William STAIT 1817 & family - Temple Guiting area (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, February 09, 2013, 17:58 (4307 days ago) @ Jim Davis

Hi Jim,
hope the weather's not too bad where you are ?

As Slowhands has stated this is a Forest of Dean forum/site, so about 15 miles southwest of Gloucester city and the opposite side of the city/county from your research area by the look of it. Hence not really our area of knowledge/records. I realsie this may seem odd given the vastness of North America but altho only 25 or so miles away the Forest of Dean is a world away from the Cotswolds in so many ways.

Another VERY strongly-recommended website which should help you get to know an area of the UK, especially from a C19th viewpoint, is the excellent Genuki site which mixes genealogy with local geography & history, I often use it.

eg for Temple Guiting
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/GuitingTemple/Gaz1868.html

This site has a huge amount of useful information about a given area, plus good guidelines wrt the boundaries of the various local government registration districts as they were thro the years, eg Temple Guiting & Winchcombes here
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/north%20cotswold.html

Do hope they help you further, both these extensive websites will probably help you enormously given thorough study, good luck !.

PS re the church this may be of interest
http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Temple-Guiting.htm