CUTSDEAN

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Cuttesdean

Directories:
CUTSDEAN, a chapelry in that part of the parish of BREDON which is in the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, though locally in the upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, county of Gloucester, 7 miles (W. by S.) from Moreton in the Marsh, containing 112 inhabitants. There is a trifling endowment for educating children. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Chapel (detached) in Bredon Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish in 1866. Ecclesiastically severed in 1912 and transferred to Temple Guiting Ancient Parish, Gloucestershire, to help create Temple Guiting with Cutsdean Ecclesiastical Parish. Transferred in 1931 from Worcestershire to Gloucestershire.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP088301
7 miles W.N.W. of Stow-on-the-Wold alongside the B4077

Parish Church:
St.James

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Peculiar of the incumbent [1] Cutsdean was transferred from the Diocese of Worcester to the Diocese of Gloucester in 1912. [5]

Hundred:
In Upper Oswaldslow, Worcestershire though locally in Upper Kiftsgate, Gloucestershire [44]

Poor Law Union:
Winchcombe [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Stanway; Bourton on the Hill; Sezincote ; Longborough; Condicote; Temple Guiting; Didbrook (all in Gloucestershire) [1]

Parish Registers:
No Parish Registers held at Worcester Record Office. The original registers are held at Gloucestershire Archives [5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1634 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]
1695-1974 Gloucestershire Archives

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	C:1634-75 (10%)

Register Copies:
Christenings 1695-1993 Marriages 1697-1837 Burials 1697-1990 Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucestershire FHS marriage index: 1802-37 Gloucestershire Archives
St. James: Marriages 1800-37: Gloucestershire marriages, vol. 19 [Typescript.] - Author: Gloucestershire FHS (trans) Society of Genealogists

Nonconformist:
Church roll: Baptists 1839-1948 Gloucestershire Archives

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1841 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 Gloucestershire Archives
1861-91 Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucestershire 1891 census returns: Winchcomb registration district RG 12/2039-2040 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office, 2003 Society of Genealogists

Other Sources:
Name index of overseers of the poor papers for parishes Abenhall - Moreton Valance [Microfiche.] - Published Gloucester : Gloucestershire FHS, 1999 - Authors: Loosley, John & Bright, John Society of Genealogists

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