Histories of Stoke Gifford
This is a reduced version of the History of Stoke Gifford CD available from Stoke Gifford Parish Council.
In order to fit into my available webspace I have reduced the amount of information available.
Hence the "more More information available on request and on the CD Version " notes.
If you have any information, memories, photos etc, that you would like to share please email me or contact the Parish Clerk at 01454 865202
This aim of this history is to bring together as much as possible of the known history of Stoke Gifford that is scattered around various institutions and to capture memories and memorabilia of the local residents. Much of the information is copyright and the owners have allowed the information to be reproduced here only. Obviously this is an ongoing task and anyone wishing to help would be very welcome.
Local History books of interest and available from Bradley Stoke Library are:
Landscape of the Past
by Sharon Ubank
Contact Sharon on 01454 614987
A Ring of Rooks by
Sharon Ubank.
Stories from Little Stoke Farm
Contact Sharon
01454 614987
Filton Patchway and Stoke Gifford in Pictures,
by Janet and Derek Fisher
Contact Bygones
0117 942 3177
The Farmer And The Goose With The Golden Eye
A history of Little Stoke Farm by Martin Davis
Copies of the original files used in this compilation in the Bristol Records Office.
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The word Giffarde meant one with round cheeks and double chin in Norman times. In Saxon, Stoche meant "property of, or dependent farmstead", and at the time of Domesday, the Manor was held by Osbern Giffard, a supporter of William the Conqueror.
Hence we have Stoche Giffarde.
STOKE-GIFFORD, Gloucestershire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
A parish in the upper division of Henbury hundred, county Gloucester, 5 miles
N.E. of Bristol, its post town, and 3½ N.W. of Mangotsfield railway station. The
village, which is small, and chiefly agricultural, is situated on the road from
Bristol to Gloucester. The soil is of a clayey nature, with a subsoil of brown
limestone. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol,
value £60. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient structure with a
tower and three bells. The parochial charities produce about £37 per annum.
There is a village school for both sexes. The Duke of Beaufort is lord of the
manor and owner of the soil.
This material is Copyright Adrian Kerton and the holders of any copyrighted material included.
Some names around the parish from 1345, from notes by Mike Stanbrook
| Hammeysyate | Wodemede | Blak forlong | Stoney forlong |
| Lockesleyes forlong | Russmedford | Walshshawesmede | Inwode |
| Lockesleyesquarter | Pylquarter | Walforlong |
STOKE GIFFORD HISTORY IN TIME.
References taken from the National Archives, British History OnLine and other
web sources.
To convert references to Map co-ordinates
http://gps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/etrs89geo_natgrid.asp
A good overview of the development of Stoke Gifford is this, from the
excavations at Bradley Stoke termed Matford., once part of Stoke Gifford Parish.
The chronological sequence of activity or occupation at the site was as follows:
Periods I-II: Late Mesolithic /Early Megalithic to Bronze Age
Period III: Iron Age, possibly elusively late Iron Age, 3rd century BC - 1 st
century AD.
Period IV: Romano-British 1st- 2nd/3rd centuries AD
Period Va: Medieval; Saxo-Norman AD 1000 - 1120
Period Vb: Medieval 12th - mid- 13th centuries, including three possible
structural phases, (?one in Vc):
Phase I - ?House C with Parallel Gullies
?Phase II - ?Bake House , kitchen Addition F to C, possibly with rectilinear
Ditch and Gully systems
Period Vc: Medieval; rid 13th - mid- 14th century - including 2 activity ,
structural phases:
Phase 1 - House A with ?Enclosure Ditch and Ancillary Building B.
Blocking of ?House C door (Le. phase III) ?and change of use of building.
Phase 1a-Pennant Floor of House A
Phase Ib - Pitched Lias Floor of House A
Phase 2. - Masonry Addition D to House A
Phase 2b - Masonry Addition D 1. Hen. A
Phase 2C – Re-cut of Structure D Terrace Cut
Period VI: Post-medieval and Modern - minor agricultural features
SMR Number Name 11006 Evaluation Harry Stoke Road Harry Stoke, Stoke Gifford
Description: An evaluation was carried out on this site in 1996 evidence for
scattered prehistoric settlement was recovered. {1}
Site Type Grid Reference SITE 362401 178901
Bronze Age (3300–1200 BC)
Found classic flint side scrapper in Little Stoke Allotments.
Name: Bronze Age Settlement Savages Wood Bradley Stoke
SGHER Number: 11106
Type of record: Monument
Grid Reference: ST 6209 8195
Map Sheet: ST68SW
Parish: Bradley Stoke, S Gloucestershire
Monument Types
* SETTLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Full Description:
A series of evaluations (SGSMR 7424;7442;10574; 14103) has revealed traces of an
extensive Bronze Age Settlement in this area. {1} Sources and further reading
Unpublished document: Evans D R. 1997. Pers Comm (Evans D R 1997).
1200 BC Iron Age
At the former Stoke Park Hospital (Fig.1), possible Iron Age field boundaries,
kilns
and a hearth were uncovered during an archaeological evaluation (Wessex
Archaeology
1999)
43 AD- 410 AD- Roman
Ditches containing Roman pottery and the stone foundations of a rectangular
structure were uncovered during excavation in advance of quarrying in the
vicinity of Stoke
House (Jancar 1981), and a small quantity of Roman pottery was retrieved during
evaluation
prior to the construction of the Abbey Wood complex (RPS Clouston 1992).
43 - 410 AD Roman
SMR Number Name 1331 Roman Settlement Hatchet Lane Stoke Gifford
Description:
This site was excavated by Dr A. J. Parker as a Univ. of Bristol training dig in
1977.Parker refer to a hoard of 3000 coins found in 1880 (SGSMR11009). The
latest finds from the excavation are of a similar date to the coins,C4.Period of
occupation provisionally dated to mid C4. {1} Area re-developed by Bovis Homes
Development and a small scale excavation in 1977 and 1978 revealed part of a
Romano-British Settlement. Several structures, iron slag and bronze scrap found.
Two inhumations were found cut into Roman structures {2} Evidence of Roman
occupation at Stoke Gifford has been found in the fields on the north western
side of the village between Hatchet Lane and the railway, and probably extending
into the fields on the east side of Hatchet Lane, extending as far northwards as
Gipsy Patch Lane and Mead Lane
410 – 1000 -Post Roman
Excavations in 2005 at Hewlett Packard, Filton, revealed the truncated remains
of 51 inhumation burials within an isolated post-Roman cemetery. All of the
burials were extended and east-west aligned, and were arranged in rows and
groups. The tradition of east/west-aligned graves is a common late Roman and
post-Roman practice, and these were not necessarily Christian. The largest group
comprised 24 burials clustered around a central grave that contained an unusual
skeleton and evidence for a distinctive burial rite. Overall there were slightly
more females than males (where sex could be determined) and ten children.
MEDIEVAL
Strip lynchets preserved as earthworks within Stoke Park testify to
medieval agriculture (Russell 1989
Medieval
SMR Number Name 5203 Bee Boles Harry Stoke, Stoke Gifford
Description: The presence of medieval apiculture, possibly in the form of bee
boles is indicated by the name Hunipyn (honey pens) in a thirteenth century
document {2} connecting it with land held in Fromshawe. A field called Honey is
shown on a 1725 map {3} and the same field is called Honey Pens in 1843. {4} {1}
Site Type Grid Reference BEE BOLE 362001 178675
872
SMR Number Name 1346 Artefact Scatter Bristol and South Wales Railway Stoke
Gifford
In the museum of the Somerset Archaeol Soc is an exhibit of "coins, lance-head,
& a piece of iron ore found at Stoke Gifford by the Rev E. J. Everard" {1} The
objects from Stoke Gifford were located in the Somerset County Museum, they
consist of the following: an Anglo Saxon scramasax (sword) and iron bell said to
have been found with the coins of Burgred of Mercia, Aethelred & Alfred.
