Elkstone Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Elkstone is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Other places included in the parish include: Cockleford and Combend.
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Parish registers begin: 1592
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Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Elkstone, a parish in Cirencester district, Gloucester; near Ermine-street, 7½ miles NNW of Cirencester r. station. Post-town, Brimpsfield, under Stroud. Acres, 2,058. Real property, £2,261. Pop., 320. Houses, 70. The property is divided among a few. Stone is quarried.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £360. Patron, the Hon. R. K. Craven. The church is very ancient, but good; is partly early English; and has a fine Norman door.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A Fullerton & Co. N.d.c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Elkstone, a parish in the hund, of Rapsgate, union of Cirencester, county of Gloucester; 7½ miles north-north-west of Cirencester, and east of the Ermine street. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. and dio. of Gloucester, now in the archd. of Gloucester and dio. of Gloucester and Bristol; rated at £12 9s. 2d.; gross income £382. Patron, in 1835, the Hon. A. B. Craven.
The church is supposed to be the most ancient in the county.
Here is a daily school.
Acres 2,100. Houses 64. A.P. £1,688. Pop., in 1801, 299; in 1831, 299. Poor rates, in 1838, £96.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
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Parish Registers
Marriages at Elkstone 1592 to 1812
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Marriages at Elkstone 1800 to 1812
[No marriages recorded for 1800 to 1801]
Edward Davis, b., & Catharine Turner, s., 13 July 1802
Thomas Sadler, b., & Hannah Harding, 28 Aug. 1802
John Miffling, w., & Mary Wilks, w., 12 Oct. 1802
John Edwards, p. Hereford, b., & Martha Howell Bennett, lic., 13 Oct. 1802
William Wilkins, p. Rodmarton, co. Glouc., & Sarah Harding, 21 Nov. 1802
Richard Paish Turner, b., & Arabella Williams, s., 17 Oct. 1804
Joseph Brown Cull, p. St. Michael, Gloucester, w., & Dinah Bond, s., 10 Sept. 1805
Giles Davies, b., & Mary Sparrow, s., 7 Oct. 1805
John Ludlow & Phoebe Turner, 13 Oct. 1806
William Ellis, p. Rendcombe, co. Glouc., b., & Sarah Lyne, s., 15 Nov. 1806
Richard Harding, b., & Mary Sergeant, s., 25 Dec. 1806
Edward Randford, b., & Ann Hillman, s., 25 May 1807
Thomas Edwards, p. Kingston, co. Hereford, b., & Susan Bennett, s., lic., 9 Sept. 1807
John Eykin, p. St. Martin’s, co. Oxford, b., & Mary Bennett, s., lic., 9 Sept. 1807
Samuel Smith, b., & Ann Limerick, s., 29 Oct. 1807
John Clissold, b., & Ann Manners, s., 2 Nov. 1807
Charles Scrivens, p. Cowley, b., & Sarah Clapham, 6 June 1808
John Sage, b., & Susannah Saunders, s., 25 Dec. 1808
Giles Newcomb, of E., b., & Caroline Elisabeth Atkins, p. Cirencester, s., 22 June 1810
