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The city of Gloucester, the county seat, began around AD 96-98 as a colony named "Glevum" created for Roman legionary veterans, and was founded on the site of an earlier Roman fort. Cirencester, then known as Corinium, was also an important Roman city. In the seventh century, Gloucestershire was one of the areas occupied by the people known as the Hwicce, who were a mix of Anglian and Saxon stock . In later Anglo-Saxon times, Gloucestershire was part of the kingdom of Mercia, which was in turn defeated by the kingdom of Wessex. In medieval times, the county prospered greatly from the wool trade.
Today, Gloucestershire has a population of over one million people; its area of 1,255 square miles is roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island. The eastern part of the county is in the Cotswolds, one of the most beautiful areas of the island, and is commonly used for sheep grazing. Dairy farming is popular in the central part of the county, near the river Severn. The western part of the county is on the Welsh border, and features the lovely Forest of Dean.Genealogical/Historical Societies
Gloucestershire Family History Society
County/Municipal Offices or Diocese
Gloucestershire Record Office Home Page
Gloucestershire Record Office
County and Diociesan Archivist
Gloucestershire Record Office
Clarence Row
Alvin Street
Gloucester GL1 3DW
Tel: Gloucester (01452) 425295
Fax: (01452) 426378Main Administrative Office:
Church House
College Green
Gloucester GL1 2LY
Tel: 01452 410022
Fax: 01452 308324
E-mail: glosdioc@star.co.ukDiocesan Record Office:
Diocesan Archivist: Mr David J H Smith, MA
Record Office
Clarence Row
Gloucester GL1 3DW
Tel: 01452 425295
Libraries
Gloucestershire County Library - Gloucestershire CollectionCounty Library Arts & Museums Officer
Gloucestershire Collection
Gloucester Library
Brunswick Road
Gloucester GL1 1HT
Tel: Gloucester (01452) 426979
Fax: (01452) 521468
Queries and Surnames
Email Lists
The GLOUCESTER Mailing List, a list for Gloucestershire genealogy.
To subscribe, send an e-mail to the list-format of your choice, with the command subscribe in the body of the message.GLOUCESTER-d-request@rootsweb.com (for the digest format), or
GLOUCESTER-l-request@rootsweb.com (for the individual-message format)Newsgroups of possible interest for British research:
Other Links
The General Register Office hold all the Certificates of Birth, Death and Marriage for England and Wales since 1837. They also hold Adoption Certificates. Includes details of Postal Applications and Certificate Fees.
IGI Batch Numbers Includes batch numbers for all English counties.
FreeBMD (Birth, Marriage and Death Database)
FreeREG (Baptism, Marriage and Burial Database)
Latin Words to Recognise in old parish registers hosted by Rootsweb.
The Domesday Book Includes The Domesday Story, Landowners, Place Name Origins, etc.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Forest of Dean Genealogy Pages
Gloucestershire Genealogy - Flight Family History
Monumental Inscriptions - Gloucestershire
Cheltenham Spa - Centre for the Cotswolds
Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire
Visit Gloucestershire & the Cotswolds
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
The UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service
This site is part of the EnglandGenWeb Project, a non-profit genealogical resource network.
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Gloucestershire, EnglandGenWeb Coordinator,
Donna Allen
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