Pages: [1]

Author Topic: Forest of Dean  (Read 1005 times)

Offline Geoff

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 864
  • TV, great add for Radio
    • View Profile
Forest of Dean
« on: Sunday 22 October 17 06:34 BST (UK) »
Could SKS tell me this please.

I came across an entry on a website where someone had entered a baptism for a person of interest to me. The record I have tells me this chap was baptised in Abinghall, GLS, but this site had the same details, but instead of at Abinghall it had Forest of Dean, GLS.

My question is this, With Abinghall being the parish, is the Forest of Dean not only a forest, but the name of the districts Registry Office as well ? Or is this entry naming the Forest of Dean just someone's wishful thinking ?

Kindest Regards
Geoff
** Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk **
Martlock, Pilton, Doubting & Frome:
MASTERS, PORCH, BOULTON, HACKETT,
Combe Hay, HINTON, WEEKS,
Perthshire: CRICHTON, TAYLOR, MOON, IRONS, KIDD
Durham, FENWICK, PUNSHON, EDDY, HENRY aka LAVERICK
Northumberland, BUCHANAN, HODGSON, HALL,
Lincoln: MASKEY,BIRD,FISHER,HARLEY,
Cambridgeshire, CROSS, FOREMAN, FREEMAN, ONG,
FEAST, MOXON
Gloucestershire, HILL, COX, NEWELL
Sussex, CHAPMAN, NEVE, DOWNER
Surrey, NEWELL, WEBB,

Offline KGarrad

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 26,084
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Forest of Dean
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 22 October 17 07:27 BST (UK) »
the Forest of Dean was a Registration District, from 1937 until 2006.
The name today refers to a District Council.

The best place for information is the Forest of Dean Family History Society:
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/joomla/
You need to register to see the Parish Records, but it's free.
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/joomla/index.php/the-forest-of-dean/about-the-forest

If born within the hundred of St Briavels, an ancient administrative area covering most of what is now considered the Forest of Dean, one is classed as a true Forester. The classification bestows a unique right for (traditionally) males over the age of 21 who have worked in a mine for a year and a day — they can register to be a freeminer. The ancient rights were put on the statute books in the Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838, the only public act to affect private individuals. Residents of the hundred over 18 can graze sheep in the Forest in accordance with an agreement between the Forestry Commission and the Commoners Association.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

Offline StintonLomas

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 458
  • I'm a Cousin - are you?
    • View Profile
Re: Forest of Dean
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 22 October 17 23:28 BST (UK) »
Malmesbury- Bishop.
Gloucestershire-Bishop,Hicks,Higgs,Hill,Hooper,Hopkins,Pitcher,Robertson,Stinton,Terret,Woodruff.
Worcestershire-Stinton. 
Devon- Borrough or Burrow.
Pages: [1]