Unfortunately no details of the circumstances of the find were recorded. The
date of the reporting of the find fits well with the date of the construction of
the Bristol and South Wales 1858-63 and it is suggested that the Saxon material
may have been recovered at this time. The site has been mapped on a section of
the said railway but is only intended as a guide. {2}
1086
Place name: Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Folio: 168v Great Domesday Book
Domesday place name: Stoche People mentioned: Aelfhere; Alric; Alweald; Alweard;
Alwine; Ansketil; Bolli; Brother of Elaf; Burgess of Gloucester; Cola; Drogo
fitzPons; Dunna; Duns; knight of Durand of Gloucester, the sheriff; Eadwig;
Geoffrey Orlateile; Gilbert fitzTurold; knights of Gilbert fitzTurold; Godric
brother of Eadric; Grim; Leofwine; Men of Knights of Gilbert fitzTurold; Osbern
Giffard; Osbern fitzRichard; Osweard; Oswulf; Richard the legate; Robert
d'Oilly; Roger d'Ivry; Roger d'Oilly; Siward; Thorsten; Walter; Walter fitzPons;
Wulfweard Date
1086
E 31/2/1 D Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire 168v Great Domesday Book Stoche
Aelfhere Alric Alweald Alweard Alwine Ansketil Bolli Brother of Elaf Burgess of
Gloucester Cola Drogo fitzPons Dunna Duns knight of Durand of Gloucester, the
sheriff Eadwig Geoffrey Orlateile Date: 1086.
1145
[Gloucester] Winterbourne (Possessions late of John Giffard): [Gloucester]
Stoke-Gifford (Possessions late of John Giffard):
1276
Stanley Farm to the west in 1276 (in the Rotuli Hundredorum)
SMR Number Name 5202 Settlement Stanley Farm Stoke Gifford
Description: No information after 1398 but a farm remains on the site and the
name continues to the present day. Mentioned in 1276 in the Rotuli Hundredorum
{2} In the Lay Subsidy Roll in 1327. {3} A quit claim dated 1398 refers to
Richard Stanley, alias Richard Snake of Stanley and there is a charter of
foeffment in the same year {4}
Site Type Grid Reference SETTLEMENT 360943 177974
1294
Includes extract of endowment of vicarage of Stoke Gifford from the Bishop of
Worcester's register (1294), and 19th cent. translation; extract from same of
the composition of tithes between the rector of Winterbourne and the Abbot of
St. Augustine, Bristol (1280); copy [much of the doc. illegible] of the Abbot of
Tewkesbury's grant relating to a fee from the inhabitants of Stapleton, payable
to St. James's church, Bristol, for right of burial in Stapleton chapel (1438)
1294
D2700/QP11/1/1 1841-1846 1 bdl Contents: translation of the endowment of the
vicarage (1294) [ see also LEGAL];
Description:
Petitioners: Ellis de Filton.
Name(s): de Filton, Ellis
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Filton, who holds the manor of Stoke Harry in the franchise
of the barton of Bristol of Umfraville, requests remedy because the King's
ministers came and wished to seize the franchise and distrain the tenants of
Stoke Harry for amercements for breach of assize when the barton should only be
amerced at the King's court of the manor of Harry Stoke.
Nature of endorsement: The King's bailiffs should be ordered to allow Filton to
have the view or leet of his tenants and assizes of bread and ale as he and his
ancestors are accustomed.
Places mentioned: Stoke Harry (Harry Stoke), [Gloucestershire]; barton of
Bristol (Barton Regis), [Gloucestershire]; Bristol.
People mentioned: Henry de Oumfrevill (Umfraville).
Date derivation: Dated on the guard to c. 1330, with reference to Rudder's
History of Gloucestershire, p.699, which states that Filton held Harry Stoke in
4 Edward III (no reference given).
Date 1330
Catalogue reference SC 8/263/13144links to the Catalogue
Dept Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type,
and formerly entitled Special Collections
Series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
Piece 13100-13149. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available
at item level.
1300?
South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 1335 St Michael’s Church Stoke Gifford
Description: Anglican Parish church. C14, altered mid C18, restored 1894-7 by E.
H. Lingen Barker.
1309
27 April 1309 Adam de Cailly, knight, and John de Cailly his brother. Sun. after
St. Mark, 2 Edw. II Adam informs John that, whereas he granted to John a
messuage and 2 carucates of land in Glos. called la Walles within the manor of
Giffardesstoke for life, he has now enfeoffed Lady Margaret, widow of Sir John
Giffard of Brymesfeld, and John Giffard, Sir John's son and heir, and John de
Cailly must now do them fealty. At: 'Grauntebrugg'.
1309
28 April 1309 John de Cailly; and Lady Margaret, widow of Sir John..., and John
Gyffard, son and heir of Sir John Gyffard. Mon. after St. Mark, 2 Edw. II John
de Cailly has... granted and remitted to Margaret and John... 2 carucates of
land called la Walles in the manor of Gyffardestoke in the county of... which he
holds by demise of... Sir Adam... viz. for a quarter of one knight's fee.
Witnesses: Sir John de Wylington, John de Akton, Richard de..., Elias de Fylton,
William de Doudeswelle, William de Brokworth, Robert de Prestle ... At:
'Cauntebrugg'. [Please quote GC1695 at Berkeley Castle Muniments when requesting
this file]
1314
Milicent, daughter of Maurice (III) Lord Berkeley (d. 1326) and sister of Thomas
(III) Lord Berkeley (d. 1361) and of Maurice de Berkeley of Stoke Gifford (d.
1347), was married about 1314 to John Mautravers the younger (d. 1364).
1321
John Mautravers the younger (d. 1364). John's career was a spectacular one. [GEC
viii. 580-6.] He took part with the Berkeleys in the Despenser war of 1321-2 and
forfeited his lands in 1322 as a result, fleeing abroad. He returned with
Isabella and Mortimer in 1326 and quickly became a major supporter of the new
regime, being appointed one of the keepers of Edward II at Berkeley Castle with
his brother-in-law Thomas Lord Berkeley. In 1329, for these and other services,
he was granted the inheritance which the last Giffard of Brimpsfield had
forfeited in 1322, and was summoned to parliament in 1330. He then became
involved in the earl of Kent's so-called conspiracy and had to flee abroad again
in the summer of 1330. In the following November Edward III staged his dramatic
coup at Nottingham Castle, and one of his first independent acts was to pursue
the matter of his father's death. As a result, Mautravers had to stay abroad for
the next twenty years.
1322
Petitioners: Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester. Name(s): Cobham, Thomas
Addressees: King and council. Occupation: Bishop of Worcester Nature of request:
Thomas, Bishop of Worcester states that John Giffard, who held the manor of
Stoke Gifford of him as of the right of his church, and several other tenants
who held of him, have forfeited their lands and tenements in war against the
King, so that these lands and tenements are now in the King's hand. He asks that
the services and customs due to him from the said manor might be given to him,
so that he does not lose and that his church is not disinherited. Nature of
endorsement:
1322
WALLS, IN STOKE GIFFARD (GLOS.) forfeited by the last Giffard lord in 1322,
1322
SC 8/150/7482 AP King and council. Occupation: Bishop of Worcester Nature of
request: Thomas Cobham , Bishop of Worcester states that John Giffard, who held
the manor of Stoke Gifford of him as of the right of his church, and several
other tenants who held of him, have forfeited their lands and tenements in war
against the King, so that these lands and tenements are now in the King's hand.
