Place:Gloucester St. John the Baptist, Gloucestershire, England

Gloucester St. John the Baptist was an ancient parish within the City of Gloucester and a civil parish from 1866 until 1896. It covered an area well to the east of Gloucester Cathedral.

Ecclesiastically, St. John was included in 1931 in the new united benefice of St. Michael with St. John the Baptist, and in 1952 in that of St. Mary de Crypt with St. John the Baptist. St. John's church, which was shared with Methodists from 1972 and renamed St. John Northgate, and became a chapel of ease in 1975, when its parish was united with that of St. Mary de Crypt church. It was declared redundant and vested in the Gloucester Diocesan Trust in 1978. The Methodists, who then took a long lease of the building, made a new sharing agreement with the Anglicans. (Source:Victoria County History of Gloucestershire)

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.