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GLOUCESTER, Gloucestershire

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"The chief city, containing 5 parish churches, besides its ancient and magnificent cathedral. It is well built, and its four principal streets are greatly admired for the regularity of their junction in the centre of the town; besides which there are several smaller ones, all well paved. Here is a good stone bridge over the Severn, the lowest down that river, with a quay, wharf, and custom-house. The manufacture of pins, &c., is not so flourishing. It is seated on the east side of the Severn, where, by its two streams, it forms the Isle of Alney. It is 106 miles from London. Market, Wednesday. Fairs on April 5, July 5, September 28, and November 28, the latter chiefly for fat hogs. Population, 14,152." (From Barclay's Complete and Universal English Dictionary, 1842.)

Archives and Libraries

See the List of Parish Churches within Gloucester City for a Guide to Research Sources for individual parishes.

Bibliography

• Verey, David & Welander, David - Gloucester Cathedral. Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1979. Paperback 160p.
  • ISBN 0 904387 34 8

Cemeteries

• Gloucester Crematorium - Genealogy Services (on www.glos-city.gov.uk website) Added 5 May 2007.

• Photograph of Coneyhill Cemetery, Gloucester, from Alf Beard. Added 15 Oct 2005.

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in Coneyhill Cemetery (Crematorium), Gloucester, collected and transcribed by Alf Beard. Added 23 Jul 2005.

• Inscriptions on Gloucester City War Memorial, recorded by Stuart Flight.

• Inscriptions on S.J. Moreland & Sons Ltd. War Memorial, recorded by Stuart Flight. S.J. Moreland were a local company who started life as timber importers but became famous for the production of matches.

• Stuart has also recorded the Inscriptions on Central Technical School, Gloucester, War Memorial, which commemorates former pupils of the school who died during the Second World War.

Census

• Gloucestershire - Census Returns 1841-1901 - all you ever wanted to know about the Census.

• Selected entries (Gloucester Prison and Bridewell Police Station) from Gloucester, 1841 Census transcribed by Rosemary Lockie.

Church History

• Various photographs of most of Gloucester's Churches are available in a Photo Gallery of Gloucester, provided by Phil Draper. Added 21 Mar 2006.

• Gloucester City, Places of Worship. Information on many of the Churches, Chapels, Meeting Houses &c. in the City of Gloucester, provided by Stuart Flight.

• The Churches of Gloucester City Centre provides information on St. Mary de Crypt with St. John's, Northgate; Christ Church; St. Mary de Lode and St.Nicholas; St. Mark's Kingsholm.

Description and Travel

• Virtual Gloucester - items on the City Center, Gloucester Spa, Docks, History, video and more.

Directories

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

Gazetteers

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

History

• Gloucester Histories - various snippets on "Living Gloucester" website. Added 21 May 2007.

Maps

• John Speed's Map of "Glocester" in 1611.

Newspapers

• Selected Notices from "The Glocester Journal", Monday, April 28, 1800 transcribed by Cathie Bennett. Includes a notice of execution at Bristol of Richard HAYNES, alias 'Dick Boy'... (sorry, couldn't resist mentioning that one!)

Occupations

• Gloucester Docks and the Sharpness Canal - Past, Present and Future. A really great site which provides a wealth of material on the docks; also includes a Family History section, listing records that researchers with ancestral connections in 'dockland' and with shipping may find useful.

Religion and Religious Life

• Gloucester Cathedral's official site: The Cathedral Church of St Peter and The Holy and Indivisible Trinity
  (includes Church History and some stunning photographs).

• See also The Cathedrals of England - National Database.

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