STAUNTON

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Transferred in 1931 from Worcestershire to Gloucestershire [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO781292
8 miles north of Gloucester on the A417

Parish Church:
St.James, adjacent to Staunton Court Business Park & Craft Centre

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1952, Diocese of Gloucester (1952 - *)[25]

Hundred:
Lower Pershore [44] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Newent [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Eldersfield; Corse (Gloucestershire); Hartpury (Gloucestershire); Upleadon (Gloucestershire); Pauntley (Gloucestershire); Redmarley D'Abitot [1]

Parish Registers:
No Parish Registers held at Worcestershire Record Office

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1604 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

Register Copies:
Christenings 1559-1879, Marriages 1559-1837, Burials 1559-1916 Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucesterhire FHS marriage index: 1800-37 Gloucestershire Archives

STAUNTON NEAR LEDBURY (St. James) : Marriages 1800-37 [Typescript.]   Published , 1981   Author Gloucestershire FHS (transcription.) Source D: Gloucestershire FHS Society of Genealogists [68]

Census Records:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit. 

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses.  Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
1841 1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
18511861 - 91 Gloucestershire Archives

Schools Records:
A handlist of the records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

Directories:
STAUNTON, a parish forming, with the parishes of Chaseley and Eldersfield, a distinct portion of the lower division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (N.E. by E.) from Newent, containing 308 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £ 11. 5., and in the patronage of Joseph Hill, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. James, is partly in the decorated, and partly in the later, style of English architecture, with a tower and spire. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 12th July 2011

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