Gloucester Diocesan Records

GDR Volumes

GDR/A The Diocese

GDR/A1 General Acts, 1792-1886

GDR/A2 Surveys of the Diocese, 1831-c.1863

GDR/A3 Diocesan Boundaries, 1875-1907

GDR/A4 Statistical Returns, 1906-1938

GDR/A5 Assistant Bishop, 1892

GDR/A6 Diocese of Bristol, 1846-1897

GDR/A7 Chancellors of the Diocese, 1859-1923

GDR/A8 Archdeacons, 1905-1936

GDR/A9 Rural Deans, 1876-20th cent.

GDR/A10 Appointments of Surveyors, 1886-1930

GDR/A11 Restitution of Temporalities, 1661-1830

GDR/A12 Seals, 1905-1946

GDR/A13 Episcopal Houses of Residence, 1837-1905

GDR/A14 Individual Bishops, 1777-1959

GDR/A15 Assessors' Election Papers, 1885-1929

GDR/A16 Printed Works, 1763-1947

GDR/A17 Boards and Committees

GDR/A18 Diocesan Officials

GDR/A19 Diocesan Synod

GDR/A20 Lay Workers

GDR/B Consistory Court

GDR/B1 Act Book, 1886-1898

GDR/B2 Account Book, 1832-1863

GDR/B3 Minutes of Court, 1771-1857

GDR/B4 Court Papers, 16th-20th cents.

