CIRENCESTER, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries

• Original source material relating to Cirencester, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.

Bibliography

• "Taming the Phoenix, Cirencester & The Quakers 1642-1686", a history of Quakers in Cirencester, by Brian Hawkins, published by William Sessions, York, 1998. ISBN 1 85072 205 6.

  Brian has also published another book "Quakers in Cirencester, The First Fifty Years" which is a source book rather than a history. No bound copies are available, but he has deposited copies with some libraries, and the Gloucestershire Archives. This book is ideal for family historians as it has a list of names of Friends between 1655 and 1705. [Information supplied by Rob Wilson]

Cemeteries

• Inscriptions on the Cirencester War Memorials, recorded by John I. Jones. Lists those in the Memorial Hospital and Parish Church - previously separate webpages, combined into one page 20 May 2007.

Census

• Transcription of the Census for Cirencester Union Workhouse, 1891, kindly contributed by Tony Woodward.

Directories

• Transcription of section of Pigot's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1830 for Circencester, by Ted Wildy.

• Cirencester Trades Directory, 1850, transcribed from Slater's Directory of Gloucestershire by Paul A. Best. Added 29 Mar 2006.

• A list of Commercial and Trades, 1889 entries, transcribed from Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire by Paul A. Best. Added 21 Nov 2005.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Cirencester from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.