William Cotes, of E., b., & Rebecca Brown, p. Badgeworth, s., 7 Aug. 1810
Daniel Snow, b., & Ann Snow, w., 26 Feb. 1811
Thomas Painter, p. Rodmarton, b., & Ann Booker, s., 7 May 1811
William Winning, p. Brimpsfield, co. Glouc., b., & Elisabeth Sadler, lic., 25 Feb. 1812
Conway Whithorn Lovesy, p. Charlton Kings, co. Glouc., b., & Margaret Bennett, E., s., lic., 1 July 1812
Simeon Frye, of E., b., & Elizabeth Smith, s., 26 Nov. 1812
Thomas Miles, b., & Mary Brunsden, s., 17 Dec. 1812
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900
Marriages at Elkstone 1775 to 1799
Richard Liffully, b., & Mary Jordan, s., lic., 16 Feb. 1775
John Ludlow & Sarah Hall, 28 Aug. 1775
Joseph Tanner, p. Cirencester, co. Glouc., w., & Rachel Taylor, w., lic., 17 Sept. 1775
John Sage & Hester Bolton, 16 Dec. 1777
Thomas Harding, of E., & Anne Williams, p. Baunton, 24 Jan. 1778
Charles Carpenter, p. Bibury, & Elisabeth Sadler, lic., 21 Jan. 1779
Henry Snow, b., & Sarah Hughes, s., 17 June 1779
Francis Grainger, p. North Cerney, w., & Mary Williams, s., 15 Aug. 1779
Randal Ireland, b., & Ann Sparrow, s., 9 Oct. 1779
William Hawcot, b., & Ann Prat, s., 24 May 1780
William Hayward, p. North Cerney, co. Glouc., & Ann Woodman, – May 1780
Lawrence Dyer, p. Charlton Kings, & Sarah Tombs, s., 21 Sept. 1780
James Hill, p. Cirencester, & Mary Turner, 19 Nov. 1780
Thomas Smith, p. Daglingworth, & Betty Turner, 14 Dec. 1780
John Miffling, p. Quenington, & Anne Sadler, 3 Feb. 1781
Robert Jordan & Ann Birch, 3 May 1781
William Phelps & Ann Spires, 29 July 1781
Benjamin Caudle & Mary Harries, 17 June 1782
Henry Bubb & Mary Curtis, 1 July 1782
Richard Lidyard & Mary Hopkins, 22 July 1782
James Sadler & Mary Bubb, 3 Oct. 1782
Richard Newcombe, of E., & Elizabeth Cross, p. Winstone, 25 Jan. 1784
Samuel Painter, of E., & Susannah Warren, p. of Winstone, 17 July 1785
Daniel Snow & Hannah Townley, 17 Aug. 1785
John Kerlock & Betty Painter, 7 Jan. 1787
Richard Bartlet & Ann Miles, 20 July 1787
Joseph Burdge & Ruth Musty, lic., 6 Nov. 1789
Richard Herbert, b., & Rachel Burdge, s., 7 Jan. 1790
John Bishop, p. Colesbourne, b., & Rebecca Poole, s., 20 May 1790
John Fry, b., & Mary Shill, s., 5 Jan. 1791
Joseph Bliss, w., & Sarah Lyne, s., lic., 21 Oct. 1793
Robert Harding, b., & Betty Burdge, s., 11 Feb. 1795
William Hall, b., & Catharine Hall, s., 3 June 1795
Richard Booker, b., & Ann Humphriss, s., 25 July 1796
Thomas Smart, p. Churchdown, b., & Sarah Miles, s., 3 July 1797
John Barton, b., & Comfort Sadler, s., 23 Sept. 1797
William Proctor, p. Bishops Cleve, b., & Mary Ebsworth, s., lic., 4 July 1798
Thomas Hooper (curate of Elkstone), b., & Judith Rebecca Parett, p. St. George, Westminster, s., lic., 10 July 1798
Bartley Wilson, p. Colesbourn, b., & Lucy Ann Dyer, w., lic., 13 Oct. 1798
Charles Frye, b., & Alice Sparrow, s., 20 Nov. 1798
John Shillom, b., & Elizabeth Hall, s., 1 Dec. 1798
Edward Hiscox, b., & Jane Willis, s., 4 Feb. 1799
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900
Marriages at Elkstone 1756 to 1774
Volume IV.