He asks that the services and customs due to him from the said manor might be
given to him, so that he does not lose and that his church is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement: Date derivation: CFR 1319-27 p.97 is dated 18 February
1322, and CCR 1318-23 p.426 is dated 5 March 1322. If the manor was restored,
this petition would seem to date from around February 1322, but, if, as the
petition seems to suggest, the manor was held by John Giffard and not his
mother, it might be later, but before 1327.
1329
WALLS, IN STOKE GIFFARD (GLOS.) was granted first to John Mautravers in 1329
1329
WALLS, IN STOKE GIFFARD (GLOS.) John de Cailly was declared to be Giffard's heir
in 1329 for the purpose of allowing him to quitclaim to Mautravers.
1330
Online Document SC 8/263/13144
Description:
Petitioners: Ellis de Filton.
Name(s): de Filton, Ellis
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Filton, who holds the manor of Stoke Harry in the franchise
of the barton of Bristol of Umfraville, requests remedy because the King's
ministers came and wished to seize the franchise and distrain the tenants of
Stoke Harry for amercements for breach of assize when the barton should only be
amerced at the King's court of the manor of Harry Stoke.
Nature of endorsement: The King's bailiffs should be ordered to allow Filton to
have the view or leet of his tenants and assizes of bread and ale as he and his
ancestors are accustomed.
Places mentioned: Stoke Harry (Harry Stoke), [Gloucestershire]; barton of
Bristol (Barton Regis), [Gloucestershire]; Bristol.
People mentioned: Henry de Oumfrevill (Umfraville).
Date derivation: Dated on the guard to c. 1330, with reference to Rudder's
History of Gloucestershire, p.699, which states that Filton held Harry Stoke in
4 Edward III (no reference given). Date 1330
Catalogue reference SC 8/263/13144links to the Catalogue
Dept Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type,
and formerly entitled Special Collections
Series: Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
Piece 13100-13149. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available
at item level.
Image contains 1 item for the catalogue reference
1330?
SMR Number Name 1334 Shrunken Settlement Harry Stoke, Stoke Gifford
Description: The Ordnance survey noted and recorded a moat at Harry Stoke {1}
further survey and documentary research showed that the a series of enclosures
and other earthworks probably represented a manorial complex on both sides of
the road. On the western side of the road, is a site described in 1625 as `..one
messuage or tenement with appurtenances in Stoke Harris known as Kemis House
with one barton and garden to the same belonging, and. also one close of pasture
called Kemis hayes. by estimation five acres..' Kemis Hayes appears on a 1725
estate map, and in 1843, the site is a `house and garden,,' and 'the Stony
Ground..' {2}{3} Excavations by Bristol City Museum in 1986 revealed at lest one
early post Medieval building and a walled yard area against the road on its west
(SGSMR 12802) , and further work by A C Young for Avon County Council in 1987/8
revealed a complex of high status medieval buildings including a probable manor
house and two dovecots. (SGSMR11033). A further area of earthworks to the east
of the road is recorded as SGSMR 11034.
1332
Manor Stoke Gifford
Description:
Manor of Stoke "soon after the conquest this estate came to the possession of
the family of
Dispenser"..."& by marriage to Sir Richard Rodney"..."Sir John Rodney...built a
great part of the mansion, the ruins of which yet app-ear"..."The old family
seat stands mouldering near the church..."{1} Manor passed to Osbern Giffard at
the conquest & from there to the Berkleys. {2} Perhaps located at Court Farm.
{3}
1334
WALLS, IN STOKE GIFFARD (GLOS.) then to Maurice de Berkeley in 1334.
1347
Maurice de Berkeley of Stoke Gifford who had died, apparently at the siege of
Calais, in Feb. 1347, leaving a young family.] and his male issue, and the right
heirs of Thomas the father.
1351
WALLS, IN STOKE GIFFARD (GLOS.) The lands were restored to Mautravers in 1351
1363
For licences to alienate land. Matthew de Stawell to grant a messuage, mills,
land, and rent in Frampton Cotterell and Stoke Gifford to John Hydon, Joan Seynt
Owan, and the heirs of the said John, retaining land in Somerset and Wilts.
Glouc. Somers. Wilts
1364
WALLS, IN STOKE GIFFARD (GLOS.) then settled Walls, with Rockhampton and Stoke
Gifford, on his Berkeley nephew
1379
FILTIN (GLOS.) BCM/E/1/5 [n.d.]
These documents are held at Berkeley Castle Muniments
Administrative history:
Moieties of the manors of Filton and Harry Stoke were inherited by Margery,
first wife of Sir Thomas FitzNichol, and the FitzNichols leased the moieties in
1379-80 to Edmund Blount and his wife Margaret (for the lives of Thomas and
Margery) at 16 marks a year. [CCR 1419-22, 158-9; CIPM xv, no. 303.]
1380
Late 13th cent. By Margaret Giffard, widow of Dom. John Giffard Knt. to John de
Stok, son of Henry de Stok and Edith his wife, and William their son, of sixteen
acres of arable land in Stok' Henr [Stoke Harris in Stoke Gifford, Co. Glouc.],
to hold for their lives at a penny rent. Witn. Elyas de Filtone, John de
Alcleye, John de Brokenburwe. Temp. Edw. I.
1380?
SMR Number Name 3364 Medieval Deer Park Stoke Park Stoke Gifford
Description: In the reign of Richard II there was a complaint against Maurice
Berkeley for enclosing some common land within a park without a licence.{1}
Site Type Grid Reference DEER PARK 362000 177000
1398
SMR Number Name 5204 Medieval Deer Park Stoke Gifford Description:
In 1398 a commission was ordered to look into an insurrection 'at Stoke within
the lordship of Winterbourne and Framton' and that 'Maurice Berkele has without
licence from the King enclosed and made a park of a parcel of land therein which
divers lieges have had from time immemorial common pasture...' In 1464 reference
is made to 'the common watercourse at Whitelesyate under 'Le Parke Corner'. A
field close to the church is called Park Furmed on 1725 estate map and on the
1843 estate map The Park (No 8) and is described as pasture. It adjoins Court
Farm (No 7) The shape of the park cannot readily be defined as the railway
marshalling yard has covered a large part of it {1} {2} {3} {4} {5}
Site Type Grid Reference PARK 362400 179600
1398
SC 8/221/11045 on the Friday after the close of Easter 1398. [None] Bettesley
(Beachley), [Gloucestershire] Gloucestershire Iuffordstoke (Stoke Gifford),
[Gloucestershire] Dorset Somerset. Richard de Pantree [John] Croke of Beachley.
The 'insurrection' took place just Date: 1398.
1400?
SMR Number Name 2779 House Platform (1) Great Stoke Stoke Gifford
Description: House platforms and depressions in field, with ridge and furrow to
W. (for approximately 20 yds only).
Other similar earthworks were noted on opposite side of road (ST627801SGSMR
13102) in
playground {1}{2} In field earthworks set back from road. The original road was
wider, probably in form of street green. House platforms behind the bungalow.
The field being developed (1984) and BAARG members have found evidence of
medieval and later occupation. (SGSMR 13101) {3}
Site Type Grid Reference: HOUSE PLATFORM 362500 180070
1400
[No title] D3567/2/19 nd 1 bdle. Contents: Pedigrees of Guise family and of
Berkeleys of Stoke Gifford, with card index of Guise family 13th-18th cents.