GDR/B5 Penance, c.1579-1809

GDR/B6 Excommunication, 1701-1806

GDR/B7 Chancellor's Orders, 1697

GDR/B8 Fees, 1677

GDR/B9 Apparitors, 1592-1835

GDR/C Visitation

GDR/C1 General, 1597-1883

GDR/C2 Visitation Accounts, 1690-1896

GDR/C3 Visitation Papers, 1683-1943

GDR/C4 Churchwardens' Presentments, 1591-1960

GDR/C5 Ministers' Articles of Enquiry, c.1680-1960

GDR/C6 Churchwardens' Accounts, 1684-1732

GDR/C7 Church Inventories, 1681-1914

GDR/C8 Midwives and Surgeons, 17th cent.-1775

GDR/D Benefice and Incumbent

GDR/D1 Presentations, 1541-1964

GDR/D2 Nominations, 1604-1955

GDR/D3 Grants of Next Presentation, 1553-1706

GDR/D4 Patrons' Petitions, 1736-1897

GDR/D5 Advowsons, 1626-1926

GDR/D6 Bishop's Notices, 1901-1951

GDR/D7 Institutions, Collations and Licensings, 1542-1941

GDR/D8 Letters Testimonial, 1617-1907

GDR/D9 Subscriptions, 1640-1949

GDR/D10 Commissions, 1725-1905

GDR/D11 Induction Mandates, 1606-1830

GDR/D12 Dispensations in Plurality, 17th cent.-1923

GDR/D13 Non-Residence on Benefices, 1804-1933

GDR/D14 Resignations, 1545-1956

GDR/D15 Relinquishment of Holy Orders, 1871-1918

GDR/D16 Sequestrations, 1711-1945

GDR/D17 Union and Disunion of Benefices, 1735-1929

GDR/D18 Licences for Divine Worship, 1823-1936

GDR/D19 General, 1716-c.1914

GDR/E Ordinands and Curates

GDR/E1 Deacons' Papers, 1715-1877

GDR/E2 Priests' Papers, 1715-1877

GDR/E3 Ordinands' Papers, 1718-1810

GDR/E4 Lists of Ordinands, 1715-1912

GDR/E5 Ordination Advertisement, 1806

GDR/E6 Ordination Sermon, 1876

GDR/E7 Ordinands' Subscriptions, 1874-1907

GDR/E8 Miscellaneous Ordination Papers, 1719-1783

GDR/E9 Nominations to Stipendiary Curacies, 1715-1914

GDR/E10 Licences to Stipendiary Curacies, 1766-1908

GDR/E11 Curates' Subscriptions, 1874-1925

GDR/F Fabric

GDR/F1 Faculties, 1619-1958

GDR/F2 Consecration Papers, 1832-1910

GDR/F3 Church Building, 1750-1909

GDR/F4 Parsonage Houses, 1768-1935

GDR/F5 Dilapidations, 1857-1931

GDR/F6 Burial Grounds, 1845-1948

GDR/F7 Inspection and repair of churches

GDR/G Episcopal Estates

GDR/G1 Registers of Leases, 1715-1856

GDR/G2 Leases, 1661-1905

GDR/G3 Estate Books and Papers, 1647-1856

GDR/G4 Orders in Council, 1847, 1855

GDR/G5 Leicestershire, 1834-1856

GDR/H Gloucester Cathedral

GDR/H1 Deans, 1569-1953

GDR/H2 Prebends and Canonries, 1562-1948

GDR/H3 Dean Newcombe, 1751

GDR/J Diocesan Registrars

GDR/J1 Appointments, 1898, 1905

GDR/J2 Accounts, 1705-1942

GDR/J3 Correspondence, 1858-1911

GDR/J4 General, 20th cent.

GDR/K Miscellanea

GDR/K1 Bell Papers, 1831-1847

GDR/K2 Deeds, 1725-1902

GDR/K3 Land Tax, 1799-1804

GDR/K4 General, 1596-1921

GDR/L Convocation

GDR/L1-49 Convocation Papers

GDR/M Charities

GDR/N Papists and Dissenters

GDR/N1 Papists, 1705-1780

GDR/N2 Dissenters, 1784-1838

GDR/O Correspondence and Petitions

GDR/O1 Miscellaneous, Correspondence, 1840-1863

GDR/O2 Petitions, 1687-1899

GDR/P Confirmation & Baptism

GDR/P1 Notices, 1834, 1849

GDR/P2 Returns, 1903-1966

GDR/Q Marriage

GDR/Q1 Marriage Licence Bonds, 1730-1823

GDR/Q2 Marriage Licence Allegations (Single), 1747-1837

GDR/Q3 Marriage Licence Allegations (Volumes), 1637-1823

GDR/Q4 Marriage Licences, 1714-1823

GDR/Q5 Marriage Licence Indexes, 1830-1906

GDR/Q6 Marriage Licence Abstracts, 1813-1830

GDR/Q7 Surrogates' Letters, 1717-1798

GDR/Q8 Surrogates' Appointments, 1815-1871

GDR/Q9 Surrogates' Bonds, 1754-1830

GDR/Q10-13 Marriage Licence Papers, 1686-1797

GDR/Q14 Roe Marriage Indexes

GDR/R Testamentary Bibury Peculiar SEE also GDR/D678

GDR/S Education

GDR/S1 Schoolmasters, 1578-1855

GDR/S2 School Sites, 1842-1905

GDR/S3 Diocesan Inspectors' Reports, 1872-1928

GDR/S4 Bristol, 1838-1853

GDR/T Tithe

GDR/T1 Tithe Apportionments and Maps, 1837-1927

GDR/T2 Tithe Books and Papers, 1792-1931

GDR/U Inclosure

GDR/U1 Awards, 1779, 1797

GDR/U2 General, 1765-1782

GDR/V Parish

GDR/V1 Bishop's Transcripts, 1569-1929

GDR/V2 Letters relating to the Transcripts, 1832

GDR/V3 Transcript Receipts, 1859-1871

GDR/V4 Parish Register Survey, 1813

GDR/V5 Glebe Terriers and Inventories, 1572-1914

GDR/V6 Parish Papers, 1706-1944

GDR/V7 Orders in Council, 1844-1909

GDR/V8 Parochial Libraries, 18th cent.

