Place:Gloucester St. Owen, Gloucestershire, England

Gloucester St. Owen was an ancient parish within the City of Gloucester and also a civil parish from 1866 until 1896. Gloucester St. Owen had historical associations with Gloucester St. Mary de Crypt as an ecclesiastical parish, but not as a civil parish. "Gloucester St Mary de Crypt with All Saints and St Owen is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Gloucestershire, created in 1643 from Gloucester St Mary de Crypt Ancient Parish and Gloucester St Owen Ancient Parish" (from the FamilySearch Wiki). It served an area to the south of the cathedral beyond the parish of Gloucester St. Nicholas.

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.