Includes notes from various sources about inhabitants of Elmore
1402
D2700/MJ11/1/1 1402-1412 1 roll Contents: Court roll Including rental of land
leased to tenants during minority of Maurice Berkeley [110.1.15]
1409
[no title] BCM/E/1/5/3 [1409]; [1410]
These documents are held at Berkeley Castle Muniments
Contents:
Filton and Harry Stoke 9 Nov. 11 Hen. IV
Two courts 22 May 11 Hen. IV
[Please quote GCR182 at Berkeley Castle Muniments when requesting this file]
1414
D2700/MJ11/1/11 1414-1415 1 roll Contents: Reeve's accounts [110.1.4]
1421
no title] D2700/MJ11/1/12 1421-1448 10 rolls Contents: Reeve and rent
collector's accounts 1421-2; 1423-5 (reeve, rent collector and bailiff);
1425-31, 1434-5, 1443-4, 1447-8 [Ka 1/5a; 110.1.5-8,10-12]
1458
SMR Number Name 5209 Cemetery Stoke Bridge Little Stoke Lane Stoke Gifford
Description: Documentary references to a field described in 1458 as "a
particular pasture next to Stonebrugge" and called Burisplot and on an estate
map of 1725 called Burial Plot, may indicate the presence of a cemetery in this
area. {1}{2}{3}
Site Type Grid Reference CEMETERY 361810 180500
1466
Stoke-Gifford: [Gloucester] Description: of Officer: Bailiff and Keeper
1471
SC 8/344/E1296 AP Humphrey Forster, esq.; Sybil Forster, wife of Humphrey
Forster, and widow of Robert Poyntz, esquire. Forster; Forster Humphrey; Sybil
Prince. The Forsters show that they were for a long time seised of an estate in
fee in Stoke Gifford, otherwise called Date range: 1471 - 1483.
1485
BCM/A/5/1/6 [1485] Contents: Maurice Berkeley, esquire, of Thornbury, and
William Berkeley, knight, of Stoke Gifford. 28 Jan. 2 Ric. III An indenture made
between Maurice and William for the marriage of Maurice, son and heir apparent
of Maurice of Thornbury to marry Katherine, William's daughter, at the nativity
of St. John the Baptist [24 June], and that William shall pay to Maurice of
Thornbury 40 marks, and Maurice son of Maurice shall stay with William until his
full age. [Please quote SC645 at Berkeley Castle Muniments when requesting this
file]
1489
One messuage called Hyndysplace in Lawrence Weston, with lands, meadows, and
pastures belonging which 1. together with Hen. Polyn gent., Jn. Rome sen., Jn.
Horte, Thos. Harpar, Jn. Henwod, Rich. Rome, Wm. Haynys, Wm. Edwardes, Jn.
Stokes and Geo. Wellyngton now deceased had of the gift and feoffment of Wm.
Large of Stoke Gifford, Glouc. yeoman. Dated 5 May 4 Hen. VII [1489]1. appoint
as attorneys Thos. Horte and Jn. Rome
1504
D2700/SD/1/1 1504 Contents: Receipt for the fee farm rent of the rectory of
Stoke Gifford, paid by John Colmore, chaplain, to Thomas Colman, prior of Little
Malvern, Worcs. [110.1.29]
1527
PROB 11/22 Will of George Shepwarde Gentleman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Will of George Shepwarde Gentleman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1527.
1553
The Dower House was built in 1553 by Sir Richard Berkeley. Note there are many
references to the features in Stoke Park on the history site.
1533
Nicholas Poyntz, knight, grandson and heir of Robert Poyntz, knight, grandson
and heir of John Cookes. v. John Kemys gentleman, grandson and heir of Roger
Kemys.: Two-thirds of the manor of Oldbury and messuages, land and rent there
and in Stanley, Stoke Harris, Stoke Gifford, Framshewe (i.e. Frenchay ?) in
Winterbourne, Lawford's Gate [and] Barton [Regis].: Gloucester.
1535
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77455
c. 1535
42. John Barkeley, s. and h. of Richard Barkeley, of Stoke Gyfford, Glouc.,
deceased. Special livery to the said John and to Sir Humphrey Conyngesby,
justice of the King's Bench, Sir William Denys, Sir John Welshe, Sir Edward
Wadham, Christopher Codryngton, Thomas Lucas, Edmund Wykys, and William
Conyngesby, as trustees to the use of the said John, on all the possessions of
the said Richard, the reversions of the manors of Stoke Gyfford and Little
Stoke, held by Elizabeth, widow of the said Richard, in usu; and of a third part
of the manors of Ewley Barwyke and Kyngys Norton, Glouc., held by the said
Elizabethin dowry, &c. Westm., 19 March 22 Hen. VIII. Del. Westm., 24March.—P.S.
Pat. p. 2, m. 27.
1540
Royal writ to the sheriff of Gloucester 44M69/C/790 1554,1540 Contents: Ordering
him to distrain Maurice Berkeley esq. of Stoke Gifford, Glos., to the extent of
40s which he owes as fine for a case of trespass and contempt and 66s 8d for a
case of trespass and contempt. The Sheriff is to bring the money or tallies from
Maurice to the Exchequer on the morrow of Michaelmas (30 Sep 1544) Dated at
Westminster 20 Jun 36 Henry [VIII] (1544)
1540
South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 10115 Settlement Cold Harbour Farm Stoke Gifford
Description: A group of farm buildings here, which were destroyed during
building in the 1980s possessed a name recorded in 1540. {1} It is not clear how
old the buildings were, but the name and siting may imply medieval settlement.
Most has probably been destroyed by recent construction, but elements of the
site may remain
Site Type Grid Reference SETTLEMENT 362420 178180
1560
SMR Number Name 9654 Settlement Little Stoke
Description: Little Stoke is recorded from at least 1560 {1}, but may be
medieval in origin. Little Stoke Farm and at least two other buildings were
recorded at this NGR in 1882 {2}. It had been built over by 1981.{3}
Archaeological deposits and structures may have survived development.
Site Type Grid Reference SETTLEMENT 361250 181430
1566
Manors of Stoke als Great Stoke, Stoke Gifford, Little Stoke and Harry Stoke;
capital messuage, manor and mansion house; Stoke park (120a.), Stapleton, where
the manor house now stands; the Old Park (160a.) in Stoke, Stapleton, Horfield
and Winterbourne; Walls Court Farm (200a.) in Stoke, Winterbourne and Filton;
the Sheeps Pasture and Lower Grounds (180a.)
1577
PROB 11/59 Will of William Gifforde Stoke under Hamden, Somerset . Will of
William Gifforde Stoke under Hamden, Somerset Date: 1577.
1580
Berkely Family Estates D2700/MJ11/1/9 1580 1 Contents: Estreats of fines,
heriots, pannage [K shelf 2/7]
1581
12148/2 1581 May 10 Contents: Assignment of mortgage and deed of further charge
from Geo. Moreton and mortgagees to Sir Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford and
Roger Revell, Redland, gent.: as No.1, with advowson of Filton church.
1581
PROB 11/63 Will of Richard Roe Stoke Gifford, Somerset . Will of Richard Roe
Stoke Gifford, Somerset Date: 1581.
1584
Bristol Record Office: Filton 12148
of it in 22 Eliz. It appears from Deed No.1. that Filton was sold after Mallet's
death to George Moreton, who on 1 October 1580 mortgaged the manors of Stoke
Harris and Filton and in 1584 conveyed them, together with the advowson of
Filton, to Roger Revell. Date range: 1580 - 1832.
Source: Access to Archives (A2A): not kept at The National Archives
1588
PROB 11/72 Will of John Peerse Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of John
Peerse Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1588.
1589
Crown Leases Record Summary Noke, William: The rectory of Stoke Gifford.
1592
William Botry, citizen and mercer of London. v. Robert Bassett and Anne, his
wife, executrix and late the wife of George Shipward of Stoke Gifford,
gentleman.: Debt of the said George for silks, viz. velvet, sateen and sarsenet,
bought of complainant.: London, Gloucester. Covering dates
1599
PROB 11/93 Will of John Lardge Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
John Lardge Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1599.
