Place:Wotton Vill, Gloucestershire, England

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

"WOOTTON, a hamlet and a ville in St. Mary-de-Lode parish, Gloucestershire; adjacent to Gloucester city. Real property, £5,425. Population of the hamlet in 1851: 1,174; in 1861: 1,562,--of whom 578 were in the county lunatic asylum. Houses: 204. Population of the ville, in 1851: 56; in 1861: 91. Houses: 21."

Wotton Vill was considered a hamlet until 1885, but was also a civil parish from 1866 until 1885. It can be found on a map of Gloucestershire of 1900 as a separate place surrounded by Gloucester to the northeast of the city centre. It appears to have been made up of the lunatic asylum and, perhaps, houses for staff.

Registration Districts

• Gloucester Registration District (1894 - 1937) Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Wotton St. Mary Within.
• Gloucester Rural Registration District (1937 - 1951) Abolished 1.4.1951 to become part of the parish of Gloucester.

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:

• 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. Do 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
• Unfortunately, A History of the County of Gloucester in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online does not cover this part of the county
• Ancestry.co.uk has recently added Gloucestershire Burials, 1813-1988; Confirmations, 1834-1913; Baptisms, 1813-1913; Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813; and Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938. (entry dated 1 Aug 2015)
• 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.