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Gloucestershire, England, UK Introduction
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Gloucestershire (pronounced GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part
of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of
the River
Severn, and the entire Forest
of Dean. The county town is Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham,
Stroud, Cirencester,
and Tewkesbury. The English conquest of the Severn valley began in 577 with the victory of Ceawlin at Deorham, followed by the capture of Cirencester, Gloucester and Bath. The Hwiccas who occupied the district were a West Saxon tribe, but their territory had become a dependency of Mercia in the 7th century, and was not brought under West Saxon dominion until the 9th century. No important settlements |
were made by the Danes in the district. Gloucestershire probably originated as a shire in the 10th century, and is mentioned by name in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1016. Towards the close of the 11th century the boundaries were readjusted to include Winchcomb, hitherto a county by itself, and at the same time the forest district between the Wye and the Severn was added to Gloucestershire. The divisions of the county for a long time remained very unsettled, and the thirty-nine hundreds mentioned in the Domesday Survey and the thirty-one hundreds of the Hundred Rolls of 1274 differ very widely in name and extent both from each other and from the twenty-eight hundreds of the present day. |
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Gloucestershire, England, U.K.Surnames
The
following are surnames of persons, found within our data bases, who
were either born, married or died in this location. |
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Carter |
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To find out more about each
family listed here click on this link FAMILY
SURNAMES - (General Index) or the
appropriate LINK(s above. |
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Gloucestershire, England, U.K.
Ancestral GenSite(s) |
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SITE NAME: |
Cirencester (Town and Parish) |
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LOCATION: |
Gloucestershire, England, UK |
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COORDINATES: |
51°43′6.6″N 1°58′5.52″W |
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DIRECTIONS: |
Driving from London to Cirencester Total Est. Time:
1 hour, 40 minutes Total Est. Distance: 94.84 miles, (see map at
gallery). |
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ANCESTOR(s): |
Giles
Carter, Sr. born here in 1634. |
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BACKGROUND /
HISTORY: |
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In The 1868 National Gazette Cirencester is
described as a parish, market town, and parliamentary borough, in the hundred
of Crowthorne and Minty, in the county of Gloucester, 95 miles distant from
London by the railway, 16 from Stroud, and 23 from Gloucester. Cirencester, known as the "Capital Of The Cotswolds", is an
historic Roman town in the heart of the |
Cotswolds
with attractions from a Roman Ampitheatre to the Gloucestershire The Greek writer Ptolemy
mentions Korinion in his Geography, written about AD 150, and it is agreed
that the Romans based the name Corinium on a Celtic word Corn or Corin. This
may derive from the name of the British tribe, the Cornovii, and in any case
it is connected with the name of the River Churn. |
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SITE NAME: |
Cirencester Parish Church of St. John Baptist |
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LOCATION: |
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK |
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COORDINATES: |
51°43′6.6″N 1°58′5.52″W |
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DIRECTIONS: |
Market Place, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire GL7 2PB - England, UK
Phone: +44
(0)1285 659317. |
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ANCESTOR(s): |
Giles Carter, Sr.
christened here in 1635 |
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BACKGROUND / HISTORY: |
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Cirencester Parish Church of
St. John Baptist is the largest parish
church in Gloucestershire. There
is evidence of an early 13th-century rebuilding of the chancel and the nave,
but the most substantial part of the church dates from the 15th |
and 16th
centuries. The profile of the church
dominates the market place due to the tremendous tower and the three storey
porch, which was built circa 1500. It
is one of the Cotswolds great ‘wool’ churches because it was built from the
prosperity based on the wool trade. |
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Gloucestershire, England, U.K. List of Localities The list below will assist
in your research regarding the matching of your ancestors birth, marriage,
death dates and in what locality of this county these events may have
