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STROUD, Gloucestershire

Archives and Libraries Cemeteries Census Church History Description and Travel

Directories Gazetteers History Names, Personal Occupations

Archives and Libraries

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

Cemeteries

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in Old & New Cemetery, and Ruscombe Congregational Chapel, Stroud, collected and transcribed by Alf Beard. Added 26 Sep 2005. Updated 21 May 2009.

• Monumental Inscriptions for Stroud, including Chapel Street Chapel, St Lawrence Old Church, and Stroud Cemetery, transcribed by Stuart Flight.

Census

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

Church History

• Various Photographs of Congregational Church are available in our Ruscombe Photo Gallery, provided by Alf Beard. Added 21 May 2009.

Description and Travel

• Virtual Stroud - literally, a tour of Stroud in photographs. Click on the arrows on the menu bar on the left to "move" around the town.

• Stroud, Description and History - includes information on Stroud Bank, Population, St. Laurence's Church, nonconformist chapels and meeting houses, memorial inscriptions &c. collected by Stuart Flight.

Directories

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

Gazetteers

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

History

• Ruscombe, and a History of Bread Street. Interesting account of its origins, which includes mention of several individuals who lived there. Added 21 May 2009.

Names, Personal

• Names from "Notes and Recollections of Stroud", 1779-1873 (745 entries) compiled by Ted Wildy from the book by Paul Hawkins Fisher. This book was first published in 1871 and re-printed in 1986 by Alan Sutton Publishing ISBN 0 862993 16 4 (paperback)

Occupations

• Information on the Woollen Cloth industry in the Dursley area (including Bourne Mill, Thrupp) is available via (GSIA) Links to Industrial Archaeology.

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