Winterbourne, Gloucestershire Genealogy

England   Gloucestershire

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
Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, non conformists and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

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

Web sites
Winterbourne Family History Online is hosted by Frenchay Village Museam. Follow the link below.

www.frenchaymuseumarchives.co.uk/NewArchives.htm

Once there by clicking on the "Archive" tab you will be taken to the key page for all the research data available on the web site. Listed in the archive is transcribed Parish Register Records for St Michael, Winterbourne Down All Saints, Frenchay St.John the Baptist and Frampton Cotterell St. Peter's covering the years 1600-2002 for Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.. Also available are Census records from 1841-1901 as well as quite a bit of history about Winterbourne.