Parish records on Ancestry (General)

by MPGriffiths , Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 12:21 (3567 days ago) @ JaneyH

Now having access to Gloucestershire records on Ancestry - I can only say thank you to all the Forest of Dean Transcribers who have given us easy access to these in the past/present - and am now using them for cross-referencing etc. Lots of 'howlers' on Ancestry transcriptions though - for example - 1708 is 1780 - and difficult to search accurately without going through the individual parish pages, unlike the records on this website.

The actual records are absolutely beautiful and easy to read - other records are moth-eaten and extremely hard to read and well chewed edges where records have been lost.

From the Awre Baptisms in 1750 - if the child was a girl - a little smiley face has been written with lines stuck out (like hair) to show it was a girl - and if a boy the sign for male (a circle with an arrow at 1 o'clock).

There is also the 'AGM Report' written down as well at the end of 1750 and other years…..

N.B. Jack MORSE Vicar
Edmund ASHETON - Assistant at Blakeney
Samuel EVANS and Jeremiah HARRIS - Church Wardens

N.B This year at the request of the Vicar, Jonathan BLACKWELL Esq of Poulton's Court gave Five Guineas which were laid out in making the Four Steps in the Chancel going up to the Comunion Table. He had before given Ten Guineas towards the Enlargement of the Chap. at Blakeney

N.B The Railes upon the said steps were new done by the church-wardens.

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Other N.B's at the end of the year e.g.

1738

Richard BLANCH was the Church Warden

N.B. This year Mr Richard BLANCH erected Seat or Pew in the North Isle of the Church for the use of himself and family and the future Inhabitants of both his Houses and desired that this Remembrance might be made of it.

N.B. The Names of the Two Houses now pofsefsed by Mr Richard BLANCH are Pinner's Place and Gibb's Hall.

Jack MORSE Vic

Lots more to read, fascinating!