Ruardean Congregational Chapel Project Completed
Thanks to May Brace and her team of helpers the Ruardean Congregational Chapel Memorial Inscriptions are now completed. All of the surviving gravestones in the yard have been photographed and transcribed where possible.
A new section on the Website has been created where you can view the photos of the gravestones and the transcripts. Additionally we've added some recent photos of the inside and outside of the Chapel.
Ruardean Congregational Chapel
Bigland Transcripts
Ralph Bigland started his work about 1750, and worked for some 30 years transcribing the gravestones of many Gloucestershire church yards, and then produced papers describing each place in detail which were compiled into two volumes titled Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester.
Graham Davison has kindly transcibed the following Graveyards from the Bigland volumes:
Deerhurst
Dymock
Ruardean
Some time ago Gordon Williams sent us the Hewelsfield pages from the book which were then re-typed by Helen McDonald.
All of these transcripts are now available on the Bigland Transcripts page.
For some time now David Drinkwater has been compiling the Index of the Wills
The information in this database has been extracted from the annual Will books held at Gloucestershire Archives. These Will books contain handwritten copies [typed from 1923] of wills granted probate at Gloucester between 1858 and 1941. There are approximately 40,000 entries for the whole county from which about 7,000 with Forest of Dean connections which David has been indexing.
Glenn & Lynne Robertson are now assisting us with this project and they are extracting the names of other people that appear in the Wills.
Having the names of these other people in the database of the Wills on Web site is of great value to the researcher as you will know.
It will of course take some time for Glenn & Lynne to compile all the names of these other people. Some of the names have already been added to the database and progressively more names will be added.
You can now search the database for the name of the Testator or by Beneficiary/Witness.
Forest of Dean Wills Index
Kelly's Directory 1879 of the Forest of Dean & Surrounding Areas
These directories give a full description and contain a wealth of information about a village, all the farmers, the tradesmen, important persons such as the Lord of the Manor, vicars, school teachers, post office staff, pub landlord and more.
Many thanks to May Brace who has kindly transcribed these directories and made them available.
Kellys Directory 1879
We are now getting near to the completion of this project which commenced in 2006. Only a few years of some parishes need completing.
Some of the Parish Records have or are being compared with the Bishops Transcripts and updated with any additional information which was not in the Parish Registers.
New Additions, June 2010
An up-to-date list of transcribed records consists of all the parish records which have been transcribed and what records are currently in progress of being transcribed.
The number of transcribed Inquest keeps on growing with another four years of records have been added. Maybe one of your relations are amongst them.
August 1916 - August 1920
The Forest of Dean Inquest database is an abstract of minute books that have been transcribed from the original records which are held at Gloucestershire Archives.
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New Additions
Check out the Photo Gallery where you can view a huge collection of old photographs of people and places of the Forest of Dean.
New Additions
A number of interesting Documents and Articles including:
Rev John Horlick Ruardean Biography
Burning Fatality Lydbrook 1915
Sudden Death of Pheobe Ann Ashworth (nee Clark)
George Hubert Cook Killed by a Calf 1939
Knights Hill Chapel Schoolroom Building Agreement
- eBooks
- Miscellaneous Documents
- Newspaper Clippings
- Stories and Articless
- Wills & Adoms
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