Contents 1
The areas to be covered in volume 1 are:
1. Gloucestershire Born and Bred
- What to look for at home
- Organisation of work, recording
- County of Gloucestershire
- Dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol
- Gloucestershire parishes
- Hundreds
- Gloucestershire Archives
- Victoria County History series
2. Civil Registration
- Background to civil registration
- Gloucestershire registration districts
- Birth certificates
- Marriage certificates
- Death certificates
- How to order a certificate
- Gloucestershire Register Offices
- Available indexes
3. Censuses
- Background information
- Censuses 1841-1911
- Pre-1841 Names censuses
4. Parish Registers
- Background information
- Baptisms, marriages and burials
- Calendar changes
- Bishops Transcripts
- International Genealogical Index
- Other indexes
- Gaps in the Gloucestershire IGI
- Gaps in the parish registers
5. Nonconformist Records
- Background information
- Gloucestershire Records
- Baptists
- Church of Christ
- Congregational / Independent
- Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion
- Jewish
- Methodist
- Moravian
- Presbyterian
- Roman Catholic
- Society of Friends / Quakers
- Unitarian
- Undenominational
- Huguenots
- Indexes
6. Probate
- Ancient rules of inheritance
- Nuncupative wills
- Wills pre 1858
- Prerogative Courts of Canterbury and York
- Wills proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Gloucester
- South Gloucestershire and Bristol Wills
- Peculiar Wills
- Wills since 1858
- National Probate Calendars
- Letters of Administration
- Inventories
7. More on Births
- Still birth
- Foundlings and Orphans
- Adoption
- Illegitmacy
- bastardy bonds
- maintenance orders
8. More on Marriages
- Banns
- Marriage Licences, Bonds and Allegations
- Irregular and clandestine marriages
- Marriage settlements
- Adultery
- Divorce
- Bigamy
- Marriages in newspapers
9. More on Deaths
- Burials
- Nonconformist burials
- Burial Grounds
- Cemeteries and Crematoria
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Memorial Cards
- Undertakers’ Records
- Newspaper announcements
- Death Duties
- Inquisitiones Post Mortem
10. Coroners Records
- Coroners’ districts
- Periods of coverage
- Types of records
- Inquests
- Post Mortems
- Accidents
- Suicide
- Murder and Execution
11. Sessions and Assizes
- Background Information
- Petty Sessions
- Session divisions
- Types of record
- Quarter Sessions
- Assizes
- Judges and Juries
- Calendars of Prisoners
12. Gaols and Houses of Correction
- Houses of Correction
- Gaols
- Admission registers
- Lists of Prisoners
- Governors’ Journals
- Surgeons’ Journals
- Punishment Books
- Photograph Albums
- Reformatories
- Transportation
- Executions
And much more to come in Volume 2!