1599
SMR Number Name 1336 Pillow Mound Coldharbour Lane Stoke Gifford
Note - Pillow mounds are probably a late medieval development. They are low
stone mounds which were once covered with earth and used as artificial rabbit
warrens
Possible pillow mound.{1} Sited in a field adjoining Coldharbour Lane, to the
North of Stoke Park, now completely obliterated by landscaping for the
polytechnic.{2}. This mound was clearly visible on the 1946 APs {3} Grid
Reference 362150 177770
1602
Christopher Dorney of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, yeoman v William Evans of
Clement's Inn, Middlesex, gentleman, attorney in Common Pleas. Common law suit
against plaintiff, despite earlier agreement to compound for debt. Bill, answer.
Short title: Dorney v Evans Covering dates 1602
1608
PROB 11/111 Will of Frauncys Reeve Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
Frauncys Reeve Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1608.
1612
D2700/MJ11/1/10 1612-1670 1 file Contents: 'Presentments received from Mr
Archard' [Ka 1/5a]
1612
PROB 11/120 Will of Simon Hill Clerk Stoke Gifford, Somerset . Will of Simon
Hill Clerk Stoke Gifford, Somerset Date: 1612.
1615
D2700/QP11/1/1 1841-1846 1 bdl Contents: Agent's tithe commutation papers and
correspondence Includes abstract of title to tithes of Stoke and Stapleton
(1615-1758);
1622
Includes marriage settlement of Sir Maurice Berkeley and Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Edward Coke,
1622
Appointment of bailiff and receiver of rents (Richard Hawkesworth, Alveston,
gent)
1622
PROB 11/309 Will of Gyles Fry Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
Gyles Fry Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1662.
1626
Settlement before marriage of Sir Maurice Berkeley and Mary Tipping
1629
Online Document PROB 11/155
Will of Elizabeth Baylie or Baily Widow Stoke Harris, Gloucestershire . Will of
Elizabeth Baylie or Baily Widow Stoke Harris, Gloucestershire Date: 1629.
Source: Documents Online (images of documents from The National Archives)
1630
Baptism of Wm., son of Wm. Player, at Marshfield;
1630
Contents: Settlement on the marriage of Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford and
Elizabeth Symes of Frampton Cotterell, Glos. relating to chattels only; draft
deed relating to property at Stoke Gifford, Glos. a bond and three other papers
concerning Frampton Cotterel. Parties: Symes, Berkeley, Hodges, Chester.
1630
1630 baptism of Wm., son of Wm. Player, at Marshfield;
1631
PROB 11/160 Will of John Hall Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
John Hall Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1631.
1633
Declaration of the uses of a fine and recovery (1633)-1635; agreement that no
right of way from Winterbourne to Horfield exists through Walls Court Farm
without the consent of Sir Maurice Berkeley, 1630 (Sir Edw. Rodney; Rice Davis;
Edw. Cox; Berkeley family)
1634
PROB 11/166 Will of Ambrose Piels Stoke Gifford, Somerset . Will of Ambrose
Piels Stoke Gifford, Somerset Date: 1634.
1634
Will of Ambrose Piels of Stoke Gifford, Somerset Date 19 December 1634 Catalogue
reference PROB 11/166
1647
Includes pedigree of the Bayly family (1647)-1818;
1648
PROB 11/203 Will of John Chambers Husbandman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Will of John Chambers Husbandman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1648.
1650?
South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 2713 Greenfields Farmhouse North Road Stoke Gifford
Description: C17 Farmhouse {1}
Site Type Grid Reference FARMHOUSE 362515 179789
1650?
SMR Number Name 12273 Greenwood No 136 Rock Lane Stoke Gifford
Description: Cottage. C17, refaced C19. Roughcast, double Roman tile roof.
Former cross passage, two units. 2 storeys, 2 windows, single storey lean-to
extension at left; all windows 2-light C19 casements except at ground floor rear
where there is a 2light ovolo-moulded mullioned window; C20 glaze gable porch at
right; door in let extension. Interior: chamfered and stopped beams, segmental
headed timber door frame, bread oven in altered inglenook, winder staircase.
Site Type Grid Reference DWELLING 362768 180092
1650
D2700/QP5/7 Sir Maurice Berkeley v. Agnes Hedges, widow about ploughing up
meadow and pasture in the Manor of Harry Stoke which she holds by lease from
Richard Berkeley his father for her life (she is now 76) [110.1.15, 18(misc.),
21] 1650-1651
1651
Settlement Bond Richard Attwood, tailor John Collings of Stoke Gifford, yeoman,
for Richard Attwood and family. P/W/OP/17/8 1651 May 24
1651
PROB 11/218 Will of Oswald Jervis Taylor Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will
of Oswald Jervis Taylor Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1651.
1652
D2700/QP2/2 1652/3 Contents: Valuation of 'the yearly value of every man's land
in Stoke Gifford' by the Surveyors for the county for the contribution,
delivered to the Commissioners at Tetbury [K shelf 2/2(1); 504 M14 6]
1652
PROB 11/222 Will of William Strowd Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
William Strowd Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1652.
1653
Certified copy mortgage (1653) and release and marriage settlement (1656)
relating to Kemys house and various lands in Stoke Harris in Stoke Gifford
(Glos.). parties: Berkeley, Vickris, Symes.
1653
D2700/NR1/7 1653-1744 32 Contents: Farm, Little Stoke (44a., field names,
acreages)
1654
PROB 11/237 Will of Richard Williams Cook Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will
of Richard Williams Cook Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1654.
1655
D2700/NR1/3 1653-1747 Contents: Includes probate of Sir Maurice Berkeley's will,
1657
D2700/SD4/1 1657-1723 1 vol. Contents: Churchwardens' and overseers' accounts
(very few churchwardens' entries) Includes poor rate assessments and detailed
disbursements; appointment of churchwardens and overseers [110.2.45]
1657
no title] D2700/QP5/12 1657-1664 Contents: Richard Berkeley: miscellaneous legal
papers Includes dispute with his mother over her jointure lands in Stoke
Gifford; satisfaction of a judgment obtained by Lawford against Sir Maurice
Berkeley, 1657-9; bills for legal charges, c.1659-1664 [110.1.18(g); 110.1.21]
1657
PROB 11/267 Will of Richard Howell Husbandman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Will of Richard Howell Husbandman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1657.
1657
SMR Number Name 5542 Almshouse Stoke Gifford
Description: "There is ample evidence in this book (Account Book of Post Law
Relief 1657-1720) that there was an almshouse for poor elderly folk, maintained
by the church wardens (in Stoke Gifford). The quarterly rent was 5/- and was
payable to Richard Berkeley". {1}
Site Type Grid Reference ALMSHOUSE 362300 179700
1659
D2700/NR1/3 1653-1747 Contents: schedule of Sir Maurice Berkeley's debts and
legacies, 1659; conveyance by the surviving trustee of Sir Maurice Berkeley's
will to George Berkeley,
1659
no title] D2700/QP4/3/2 1659-1670
These documents are held at Gloucestershire Archives
Contents:
Miscellaneous estate papers
Including inventory of goods in house occupied by William Wickham, Harry Stoke,
1659
[504 M14 31(21)]
1660
D2700/QP8/2a/2 1648-1734 3 bdls Contents: Counterpart leases Includes lease to
Richard Berkeley by his mother, Dame Mary Berkeley, of her jointure in Stoke
House, Park and estate, reserving part of Stoke House for her own use, 1660 [Kc
1/3, 4, 12, 13; Kd 3/1b; Kd 3/2]
1661
D6623/5 (1661)-1879 Contents: Sherborne family of Westerleigh and Stoke Gifford,
1661
PROB 11/303 Will of Fraunces Berkeley Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
Fraunces Berkeley Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1661.
