Place:Gloucester St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucestershire, England

Gloucester St. Mary de Crypt was an ancient parish within the City of Gloucester and a civil parish from 1866 until 1896. Its full formal name was "the church of St. Mary de Crypt with All Saints and St. Owen", indicating the other churches with which it had ecclesiastical links. Parish registers began in 1653 for St. Mary de Crypt, but bishops transcripts date back to 1570. It is located to the south of Gloucester Cathedral beyond the parish of St. Nicholas.

It "early" absorbed the parish of Gloucester St. Audonei. (Source:A Vision of Britain through Time which provided no further details.) Gloucester All Saints has also been redirected here.

Research Tips

• Gloucestershire Archives in Gloucester is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for this part of Gloucestershire are stored.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

• A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4, the City of Gloucester in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online
• GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
• A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Respect the copyright on this material.
• The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
• A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
• England and Wales Jurisdictions 1851 provides a map illustrating the locations of the various Gloucester parishes. Enter "Gloucester" in the search box at the top left, then select the parish required from the list below the search box.