Place:Ham and Stone, Gloucestershire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

source: Family History Library Catalog

Ham and Stone is a civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. Ham was a tything and Stone was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Berkeley. The two settlements were formed into a single civil parish in 1866.

Ham

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Ham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"HAM, a tything in Berkeley parish, Gloucester; near Berkeley. Real property: £238 [sic]. Population: 577. Houses: 110."

Stone

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Stone from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"STONE, a chapelry in Berkeley parish, Gloucester; 4 miles SW by S of Berkeley-Road {railway] station. It has a post-office under Berkeley. Real property: £2,192. Population: 277. Houses: 62. The manor belongs to Lord Fitzhardinge. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £80. Patron: the Vicar of Berkeley. The church is decorated English, and was recently repaired. Charities, £30."

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Stone is a small village in the parish of Ham and Stone in Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the A38 road, just south-west of its crossing of the Little Avon River, roughly halfway between Bristol and Gloucester. It is adjacent to the boundary with South Gloucestershire. The part of the community just northeast of the river is called Woodford. To the north lies the village of Newport. (Woodford and Newport have been redirected to the neighbouring parish of Alkington in which they are located.)

Research Tips

• These notes re sources from GENUKI may be of interest:

• Original source material relating to Stone, and other parishes in Diocese of Gloucester may be found at the premises of Gloucestershire Archives.
• Scribes Alcove is a site to enable searches of baptism, marriage and burial indexes from six Gloucestershire parishes: Berkeley, Thornbury, Oldbury-upon-Severn, Hill, Stone & Rockhampton.
• The period covered for All Saints Church parish records is 1700-1883C (except 1703 & 1704); 1700-1900M; 1700-1890B.
• Abstracts from Berkeley, Stone & Hill Wills 1541 - 1571, transcribed by Leslie Mahler as part of an ongoing project.