College Precincts (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, April 03, 2013, 10:51 (4254 days ago) @ jmj9

Thanks slowhands.

The only other Canning that comes up connected with St.Mary de Lode Church (where John & Ann married under licence. Her name appeas as Nancy.) is Robert Canning (a widow from Hartpury) marrying Maria Cheston on 19 July 1826. I'm presuming he may be one of the Canning family from Hartpury/Foxcote - although I have never found any evidence to suggest my family are connected to them (other than sharing surname). However, I have found it difficult to locate a family tree for the Hartpury/Foxcote Cannings to verify this.

Also does anyone know about the the College Precincts to Gloucester Cathedral and who used to live there (i.e. would the Cathedral records contain any interesting information) please? ( I live outside the area.)

I've also now discovered there was a Charles Edward Canning who got married in Frampton on Severn in 1914, so will check his family back to see if it links up with mine.

JMJ9

"COLLEGE PRECINCTS, an extra-parochial place in the city of Gloucester, in the county of Gloucester." i.e. an area outside an specific Parish like areas of the FoD, although in this case is more likely to be very close to the Cathederal.

GLOUCESTER, a city, an inland port, the head of a union, and a county of itself, locally in the hundred of Dudstone and King's-Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 34 miles (N. N. E.) from Bristol, and 107 (W. N. W.) from London, on the road to South Wales; containing, with the College Precincts, which are extraparochial, 14,152 inhabitants.

From: 'Gloucester - Godstone', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 301-312. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50983 Date accessed: 03 April 2013.

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