occurred. Source: Wikipedia |
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This is a list of cities, towns and villages in
the county of Gloucestershire, England. Abbeymead, Ablington, Adlestrop, Alderley, Alderton, Aldsworth, Alkerton,
Alkington, Alstone, Alvington, Amberley, Ampney
St Mary, Ampney Crucis, Ampney
St Peter, Andoversford, Apperley, Arlingham, Arlington, Ashchurch, Ashleworth,
Ashley, Aston
Subedge, Aston Cross, Aston
Magna, Avening,
Awre, Aylburton, Barton,
Beachley, Berkeley, Berkeley Vale, Beverston, Bisley, Blakeney, Blockley, Boddington, Bourton on the Water, Box, Brimscombe, Brockhampton, Brockworth, Bromsberrow
(SO743343),
Bromsberrow Heath (SO733323),
Brookthorpe,
Buckland, Bishops
Cleeve, Bourton
on the Hill, Bream, Cam, Cambridge, Chaceley,
Cashes
Green, Chalford,
Chaxhill, Cheltenham,
Chipping Campden, Churchdown, Cinderford,
Cirencester,
Clearwell, Coaley
Peak, Coldharbour,
Coleford, Coln
Rogers, Coln St. Aldwyns, Coln
St. Dennis, Coombe Hill, Corse, Cutsdean, Didbrook, Dixton,
Down
Ampney, Draycott, Driffield,
Dursley, Eastington (near Northleach), Eastington (near Stonehouse), Eastcombe, Edgeworth,
Elmstone-Hardwicke, Ellwood,
Elmbridge, English Bicknor, Elmore Back, Evenlode, Epney, Fairford, Ford, Forthampton,
Frampton Mansell, Frampton-on-Severn, Frocester Hill,
Fyfield,
Gloucester,
Greet, Gretton, Gotherington, Guiting Power, Ham, Hampnet,
Hardwicke ,Haresfield,
Hartpury,
Hasfield,
Huntley, Hidcote
Boyce, Hawling, Hazelton,
Hatherop,
Highnam,
Icomb, Innsworth, Kemble, Kempley, Kempsford, Kineton,
King's
Stanley, Knightsbridge, Kent's Green, Lasborough, Lassington, Laverton,
Lechlade, Leckhampton,
Leigh, Leighterton,
Leonard Stanley,
Little Rissington,
Little Witcombe,
Little Barrington, Little-dean, Long
Newnton, Longborough, Longford,
Longhope, Longney, Lower Slaughter,
Lower Apperley,
Lower
Dowdeswell, Lower Oddington, Lower Lemington,
Lower
Swell, Lower Berry Hill,
Lower Cam, Lydbrook, Lydney, Mickleton, Minchinhampton,
Mitcheldean,
Moreton-in-Marsh Milkwall, Moreton
Valance, Minsterworth,
Nailsworth,
Naunton, Newent, Newland, North
Nibley, Northleach, Northway,
Oakle
Street, Oakridge, Oldbury on the Hill,
Owlpen, Oxenton, Ozleworth, Parton,
Piff's
Elm, Prestbury, Priding, Quedgeley, Quenington,
Randwick,
The
Reddings,Redmarley D'Abitot, Rodborough,
Saintbury , Salperton , Sandhurst , Sapperton , Saul , Sedbury, Sevenhampton
, Sharpness
, Sheepscombe
, Sherborne
, Shipton
Moyne , Shipton , Shorncote ,
Shurdington
, Shuthonger , Siddington
, Slad , Slimbridge
, Snig's End , Snowshill ,
Somerford Keynes , South
Cerney , Southam , Southrop , St
Briavels , Stanton , Stanway , Staunton
, Staverton , Staverton Bridge
, Stinchcombe , Stoke
Orchard , Stone , Stonehouse , Stow-on-the-Wold
, Stowe ,
Stowell , Stratfod
, Stratton
, Stroat , Stroud
Green , Stroud , Sudgrove , Sunhill , Swindon
Village , Syde, Taynton,
Teddington, Tetbury, Tewkesbury,
Tidenham, Thrupp, Tredington,
Temple Guiting,
Tibberton, Througham
Slad, Uckington, Uley, Ullenwood, Up Hatherley, Upleadon, Upper
Dowdeswell, Upper Slaughter,
Upper Coberley,
Upper
Oddington, Upper Swell, Upper Framilode,
Upper Soudley, Upper Lydbrook,
Upton St Leonards,
Viney Hill, Walton
Cardiff, Whiteshill, Whitminster,
Whitminster Church, Winchcombe,
Winson,
Winstone, Withybridge, Woodchester,
Woodmancote, Wotton-under-Edge, Yanworth, Yorkley |
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Gloucestershire, England, U.K. Website
Resources
The following are links to
websites that will provide you with specific genealogical information to assist with your research
for this county. |
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GENERAL
RESOURCE WEBSITES |
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Use the
following LINKS to find more information that may pertain to this location. |
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Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia |
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Gloucestershire,
England, UK
Image Gallery
During our research we have collected and images and
photographs that are of general interest to a variety of localities. Some of them are presented on this website
because we believe they tend to provide the reader with additional information which may aid in the understanding of our ancestors past
lives. |
View of Ross-on-Wye from Symonds Yat Rock, in the
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire |
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If you have any
photographs or other images relating to this ancestral location we would greatly appreciate
hearing from you. |
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Use the
following LINK to ascertain whether we have any images that pertain to this
location. ANCESTRAL
LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHS and IMAGES |
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Contact Information
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Pony Express: Tom |
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Snail mail: Fred USA |
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