1664
no title] D2700/MJ11/1/6 1661/2 - 1664 1 vol. Contents: Copy of court book made
by Wm Archard, steward [Ka 1/5a]
1665
PROB 11/249 Will of Sir Maurice Berkeley Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will
of Sir Maurice Berkeley Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1655.
1666
PROB 11/321 Will of Thomas Tarr alias Herley Yeoman Stoke Gifford,
Gloucestershire Date: 1666.
1669
PROB 11/331 Will of Thomas Vidler Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will
of Thomas Vidler Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1669.
1669
PROB 11/329 Will of Agnes Fry Widow Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
Agnes Fry Widow Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1669.
1671
PROB 11/336 Will of John Collens Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
John Collens Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1671.
1672
Fee farm rent of £5 payable out of the Rectory of Stoke Gifford Includes
abstract of title 1672)-1820 (Earl of Ilchester; Duke of Beaufort)
1672
D2700/MJ11/4/1 1672 1 Contents: Appointment of bailiff and receiver of rents
(Richard Hawkesworth, Alveston, gent) [Ka 3/4]
1676
PROB 11/351 Will of Sarah Collins Widow Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of
Sarah Collins Widow Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1676.
1683
D5090/16 17th cent.-19th cent Contents: 'Sundry notes on Players, Sturges, etc.'
Include lists of dates of births, marriages and deaths; also anecdotes about
Jos. Sturges of Gaunts Earthcotta, Thornbury, and his family (16th cent.),
recorded 19th cent.; details of Wm. Player, born at Marshfield in 1660, who
became a Quaker minister and was imprisoned in Salisbury in 1683. In original
bundle Original bundle order
1683
D2700/ON2/4 1683-1898 Includes settlement before marriage of George
1683
D2700/ON2/4 Berkeley and the Hon. Jane Berkeley, 1683;
1683
D2700/ON2/4 schedules of title deeds (1683)-1861;
1685
schedule of title deeds (1685)-1818 (Bayly family; Wm Maule; Duke of Beaufort]
1685
D2700/ON2/4 probate of the will of George Berkeley, 1685;
1685
Information relating to document ref. no. D2700/NR1/8
a. in Harry Stoke Field als the Middle Field, Hambrook Includes pedigree of the
Bayly family (1647)-1818; schedule of title deeds (1685)-1818 (Bayly family; Wm
{William?} Maule; Duke of Beaufort] [110.2.24]. [Gloucestershire Archives,
BADMINTON MUNIMENTS Date range: 1685 - 1819.
Source: Access to Archives (A2A): not kept at The National Archives
1686
Certified copy mortgage (1653) and release and marriage settlement (1656)
relating to Kemys house and various lands in Stoke Harris in Stoke Gifford
(Glos.).
Parties: Berkeley, Vickris, Symes. These documents are held at Wiltshire and
Swindon Archives
1686
Certificate of marriage at Quaker meeting [in Frenchay] between Jn. Player of
Grittleton (Wilts.) and Mary, daughter of Wm. Millett of Stoke Gifford
(signatures of witnesses subscribed);
1686
D2700/ON2/4 recovery, 1686;
1686
D2700/NR1/24 1686-1729 Contents: Burdown als Twelve Acres Close (7a.); the Marl
Pits als New Tyning (4a.); 1½a. meadow
1686
D2700/NR1/24 1686-1729 Includes abstract of title (1686)-1729;
1687
List of birth dates of Jn. and Mary Player's children;
1687
(1687-99) list of birth dates of Jn. and Mary Player's children;
1688
D2700/NR1/24 1686-1729 settlement before marriage of Wm Knapp, Stoke Gifford,
yeoman, and Elizabeth Thomas, Horfield, spinster, 1688 (Harford family; Wm
Knapp; Jn Berkeley) [Ka 2/8]
1690
Little Stoke Includes copy will of Thomas Lawford, Lt. Stoke, yeoman, dated 1690
1690
D2700/NR1/7 1653-1744 Includes copy Will of Thomas Lawford, Lt. Stoke, yeoman,
dated 1690;
1700
D5090/15 late 17th/early 18th cent Contents: Will of Isaac Millett of Stoke
Gifford, yeoman Refers to property in Frampton Cotterell
1700
SMR Number Name 11163 Orangery (Chapel) Stoke Park Stoke Gifford
Description: Orangery, now chapel. Circa 1700. Ashlar hipped roof. Single room,
single storey, 4 windows (now containing paired, pointed lights) and central
door (now under round headed fanlight) all with architrave; central 3 bays break
slightly forward with fluted Corinthian pilastrade, now very worn, end bays have
alternating quoins, all under moulded cornice, and plain parapet bearing fading
lettering which reads TRA--- SUA QUES- -OLURTES. East and west end have round
headed arches with blocked imposts and keystone, that at east is partially
blocked and has a small stained window, that to west has double doors under a
fanlight.
Site Type Grid Reference ORANGERY 362298 177328
1705
PROB 11/480 Will of Robert Lawford Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will
of Robert Lawford Yeoman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1705.
1708
Jn. Player and two others referring to Valentine [H]ewse [i.e. Hughes?] of Stoke
Gifford, too old and sick to maintain his family without parish relief
("wee...doth alow that [he] shall sill alle [? sell all] in Stoke Gifford")
1708
D5090/20 1708/9 Contents: Note signed by Jn. Player and two others referring to
Valentine [H]ewse [i.e. Hughes?] of Stoke Gifford, too old and sick to maintain
his family without parish relief ("wee...doth alow that [he] shall sill alle [?
sell all] in Stoke Gifford")
1711
Little Stoke probate of will of Daniel Lawford, Stoke Gifford, gent, 1711;
1711
D2700/NR1/7 1653-1744 probate of Will of Daniel Lawford, Stoke Gifford, gent,
1712
PROB 11/526 Will of Daniel Lawford Gentleman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Will of Daniel Lawford Gentleman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1712.
1717
D2700/ON2/4 estate settlement, 1717;
1718
D2700/SD2/1 1718 Related information: [See also ESTATE MANAGEMENT: STOKE AND
STAPLETON, LEGAL 'Stoke Gifford tithes' (Gloucestershire Record Office
D2700/QP5/17)] Contents: Deed of consecration of the churchyard [Kb2/4]
1720
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission E
134/7Geo1...Worrell, Matthew Knapp, John Berkeley.: Rectory of Winterborne, and
the parishes of Winterborne and Stoke Gifford, in the county of Gloucester, and
the hamlet or tithing of Stoke Harris alias Harry Stoke,"in the said parish of
Stoke Gifford and tithing Date range: 1720 - 1721.
1721
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission E 134/8Geo1...
Tucker.: Rectory and parish of Winterborne, in the county of Gloucester, the
parish and manor of Stoke Gifford, the hamlet of Stoke Harris alias Harry Stoke,
the defendant Knapp's farm at Great Stoke called "Wallscourt," the hamlet of
Hambrook, and the Date range: 1721 - 1722. Source: The Catalogue of The National
Archives
1720
Stoke Gifford tithes 'William Cary, Rector of Winterbourne, v. John Berkeley and
others, claiming that a moiety of the tithes of Harry Stoke hamlet belong to
Winterbourne 'where the inhabitants of Harry Stoke have buried their dead'
because Stoke Gifford churchyard was not consecrated until 1718. Berkeley argued
that the tithes were not an endowment, but paid only for the burial facility,
and have therefore ceased since the consecration of Stoke Gifford which is now
used instead
1720
D2700/QP1/4 c. 1720 Contents: Survey endorsed 'the survey of Joseph Millet's
farm bought last summer', Stoke Gifford [K shelf 2/7]
1721
William Worrell, Matthew Knapp, John Berkeley, esquire. v. Richard Bayley,
Thomas Bayley, Charles Bayley, Thomas Simmons, Arthur Tucker.: Rectory and
parish of Winterborne, in the county of Gloucester, the parish and manor of
Stoke Gifford, the hamlet of Stoke Harris alias Harry Stoke, the defendant
Knapp's farm at Great Stoke called" Wallscourt," the hamlet of Hambrook, and the
tithing of Mangotsfled. Metes and bounds, &c., &c. Tithes.: Bristol; Gloucester.
