Bristol St Nicholas with St Leonard, Gloucestershire Genealogy

Guide to Bristol St Nicholas with St Leonard, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Bristol St Nicholas with St Leonard is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Gloucestershire, created in 1766 from Bristol St Nicholas Ancient Parish and Bristol St Leonard Ancient Parish.

The following non-Church of England denominations were located somewhere in Bristol, but the exact parish has not been identified: Baptist, Calvinistic Methodist, Christians, Countess of Huntingdon Methodist, French Protestant, Jewish, Methodist, Moravian/United Brethren, Presbyterian, Society of Friends/Quaker, Swedenborgian/New Jerusalem/New Church, Unitarian, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Other places in the parish include: Bristol St Leonard.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church Records
Bristol St Leonard, Gloucestershire parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Bristol St Nicholas, Gloucestershire parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Non-Conformist Churches

 * 1642-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Gloucestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain