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The Parish records are invaluable to the family historian as they contain lists of all the births, marriages and burials performed in a parish since 1538. While the Longhope records do not go back this far, as many have been lost or become illegible, it is still possible to go back as far as 1583 (not 1538), but information until about 1700 is patchy. We started a project in Autumn 2004 to transcribe all the parish records for Longhope, a process that is still ongoing today. Please use the search page if you would like to know anything from these records. Should the information you require be outside of the records transcribed so far, one of our volunteers is prepared to visit the Gloucester Records Office to do searches on your behalf to look up information in the records that we do not hold. The following years are not available for one reason or another:

If you are having trouble finding ancestors from Longhope please contact us.

You may also want to visit the History section of this website as it contains lists of people living in the village and military surveys that may be of some use.

Surnames in the Early 1600s

Due to the large section of records that are missing because of the Civil War, it may not be possible to trace your family tree all the way back to 1583 without consulting other documents. There is however a period from 1599-1625 where records have survived. A list of surnames in the village from this period is given below.

• Adamson / Alan
• Baker / Bird / Bond / Bowdley / Bowkett / Bowry / Browne
• Dawe/Dawes / Dobbs
• Ewent
• Fowle
• Gardiner
• Hannis / Hayward / Hodges / Hooper / Hughes
• Key
• Lodge
• Marshall / Martin / Mongey / Morgan
• Nurse
• Jones
• Palmer / Parry / Phillips
• Read / Robyns
• Scriven
• Trigg
• Vaughan
• Weale / Wintle / Worrel

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