Uley, Gloucestershire Genealogy

Guide to Uley, Gloucestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
ULEY (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Dursley, Upper division of the hundred of Berkeley, W.division of the county of Gloucester, 2½ miles (E. by N.) from Dursley. The parish is situated on the road from Berkeley to Stroud and Cheltenham.

Uley is located in the southern Cotswold Hills of Gloucestershire, about. It is Historical information for Uley is given on the following websites:


 * http://www.bioeddie.co.uk/uley/
 * http://www.glosgen.co.uk/records/uley.htm
 * http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk
 * http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Uley/
 * https://www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk/churches/st-giles-uley/history-st-giles/

Find Neighboring Parishes
Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map
 * Type the name of the parish in the search bar
 * Click on the location pin on the map
 * Choose Options from the pop up box
 * Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Church Records
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Chapelry is a church or churches built in a large ecclesiastical parish to help the members attend worship services closer to their homes.

Chapelries of Uley
Online Parish Records Table

Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Gloucestershire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Gloucestershire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformist Churches (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at FindMyPast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)
 * 1642-1996 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index (dates may vary by parish)

Civil Registration
From 1837 until 1946, Uley was in the civil registration district of Dursley. Until 1852, Dursley was included in volume 11 of the national quarterly registers. Beginning in 1852, it was in volume 6A. These records are indexed online. See England Civil Registration.

Probate Records
Before 1858, Uley was under the probate jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. Beginning in 1858, it was under the jurisdiction of the civil Gloucester Probate Registry.

The records for 1541-1858 are indexed online in the Gloucestershire Genealogical Database. Once you have searched the index, return to the Wiki and go to the article on the Court of the Bishop of Gloucester for information on obtaining the records.

Original records are deposited at the Gloucestershire Archives.