Order it if you wish, but be prepared for the Latin and working out the Regnal year dates, and the jumbled up way the scribe of the day wrote up the various events when you view the film.

Otherwise, be patient, as I understand that it will be on this site when the transcription is complete.

It is not an easy task to transcribe these very old registers and it will do no harm for me to say that I, for one, have great admiration for the people who voluntarily undertake the difficult and painstaking work associated with these very old registers.

May

This is what the Gloucester Archives catalogue says about the Parish registers and the Bishops transcripts. The transcript of this register is nearing completion and should be available in a couple of months.

DocumentRef
P30 IN 1/1

Title
Baptisms, marriages and burials

Date
1538-1812

Description
Parchment copy, entries in confused order
Many entries relate to extra-parochial areas of the Forest of Dean
Gaps 1571-1580, 1605
Days of the week represented by zodiacal signs 1687-1692, 1711-1738
Includes baptisms at Blakeney chapel from 1710; mother's maiden name given from 1789; note of baptism at meeting house 1693 (p165) and 1695 (p166)
Includes marriages at Blakeney chapel from 1713; dates of publication of marriages given during Commonwealth 1654-1657 (pp191-192); notes of excommunication for non-lawful marriages 1686-1689 (pp 158-164); entry of marriage "after a new and odd manner" at the meeting house at Blakeney 1697 (p202)
Burials include many deaths from drowning or accident on Severn trows, particularly the shipwreck of the 'New Newnham' with the deaths of 17 passengers 1731 (p502); reference to tattooing on a drowned sailor 1794 (p546); sailor who died of the plague buried in the highway 1603 (p253); bastard baby strangled at birth 1691 (p212); occupations given 1698-1706
Contains numerous memoranda, including (p30) note about supposed local connections of Thomas Sternhold (d 1549) and John Hopkins (d 1570), versifiers of the Psalms [see 'DNB' and R Bigland, 'Historical Collections...of Gloucester', I, 101]; extract from will of [Edmond] Hammond of London, haberdasher, relating to endowment of vicarage undated (pp218-219); note of sale of parish brass furnace and pot undated (p306); notes relating to repairs to Awre church 1727-1757 (pp403, 412, 423, 428), and enlargement of Blakeney chapel 1749 (p421); entry relating to body-snatching 1733 (p504); note of tidal flood 1737 (p506)
At end: list of vicars of Awre 1544-1826, and assistant ministers of Blakeney c.1640-1826, with some biographical notes, particularly about deaths of Rev Henry James, imprisoned by Parliamentarian troops 1643, Rev James Whiting, drowned at Purton Passage 1677, Rev Thomas Lane and Rev Edmund Asheton both hanged themselves 1742, 1764
Notes about appointment of parsons are also found in register (eg pp416, 432)
A late survival of a medieval style occurs with the name "John of Awre" 1591-1595 (pp54, 61, 63)

NumberofDocs
2 volumes, 1 item

Notes
This register was originally one volume but after conservation work was split into two volumes and the original cover packaged separately

DocumentRef
GDR/V1/20

Title
Awre Bishop's Transcripts

Date
1586-1812

Description
1586-92, 1612, 1621-22, 1626, 1628, 1630, 1632, 1638, 1661, 1670-74, 1678-95, 1697-1729, 1731-35, 1737, 1740-52, 1754-1812