GDR/V9 Queen Anne's Bounty, 1753-1873

GDR/V10 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1865-1907

GDR/V11 Insurance, 1893-1904

GDR/V12 Fees, 1899-1936

GDR/V13 Churchwardens and Parish Clerks, 1711-1923

GDR/W Peculiar Jurisdictions

GDR/W1 Bibury

GDR/W2 Bishop's Cleeve

Withington

Deerhurst

Childswyckham

Flaxley

GDR/X Handlists

GDR/Y Diocesan Yearbooks

GDR/Z

Archdeacons' Records

Diocesan Registrar's Records

Diocesan Board of Finance

APPENDIX I The Hockaday Collections

APPENDIX II Bishops of Gloucester

APPENDIX III Bishops of Tewkesbury

APPENDIX IV Archdeacons of Gloucester from 1541

APPENDIX V Archdeacons of Cirencester and Cheltenham

APPENDIX VI Archdeacons of Bristol, 1836-1897

APPENDIX VII Deans of Gloucester

APPENDIX VIII Chancellors of the Diocese

APPENDIX IX Registrars

APPENDIX X Bishop's Transcripts

INDEX

A date in square brackets is that of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' date-stamp, where no date appears on original document.

New Style dating has been used throughout the Catalogue.

The number of documents in each bundle is given. In many cases this figure is only an approximation intended to indicate the size of the collection. Similarly, a few of the larger 'GDR volumes', where not foliated or paginated by F. S. Hockaday and not described in detail, have been given an approximate number of folios to indicate their size.

Many volumes have been foliated or paginated more than once, but it is advisable when in doubt to follow F. S. Hockaday's blue pencil foliation where it exists, or the ordinary pencil foliation made during the present cataloguing. A higher folio or page number preceding a lower (e.g., ff. 10-3, pp. 312-260) indicates that the volume has been used from both ends.

The spelling of place-names throughout this Catalogue has been taken from the 1967-1968 editions of the appropriate diocesan year books. Where there are variations within a year book the form more commonly found in the records has been adopted.

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ARCHDEACONRIES AND RURAL DEANERIES

There have been many changes in the boundaries of the diocese and of its archdeaconries and rural deaneries, particularly since 1836. This table sets out the important dates and main changes; the many transfers of parishes between deaneries are not noted here, but are indicated in the index at the back of this book.

1541 3 Sept - Foundation of the diocese of Gloucester

Rural Deaneries:

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Bristol, Gloucester, Campden, Hawkesbury, Cirencester, Stonehouse, Dursley, Stow, Fairford, Winchcombe.

Archdeaconry of Hereford: (The Archdeacon of Hereford retained his jurisdiction over the Forest deanery until 1836 when the deanery became part of Gloucester archdeaconry. His courts were held at Mitcheldean.)

1542 4 June - Foundation of the diocese of Bristol

The diocese of Gloucester remained as above, except that most of the large rural deanery of Bristol was transferred to the new diocese of Bristol, and only 10 parishes were left as the deanery of Bristol within the diocese of Gloucester.

This is the perpetuation of a mistake First published in to now disproved see Pxvi [note 1] of 'Records of the Diocese of Bristol'. (This affects the index entries for these parishes.)

These divisions remained the same until:

1836 (Order in Council 5 Oct.) Union of the dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol

Rural Deaneries:

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Campden, Stonehouse, Stow, Forest, Winchcombe, Gloucester

Archdeaconry of Bristol: Cirencester, Hawkesbury, Bristol, Fairford

1837 (Order in Council 19 July) Transfer of Cricklade and Malmesbury rural deaneries to the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol from the diocese of Salisbury (Archdeaconry of Wiltshire) Campden Stonehouse Bristol Fairford

Rural Deaneries:

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Campden, Stonehouse, Stow, Forest, Winchcombe, Gloucester

Archdeaconry of Bristol: Hawkesbury, Bristol, Fairford, Crickdale, Malmesbury, Cirencester

In the next thirty years the larger deaneries were gradually divided and came to be known as:

Forest North and Forest South

Stonehouse North and Stonehouse South

Winchcombe North and Winchcombe South

Bristol City and Bristol Rural

Hawkesbury North and Hawkesbury South

Malmesbury North and Malmesbury South

1870 - Creation of Northleach rural deanery

This was made up of parishes from Stow (Archdeaconry of Gloucester) and Cirencester (Archdeaconry of Bristol) rural deaneries; to avoid having to obtain an Order in Council the deanery was divided into North and South under one rural dean, and the parishes left in their respective archdeaconries.