1721
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission E 134/7Geo1...
Rectory of Winterborne, and the parishes of Winterborne and Stoke Gifford, in
the county of Gloucester, and the hamlet or tithing of Stoke Harris alias Harry
Stoke,"in the said parish of Stoke Gifford and tithing of Mangotsfield"
(Gloucester). Metes and Date range: 1720 - 1721.
Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives
1722
D2700/SD4/2 1722-1752 1 vol. Contents: Overseers' accounts (receipts and
disbursements) Includes poor rate assessments; appointment of churchwardens and
overseers; detailed disbursements including irons for the whipping post, 1744 At
front: inventories of furniture in the Church House [Press F]
1723
Certificate of marriage at Quaker meeting in Bath between Jacob Player of Stoke
Gifford and Mary, daughter of Jn. Ashford of Portishead (Som.) (signatures of
witnesses subscribed);
1723
D5090/5 1723 Contents: Assignment of leasehold property (not specified) by Jn,
Player of Stoke Gifford to his son, Jacob (copy)
1723
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/5 1723 Contents: Assignment of leasehold
property (not specified) by Jn, Player of Stoke Gifford to his son, Jacob (copy)
1723
1723 certificate of marriage at Quaker meeting in Bath between Jacob Player of
Stoke Gifford and Mary, daughter of Jn. Ashford of Portishead (Som.) (signatures
of witnesses subscribed);
1723 [1723] Mary Player's marriage vow;
1725
'A map of Stoke Gifford the seat of John Berkeley, Esq., with the manors of
Great Stoke, Harry Stoke and Little Stoke...1725' Shows whole parish; Stoke
Park, field names, roads, woods, buildings in elevation Ornamental drawing of a
stag hunt Surveyor: J[ohn] Vaston Scale: 6 chains: 1" (13.3": 1 mile) Size: 27"
by 59½"; ink and watercolour on parchment
1726
D2700/QP8/2a/4 1715-1752 11 Contents: Deeds relating to leasehold property
Includes settlement before marriage of Thos Blackwell and Martha Millett, 1726;
copy will of Francis Blackwell, Stoke Gifford, yeoman, dated 1736 [Kc 1/6-9]
1730
will of Jn. Player of Stoke Gifford, yeoman;
1731
AC/WH/12/4/i-ix 1731/2 January 25 Contents: Copy deed to lead the uses of a fine
and recovery 4) Alexander Quick of Burrington, gent. Manors of Winterbourne and
Hambrooke, Winterbourne Court, 200 acres demesne lands and land in Frenchay,
Frampton, Moore End, Down End, Mangotsfield, Hampton, Patchway, Stoke Gifford,
Pucklechurch, Wickwick, Acton and Westerliegh
1733
D2700/QP1/5 1733-1779 Contents: Survey of part of the manors of Stoke Gifford
and Stapleton 'showing how it is at present divided into the several farms and
tenements', by William Llewellin, 1733; annotated by Silas Blandford (steward)
to 1779 At front: Blandford's memoranda, 1748-1761 [Press F]
1736
Little Stoke copy will of Grace Lawford, Stoke Gifford, widow, proved 1736;
1736
PROBATE CAUSES GDR/B4/2 [n.d.] Lawford, Grace, Stoke Gifford GDR/B4/2/L 29
1736
D2700/QP8/2a/4 1715-1752 11 Contents: Deeds relating to leasehold property
Includes copy will of Francis Blackwell, Stoke Gifford, yeoman, dated 1736 [Kc
1/6-9]
1736
D2700/P26/9 1736/7 Related information: [See also FAMILY: Lady Hereford as
executor] Contents: Probate of the will of John Berkeley, Stoke Gifford, Esq.,
dated 1735 [Ld 1/8]
1736
D2700/NR1/7 1653-1744copy Will of Grace Lawford, Stoke Gifford, widow, proved
1736.
1737
PROB 11/681 Will of John Berkeley Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Will of John
Berkeley Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1737.
1742
D2700/SD4/8 1742-1789 10 Contents: Bastardy bonds, orders, warrants
[110.1.18(misc.)]
1742
PROB 11/722 Will of The Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Viscountess Hereford or
The Lady Elizabeth Viscountess Hereford Widow Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire .
Will of The Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Viscountess Hereford or The Lady
Elizabeth Viscountess Hereford Date: 1742.
1743
baptism of Mary, daughter of Jn. and Ara Millett of Stoke Gifford;
1743
Samuel FRY of Almondsbury, yeoman, surviving trustees of John HARRIS of Little
Stoke, Stoke Gifford, yeoman, deceased)
1743
REMOVAL ORDERS TO FRAMPTON COTTERELL [no ref. or date] From Stoke Gifford:
Elizabeth Withers, singlewoman. Robert Cann (S) Edward Southwell (S), J.P.'s.
P/FC/OP/3/1 1-6-1743
1743
D2700/QP8/2a/5 1743 1 Contents: Lease by Thos Bayley to Norborne Berkeley of an
unspecified estate in Stoke [Ka 1/9c]
1743
Baptism of Mary, daughter of Jn. and Ara Millett of Stoke Gifford;
1744
Little Stoke receipt for a cider mill in the mill house on the farm, 1744
1747
D2700/ON2/4 recoveries, 1747, 1776;
1751
D2700/SD4/6 1751 2 Contents: Copy poor rate expenditure and assessments, 1747-
1752
Hannah Penny, a poor child aged 11, by William Millet and Stephen Stout,
churchwardens, and W.M. and Thomas Denby, overseers of F.C., to Hugh Parker,
butcher of Stoke Gifford, until AH.P. is 21, to be taught butchery. Hugh Parker
(S) (No. 11), W.M. (S), S.S. (S), T.D. (S) (no. 12). Witnessed by Jane Millet
(S), George Becher (S). P/FC/OP/5/11-12 29 May 1752
1753
D2700/SD4/3 1753 1 vol., 10 Related information: [And referred to in the estate
cash books as 'Stoke parish day book' or 'parish poor account' see ESTATE
MANAGEMENT: STOKE AND STAPLETON, Accounts, especially 'Church and poor account'
vouchers and estate vouchers, cash books, 'day books' and 1771 rental] Contents:
'The particulars of the church and poor account for the year 1753', and vouchers
At end reversed: disbursements on the church account Kept by Silas Blandford
Includes receipts for work done by the poor (spinning etc.), detailed
disbursements, including 'extraordinary disbursements by master's orders';
Norborne Berkeley's account includes spelling book, prayer books, 'Whole duty of
man', teaching children to spin, pair of spectacles, large quantities of
provisions, wine, spirits, tobacco and clothing [110.1.18 (misc.)]
1753
[no title] D2700/QP1/6 1753
These documents are held at Gloucestershire Archives
1 vol.
