Withington, Gloucestershire Genealogy

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

Parish History
WITHINGTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of North leach, hundred of Bradley, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 6 miles (W.) from Northleach.

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
Withington parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the Gloucestershire Archives.

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.

Withington was a peculiar under the Bishop of Gloucester. For information about probate records in England, click here.


 * Click here for information about the Court of the Peculiar of Withington and its probate records.
 * Index: click here for an alphabetical list of the 97 persons whose wills were proven in the peculiar court between 1622 and 1776.

Steps:


 * Look in the index to the Court of the Peculiar of Withington by clicking on the link above.
 * If you find reference to a will of interest to you, click on the link above for information about the probate court's records.
 * Obtain a copy of the will, either by writing to England or by viewing it on microfilm. Click here for more information.
 * If no reference of interest is found, search the records of the Court of the Bishop of Gloucester. If you are looking for a will after 1776, you should also check the Bishop's court.

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