Iron Acton, Gloucestershire Family History Guide
Iron Acton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Gloucestershire.
Other places in the parish include: Latteridge, Angar Acton and Acton Ilgar.
Parish registers begin: 1570
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
Iron Acton Parish Registers
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers for Iron Acton.
Iron Acton St James the Less, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1570-1812
Iron Acton St James the Less, Bristol Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1922
Iron Acton, Gloucestershire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1857
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Iron Acton, Gloucestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1857
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Iron Acton, Gloucestershire Church of England Burials, 1813-1857
Historical Directories
Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1863
IRON ACTON is a parish and village, including the hamlet of LATTERIDGE and the tithing of ACTON ILGAR, 1 and a half north west from Yate station, and 3½ miles west north west from Chipping Sodbury, in Grumbald’s Ash and Thornbury hundreds, Chipping Sodbury union and county court district, West Gloucestershire, rural deanery of Hawkesbury, Bristol archdeaconry, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric.
There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans; and one boys and two girls schools, supported chiefly by the rector. Fairs are held on April 25th and September 13th, for cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs.
Iron ore was formerly dug here in considerable quantities, which in connection with works for smelting the same, accounts for the prefix iron to its name. The population in 1861 was 1,234 the acreage is 2,927.
BACKFIELD, Lodge Farm, Nibley Mill, Acton Mill, Pool, Mudgedown, and Newhouse, are places here. LATTERIDGE is a hamlet in the same county court district. Here are Sheepshouse and The Folly.
Iron Acton
Eccleston Miss Catherine
Leman the Misses
Ray Henry esq
Ray Mrs Susan
Salter Rev John Rectory
COMMERCIAL
Amos Edwin boot & shoe maker
Boulton George farmer
Cam Ann Miss shopkeeper
Cam Robert tailor
Cole William boot & shoe maker
Cornock Richard farmer Lodge farm
Coventry Jane shopkeeper
Coventry John shopkeeper
Daniel William farmer New House farm
Fry William wheelwright
Fugill John builder & shopkeeper
Gibbs Stephen farmer & miller Nibley mil
Holder Jonathan White Hart
Hooper William shopkeeper
Howard John tailor
Keepin Ann Miss butcher
Kendall Solomon boot & shoe maker
Mainstone Alfred shopkeeper
Mills Robert stonemason & tiler
Mills William farmer
Nichols Daniel saddle & harness maker & shopkeeper
Nichols John farmer & maltster
Parker Thomas Crown & farmer
Rathbone Thomas beer retailer
Roach Sarah Mrs shopkeeper
Savery Daniel blacksmith
Smith John farmer Pool farm
Smith Thomas farmer Mudgedown
Stickler William blacksmith
Sweatman Wm baker & confectioner
Washbourne John Codrington Arms
Williams Charles farmer
Williams James, Lamb, & butcher
Winter William farmer
Latteridge
Blanche Jonathan farmer
Cullemore James carpenter wheel wright & undertaker
Meredith Mark farmer
Parry Joseph farmer Sheepshouse farm
Roach Charles farmer
Roach James farmer Folly farm
Taylor John farmer
Till George Plough
Acton Ilgar
Croome Rev William curate
COMMERCIAL
Gibbins Thomas farmer
Gibbs Charles farmer
Gibbs Joseph farmer
Keepin Thomas farmer
Prior Thomas beer retailer
Shepherd Sarah Mrs farmer & miller
Shipp Robert farmer
Post Office – John Fugill postmaster. Letters arrive through Bristol at 9 am; dispatched at 4 pm. The money order office is at Frampton Cotterell. Police Station, Alfred Messenger, police constable.
OMNIBUSES daily, from Wotton under Edge, pass through Iron Acton to Bristol; Riddeford, monday wednesday & friday; Stephen Derrett, tues. thurs & sat
CARRIERS – George Mainstone, monday, wednesday & saturday; William Cook tuesday & thursday.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol, Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1863.
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Richardson Thomas, Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, tanner, Feb. 6, 1821.
Parish History
Iron Acton
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
IRON-ACTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Chipping-Sodbury district, Gloucester. The village stands 1½ mile NW of Yate r. station, and 3½ NW by W of Chipping-Sodbury; and has a post office under Bristol, and fairs on 25 April and 13 Sept.
The parish contains also the hamlets of Latteridge and Acton-Ilgar. Acres, 2,927. Real property, £6,335. Pop., 1,234. Houses, 303. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Walter Long, Esq. Coal, limestone, and iron ore occur; and the last was, at one time, so largely dug and smelted as to give rise to the prefix Iron in the name of the parish.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £714. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church is later English, in fair condition; has a lofty tower; and contains a handsome monument to Robert Poyntz. Remains of an ancient cross, very fine but much disfigured, are in the churchyard. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, and charities £10. The sub-district contains also three other parishes. Acres, 11,396. Pop., 5,252. Houses, 1,142.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Angar Acton
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Acton, Angar, a tything, in the parish of Iron-Acton, Lower division of the hundred of Grumbald’s-Ash, W. division of the county of Gloucester.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Gloucestershire
- Civil Registration District: Chipping Sodbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre 1836 – Gloucester, Post 1835 – Gloucester and Bristol
- Rural Deanery: Hawkesbury
- Poor Law Union: Chipping Sodbury
- Hundred:
- Province: Canterbury