Uley, Gloucestershire Genealogy

England   Gloucestershire   Gloucestershire Parishes

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/uley.htm
 * http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk
 * http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Uley/
 * http://www.john.wilkes.dial.pipex.com/uley.shtml

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

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

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.