To help you with your research, here are some of the avenues you can explore.
Have a look at these websites, to find what they offer:
Gloucestershire Archives have an online catalogue that you can search, then order documents
www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives/online-catalogue/
National archives for wills 1384 -1858 and other online collections
Try:
- www.familysearch.org – free searches for people
- www.ancestry.co.uk – subscribe or use it for free in a Gloucestershire library
- www.findmypast.com – subscribe or use it for free in a Gloucestershire library
- www.myheritage.com – free family tree (up to 250 people) subscribe for more
- www.genesreunited.co.uk – some free information
- www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ – local and national newspapers from 1700
For:
- Birth/Baptism, Marriage, Death/Burials
- Census: 1841 every 10 years to 1911
- 1939 register – names. birth dates, occupations
- Military records
- Immigration, Emigration
- Newspaper archives – births, deaths, obituaries, description of property sales/ to let
- Make a family tree, and see other family trees
- Wills 1541 to 1858 from Gloucester Diocesan Registry are on Ancestry
You may also find
- Wills and probate
- Obituaries
- Electoral register
- Electoral rolls
- Rent rolls
- Poor rates
- Land tax
- Hearth tax – 1670s
- Phone books
- Church records
Other
- Tombstone inscriptions
- School records
- Parish magazines
- Estate/manor records
- Photographs
- Local history books and local autobiographies
- Anecdotal evidence
- Period features in a building
- Property title deeds
- Sales particulars
- Planning applications
Trade directories – Stroud trade directories 1820 to 1963 are here: www.johnhearfield.com/Dir/Dir_top.htm
Old maps of Gloucestershire
- Know your place www.kypwest.org.uk/
- National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/
1. and 2. have various dates of maps and ways of comparing old and current maps
- 1909 Lloyd George Survey of Land Values: Gloucestershire – has owners and occupiers www.glos1909survey.org.uk/
- www.oldmapsonline.org/
- www.old-maps.co.uk/#/
- Aerial photos Britain From Above