Henry Turner, of E., & Sarah Pinching, s., 30 Mar. 1756
Joseph Taylor, p. Cheltenham, w., & Esther Lawrance, s., lic., 28 Nov. 1756
John Sparrow, p. Brimpsfield, & Anne Belcher, 16 Apr. 1757
William Hemming & Mary Bond, 2 Oct. 1757
William Harding & Anne Dean, 23 Oct. 1758
James Sadler & Susanna Boyce, 25 June 1759
John Haslum, p. Winchcombe, co. Glouc., b., & Mary Baylis, s., lic., 8 Feb. 1760
John Robins & Jane Smart, 1 July 1760
Richard Fletcher & Mary How, 15 Aug. 1761
Joseph Harris & Mary Sadler, 8 Oct. 1761
William Bishop, w., & Alice Boroughs, s., 14 Dec. 1761
Thomas Poole, b., & Mary Burrows, s., 29 Dec. 1761
Richard Barnfield & Margaret Robinson, 13 June 1762
Henry Bubb, b., & Anne Ebsworth, s., of E., lic., 6 July 1762
John Mills, p. Withington, & Frances Wilbraham, lic., 14 Sept. 1762
John Stollard, of E., & Elizabeth Arnell, p. of Colesbourne, 6 Oct. 1763
Joseph Shill & Mary Yeates, 10 Oct. 1763
Thomas Powis, b., & Elisabeth Saunders, s., 4 Apr. 1764
George Ebsworth & Anne Day, lic., 6 Nov. 1764
Robert Timbrell, p. Duntisborne Abbots, & Anne Bond, 21 Oct. 1766
William Jordan, w., & Mary Abel, s., lic., 12 Feb. 1767
Thomas Biddle, p. Dunsbourne Abbots, & Jane Hamlet, 24 Aug. 1767
Robert Abell, p. North Cerney, & Catharina Salina Ebsworth, 1 Aug. 1768
Anthony Sadler, w., & Elisabeth Hud, s., lic., 29 Dec. 1769
Richard Shill & Anne Heal, 17 Jan. 1770
James Hobbs, p. Duntisbourne Abbots, & Elisabeth Sadler, lic., 14 Nov. 1771
William Beames, of E., b., & Lewis Turfrey, p. Darking, co. Kent, s., lic., 17 Nov. 1772
John Haydon, p. Haresfield, co. Glouc., w., & Elisabeth Wathen, w., lic., 23 Nov. 1772
John Fletcher, p. Whittington, b., & Becky Kendall, s., lic., 3 Apr. 1773
William Ranford & Sarah Poole, 3 Aug. 1773
Thomas Cooke, b., & Sarah Collett, s., 3 Aug. 1773
William Arkill, b., & Alice Hall, s., 2 Nov. 1773
Thomas Harding, p. Baunton, co. Glouc., b., & Betty Jordan, s., lic., 8 Nov. 1773
Source: Gloucestershire Parish Register. Marriages. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L., Vol. VI. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co., 124, Chancery Lane, London. 1900
Gloucestershire Historical Directories
Directory Transcriptions
Elkstone Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856
Elkstone is a township, parish and village of the Cotswold district, about 1 mile from the high road between Cirencester and Gloucester, 8 north-west from Cirencester, and 7 south from Cheltenham. It is in the Hundred of Rapsgate, Cirencester Union, East Gloucestershire, and bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol.
The church of St. John the Evangelist, said to be one of the most ancient in the county, has a high square tower with 4 bells; the chancel and doorcase are supposed to have been built soon after the Norman accession.
The living is a rectory, value £420 per annum, in the gift of Earl Craven. The Rev. Edward Ness is the present incumbent.
The population of the parish, in 1851, was 336, and the acreage 2,658. Earl Craven is lord of the manor, and, with Thomas Dunn, Esq., is the chief landowner in the parish. The soil is clayey, and the subsoil, rock.
Cockleford and Combend are hamlets, distant from the church 1 mile; Manor Farm and Highgate are farms.
Ness Rev. Edward (rector)
Traders
Draper Edwin, ‘Cockleford,’ & blacksmith, Cockleford
Cripps – , farmer, Butler’s farm
Howell Thomas, farmer, Combend
Reed James Marsh, farmer, Manor farm
Sadler Henry, farmer, Highgate
Letters through Cirencester. The nearest money order office is at Cheltenham.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Cirencester
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Stonehouse
- Poor Law Union: Cirencester
- Hundred: Rapsgate
- Province: Canterbury