Place:Gloucester St. Catherine, Gloucestershire, England

Gloucester St. Catherine was an early chapelry which became an ecclesiastical parish within the City of Gloucester. It was a civil parish between 1866 and 1896.

Up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries (between 1536 and 1541), the church of St. Catherine was known as St. Oswald's. (Source:Victoria County History of Gloucestershire)

The parish of Longford St. Catherine was ecclesiastically linked to Gloucester St. Catherine. In 1885 St. Catherine underwent a number of alterations in its borders with neighbouring parishes. These are outlined in A Vision of Britain through Time. The parish was located to the north and east of Gloucester Cathedral.

Registration Districts

• Gloucester Registration District (1837 - 1896)

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.