We often receive requests from people wanting to track down distant relatives or to trace their family tree. If you are one of these people then these pages are for you. Alternatively, if you are not one of these people you may like to browse these pages and discover some exciting facts about Longhope's past. Please click a link to explore further.

Census data for Longhope. Currently, only the 1851 and 1881 censuses are available in full and the 1861 census is nearly complete but we haven't started work on the 1871 census yet.

Parish Records contain a wealth of information for family historians.

Gravestone inscriptions from All Saints' Church can often provide clues as to who was related to who. This is a list of all readable inscriptions on headstones and monuments in the churchyard and inside the church of All Saints.

Gravestone inscriptions from the Zion Baptist Chapel on Hopes Hill.

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Further Information and Notes

We currently have more information than we can put on the website at present. Most of it is contained on many bits of paper and includes family trees of families that have been in the village since the 1600s. In particular, if your surname is Coleman, then it is highly likely that you are related to John (c. abt. 1650, d. 1732) and Elizabeth (d. 1726) Coleman who were alive in the village in 1680.

The Probyn family, many of whom are buried beneath the chancel of All Saints' Church and have various commemorative plaques and stones, are descended from Edward III.

Many books that describe how to trace your family tree [1-2] suggest that illegitimate children was rare. Rare is obviously a relative term and can vary from parish to parish or from county to county. In the twenty-five years between 1670 and 1695 no less than ten illegitimate children, out of a total population of about 250 [3], were baptised at All Saints.

Related Information

• GENUKI
• GlosGen - Gloucestershire Genealogy

References

1. Kathy Chater, "How to Trace your Family Tree", Hermes House, 2005.
2. FH_2
3. The Longhope Village Website, Population of Longhope.

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