Place:Maugersbury, Gloucestershire, England

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Maugersbury is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. Situated less than a mile southeast of the market town of Stow on the Wold and approximately 18 miles (29 km) east of its post town, Cheltenham, Maugersbury lies within the Cotswolds Hills and in the Cotswold District. At the 2001 United Kingdom census, the parish had a population of 149. (2011 population not obtained.)

Maugersbury became a civil parish in its own right in 1896. Prior to that date civil and parish records will be found under Stow on the Wold.

Registration Districts

Stow on the Wold Registration District (1837 - 1937)
North Cotswold Registration District (1937 - 2006)
Gloucestershire Registration District (2006 - )

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:

• Stow-on-the-Wold in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6/Slaughter hundred in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online has many references to Maugersbury
• 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