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
St. James: Marriages 1800-37 [Typescript.] - Published , 1981 - Author: Gloucestershire FHS (trans.) Society of Genealogists [68]

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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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 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 8th February 2010

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