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"THORNBURY, a parish, post and market town, in the lower division of the hundred of the same name, county Gloucester, 11 miles N.E. of Bristol, and 22 S.W. of Gloucester. It is situated in the vale of Berkeley, on the banks of a small rivulet, about 2 miles E. of the river Severn, and near the Gloucester railway. It is a polling-place for the W. division of the county, and a petty sessions town. The parish contains the chapelries of Falfield, Oldbury-on-Severn, Rangeworthy, and the tything of Kington Moorton, where the Union poorhouse is situated.
[Extracted from transcription of The National Gazetteer of
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- Original source material relating to Thornbury, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the Gloucestershire Archives.
- Thornbury Museum - as well as describing the Museum's holdings, this site has a brief account of Thornbury, The Town - "The Historic Borough and Town of Thornbury".
- Comprehensive transcriptions of MIs in Thornbury are available on the Churches and Cemetery pages on Thornbury Roots website. In particular St Mary's Parish Churchyard
The tables below summarise the extent of the registers of the main parish Church, St Mary the Virgin
| Type | Period | Notes |
| Baptisms | 1550 - 1995 | |
| Banns | 1550 - 1995 | |
| Marriages | 1550 - 1995 | |
| Burials | 1550 - 1995 | |
| Draft Registers | 1627 - 1647 | Rough Registers and drafts |
| 1684 - 1751 | ||
| 1775 and undated |
| Source | Period | Type | Images | Transcriptions | Search | Notes |
| Thornbury Roots | Free | |||||
| 1550 -1699 | Baptisms | N | Y | In individual docs | ||
| 1550 - 1608 | Marriages | N | Y | In individual docs | ||
| 1550 - 1699 | Burials | N | Y | In individual docs | ||
| Scribes Alcove | Free | |||||
| 1737 - 1881 | Baptisms | N | Y | Full | ||
| 1700 -1900 | Marriages | N | Y | Full | Except 1719 - 1728 | |
| 1700 - 1900 | Burials | N | Y | Full | ||
| Free BMD | Free | |||||
| 1837-2011 | Births, Marriages, Beaths | Y | N | Full | Images are of index. Thornbury is in the ? Registration district | |
| Find My Past | Pay for details | |||||
| Baptisms, Marriages, Burials | Y | Y | ||||
| Ancestry | Pay for details | |||||
| Baptisms, Marriages, Burials | Y | Y | ||||
| Other | ||||||
| ??? | Baptisms, Marriages, Burials | Y | ||||
- Snippet from the parish register:
"NB On Saturday March the Eleventh 1780, Bread was brought from Iron Acton to Thornbury, and sold at the following Rate: viz. Best Wheaten, Twelve pounds weight for one shilling, Best Household Whn, Fourteen (pounds) for one shilling. At wch time Bread was made and sold in Thornbury, at much lesser weight, at the same price." - ex. RRL, 1988.
- Transcription of section of Pigot's Directory of Gloucestershire, 1830 for Tetbury, Tewkesbury & Thornbury, by Ted Wildy.
- The transcription of the section for Thornbury from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Thornbury to another place.
- Thornbury Roots The local group in Thornbury has produced a very useful site. Specific links are given in various categories
- There are some useful pictures on Index of Thornbury Past on Images of Thornbury
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference ST647909 (Lat/Lon: 51.615961, -2.51059), Thornbury which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Abstracts of Rockhampton, Thornbury & Oldbury on Severn WILLS 1541 - 1567, 1568 - 1576 and 1577 - 1599;
and of Thornbury & Oldbury on Severn WILLS 1600 - 1614, 1615 - 1624, 1625 - 1635 and 1636 - 1650, transcribed by Leslie Mahler.
- U3A is a local society with a family history group