes since 1894"
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the
County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)
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Berkeley Hundred Court Rolls 1543, taken from Gloucestershire Notes
& Queries, "An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted To The
History And Antiquities Of Gloucestershire", Vol V 1891-1893;
transcribed by Brenda Pickard.
- There is a fascinating account of
The Murder of King Edward II by Sir Thomas Gourney and others at
Berkeley Castle
in September 1327, compiled by John E. Trivett as part of his TRIVETT
Family History pages.
Edward II had married Isabella of France; her dissatisfaction with the marriage,
and her alleged liaison with William Wallace was portrayed rather vividly in the
film Braveheart, with Wallace played by Mel Gibson. Following
Edward's murder, his burial became an issue, as the abbots of the nearest abbeys
refused to perform the ceremony, for fear of offending Queen Isabella.
Eventually, however Abbot John Thokey of Gloucester agreed to it, and Edward was
buried in the abbey just before Christmas 1327. However, as is customary, public
opinion is fickle; whilst in life he was an unpopular king, in death he became a
martyr, and as a result the Abbey at Gloucester became a site for major pilgrimage.
The pilgrims brought money, and as a result, a major rebuilding programme
was undertaken for what was to become Gloucester Cathedral. Much of the
building we see today dates from the years following Edward's death.
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