Churches in Blakeney (General)

by MPGriffiths , Monday, March 07, 2022, 21:36 (984 days ago) @ tanglewood

My Mum's family, the WICKENDEN's also transcribed as WIGINTON/WIGGINGTON/WICKENTON

13 March 1785
Elizabeth
parents: John & Ann
Notes: Blakeney Chapel
Parish Chapel : Awre

there are other baptisms for John & Ann WICKENDEN up to 1797 Parish Chapel: Awre, Note: Blakeney Chapel

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Genuki, Gloucestershire, Blakeney

The National Gazette of Great Britian and Ireland 1868

BLAKENEY, a chapelry in the parish of Awre, hundred of Bledisloe, in the county of Gloucester, 3 miles to the S of Newnham. It lies near the river Severn. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, of the value of £232, in the patronage of the Haberdashers' Company, London.

The church is dedicated to All Saints.
The Baptists have a chapel in the village.
Cattle fairs are held here on the 12 May and 12 November