1882 (Order in Council 30 Nov.) Creation of Archdeaconry of Cirencester. (This also regularized the 'North and South' divisions of rural deaneries)

Rural Deaneries:

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Dursley, Forest North, Forest South, Gloucester, Stonehouse North, Stonehouse South, Winchcombe North, Winchcombe South.

Archdeaconry of Bristol: Bristol City, Bristol Rural, Crickdale, Hawkesbury North, Hawkesbury South, Malmesbury North, Malmesbury South.

Archdeaconry of Cirencester: Campden (from Archdeaconry of Gloucester), Northleach North (from Archdeaconry of Gloucester), Stow (from Archdeaconry of Gloucester), Cirencester (from Archdeaconry of Bristol), Fairford (from Archdeaconry of Bristol), Northleach South (from Archdeaconry of Bristol).

1886 (Order in Council 31 Dec.; London Gazette 7 Jan. 1887) Changes in names and boundaries

Rural Deaneries:

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Bisley (formerly Stonehouse North), Cheltenham (formerly Winchcombe South), Dursley, Gloucester, Forest North, Forest South, Stonehouse (formerly Stonehouse South), Winchcombe (formerly Winchcombe North)

Archdeaconry of Bristol: Bitton (formerly Hawkesbury South), Bristol (formerly Bristol City), Chippenham (formerly Malmesbury South), Cricklade, Hawkesbury (formerly Hawkesbury North), Malmesbury (formerly Malmesbury North), Stapleton (formerly Bristol Rural)

Archdeaconry of Cirencester: Campden, Cirencester, Fairford, Northleach (formerly Northleach North and South), Stow

1897 (Order in Council 7 July) - The diocese of Bristol re-constituted with the following rural deaneries: Bitton, Cricklade, Bristol, Malmesbury, Chippenham, Stapleton (i.e., the former Archdeaconry of Bristol except Hawkesbury rural deanery)

The diocese of Gloucester now comprised:

1. Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Bisley, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Hawkesbury, Dursley, Stonehouse, Forest North, Winchcombe, Forest South

2. Archdeaconry of Cirencester: Campden, Northleach, Cirencester, Stow, Fairford

1907 (Order in Council 9 May) - Changes in boundaries; two new rural deaneries (Tetbury and Tewkesbury) added.

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Bisley, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Hawkesbury, Dursley, Stonehouse, Forest North, Tetbury, Forest South, Tewkesbury

Archdeaconry of Cirencester: Campden, Northleach, Cirencester, Stow, Fairford, Winchcombe

1919 (Orders in Council 30 July and 31 Oct.) - Archdeaconry of Cirencester renamed the Archdeaconry of Cheltenham; some re arrangement of rural deaneries.

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Bisley, Gloucester, Dursley, Hawkesbury, Forest North, Stonehouse, Forest South, Tewkesbury

Archdeaconry of Cheltenham: Campden, Northleach, Cheltenham, Stow, Cirencester, Tetbury, Fairford, Winchcombe

1952 - The rural deanery of Gloucester was divided into three: Gloucester City, Gloucester North, Gloucester South.

The present diocese of Gloucester is constituted as follows:

Rural Deaneries:

Archdeaconry of Gloucester: Bisley, Dursley, Forest North, Forest South, Gloucester City, Gloucester North, Gloucester South, Hawkesbury, Stonehouse, Tewkesbury

Archdeaconry of Cheltenham: Campden, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Fairford, Northleach, Stow, Tetbury, Winchcombe