Contents:
Silas Blandford's draft survey and valuation of Stoke manor 'showing how it is
at present divided into the several farms or tenements with the names of the
tenants occupying the same', with additional notes by Blandford e.g. 'the Poor
House in Harry Stoke not included in the survey'
At end reversed: inventories of goods belonging to Norborne Berkeley in various
farmhouses
[110.2.46]
1757
D2700/SD2/2 1757 2 vols, 1 Contents: Terrier of Stoke parish and account of the
modus's payable for vicarial tithes, agreed to by the vicar, churchwardens,
owners and occupiers at a parish meeting, signed by the vicar, churchwardens,
Norborne Berkeley and other owners and occupiers; and draft (incomplete) [Press
F; 110.2.72; 110.1.18(misc.)]
1757
D2700/SD4/7 1757-1789 15 Contents: Settlement orders (1757-1769) and
examinations and related papers (1761-1789) [110.1.18(misc.)]
1757
37890/6 1757 December 20 Contents: Marriage Settlement 1. John Player of Ross 2.
Mary Fisher of Bristol 3. John Player of Stoke Gifford 4. George Fisher of
Bristol Premises: a house in Ross
1759
Silas Blandford's papers: warrants and papers relating to distraint on Jacob
Player, Stoke Gifford, (a Quaker) for tithes; inventory of goods and chattels of
Jn Daniel, the Golden Hart, Stoke, 1759;
1759
Silas Blandford's papers: inventory of goods and chattels of Jn Daniel, the
Golden Hart, Stoke, 1759;
1759
D2700/SD4/9 1759-1780 4 Contents: Apprenticeship indentures [110.1.18(misc.)]
1763
Jn. Player of Stoke Gifford: Drafts of his 'observations' on geology in
Gloucestershire, and diagram of strata, 1763 and 1765, with letter to Jn. Player
at Tockington from Chas. J. Harford at Stapleton commenting on Player's
geological studies,
1801;Correspondence between Jn. Player at Stoke Gifford and Peter Collinson in
London about geology, fossils, and also discoveries in tanning leather, 1765-68
(include comments on age of the great chestnut tree in Lord Ducie's garden at
Tortworth, 1765; list of elephants' teeth and bones sent from Philadelphia in
1767, 1768). In original bundles .Original bundle order
1763
D5090/18 1763-1801 Contents: Jn. Player of Stoke Gifford: Drafts of his
'observations' on geology in Gloucestershire, and diagram of strata, 1763 and
1765, with letter to Jn. Player at Tockington from Chas. J. Harford at Stapleton
commenting on Player's geological studies, 1801; Correspondence between Jn.
Player at Stoke Gifford and Peter Collinson in London about geology, fossils,
and also discoveries in tanning leather, 1765-68 (include comments on age of the
great chestnut tree in Lord Ducie's garden at Tortworth,
1765
list of elephants' teeth and bones sent from Philadelphia in 1767, 1768). In
original bundles. Original bundle order
1764
D2700/SD4/4 1764-1767 1 vol., 1 Contents: 'Stoke poor house book' Theophila
Chinn's als Brown's receipts for spinning etc., and disbursements - provisions,
clothing, tobacco etc. [110.1. 18 (misc.)]
1766
will of Jacob Player of Stoke Gifford;
1767
D2700/SD4/5 1767-1773 2 vols, 4 Related information: [See also ESTATE
MANAGEMENT: STOKE AND STAPLETON, Miscellaneous accounts: spinning and baking
accounts and vouchers] Contents: Stoke poor house books: Theophila Chinn's and
Betty Hunt's receipts and disbursements [110.2.1 (box 1)]
1768
'A map of the seat belonging to His Excellency Lord Botetourt at Stoke
Gifford...surveyed...1768 by Jonas Blandford'
1769
D2700/QP3/9/28 1769-1770 Contents: Estate vouchers, including farming, woods and
gardens Includes coach hire for Thomas Jeffries embarking for Virginia, Jan.
1769; copy probate inventory of Thomas Smith, deceased, Stoke Gifford, gardener,
and copy administration of his effects [110.1.18]
1770
D2700/SD4/10 1770 2 Contents: Appointments of overseers (warrants)
[110.1.18(misc.)]
1774
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/4 1691-1798 Contents: Leases, etc., for
messuages and lands in Clevedon (Somerset) Include assignment of Burnt House and
lands (16a.) in trust for Jn. Player of Stoke Gifford, 1773; limited
administration of estate of Jn. Hartnell, 1774 ; deed of exchange of lands
between Sir Abraham Elton and Jn. Player of Tockington, 1798
1775
certificate of marriage at Quaker meeting in Lawrence Weston of Jn. Player of
Stoke Gifford and Mary Millett (signatures of witnesses subscribed);
1775
1775 certificate of marriage at Quaker meeting in Lawrence Weston of Jn. Player
of Stoke Gifford and Mary Millett (signatures of witnesses subscribed);
1776
births of Jn. and Mary Player's children at Stoke Gifford;
1776
(1776-85) births of Jn. and Mary Player's children at Stoke Gifford;
1776
CCCXIII. STOKE GIFFARD, anciently Stocke,
The history of the county of Gloucester - Page 359
by Thomas Rudge, Sir Robert Atkyns - History - 1803
Is a parish, containing 2000 acres, four miles N. from Bristol, and thirty-two
s. from Gloucester. The soil is various, but generally of clay, and in a large
proportion applied to pasture.
The name was added to distinguish it from other Stokes (42) (314) in the county,
derived from the family who were proprietors for many generations.
The manor of Stoke was given, among others, by the Conqueror to Osborn Gilford
(160). In 1338 it passed into the family of Berkeley after the death of
Margaret, widow of John Giffard, who was executed at Gloucester for rebellion
against Edward the second.
Sir Maurice Berkeley, the grantee, was the second son of Maurice Lord Berkeley,
of Berkeley castle, in whose posterity it lineally descended from father to the
eldest son through twelve generations till 1685, when George Berkeley, Esq.
dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother, John Symes Berkeley, from
whose marriage with his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Walter
Norborna, of Calne, co. Wilts, Esq. sprung Norborne Berkeley, Esq. and Elizabeth
married to Charles Noel, Duke of Beaufort, and mother of the present Duke.
Norborne Berkeley, Esq. had the claim allowed him of the Barony of Botetourt,
which had long been in abeyance, and was summoned by his Majesty to Parliament
as Baron Botetourt by descent. On his death, in 1770, the title became extinct,
and his sister Elizabeth, Dutchess Dowager of Beaufort, succeeded to the manor
and estate; and on her death, both descended to his Grace Henry, the present
Duke of Beaufort, her son.
Stoke house, the manerial seat, was built originally in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, by Sir Richard Berkeley, and being much injured during the great
rebellion, the present mansion was partly rebuilt, and entirely repaired and
decorated by the late Lord Botetourt about 1760, and it is recorded in honour of
his Lordship, that the motto placed in the front (mihivobisque) perfectly
accorded with the amiable disposition and acknowledged character of the noble
proprietor. The eminence on which the building. is erected gives it a peculiar
grandeur, and nature has been unusually fortunate in the assistance she has
derived from art, in embellishing the local beauties of the situation.
HAMLETS. 1. Great Stoke, in which the house is situated. 2. Little Stoke. 3.
Harris or Kerry Stoke. The whole parish is the property of the Duke.
No freeholder voted in 1776.
Population, 200—283—281. Houses inhabited, 39.
The benefice is in the deanery and diocese of Bristol, but archdeaconry of
Gloucester, a vicarage, anciently appropriated to Little Malvern, co Worcest.
for which John Giffard held the advowson in trust. The patronage is now with the
manor, and James Hammond Foxcroft, A. M. is incumbent.
The church, dedicated to St. Michael, consists of a nave and north aisle,
separated by two fluted pillars, and as many pilasters, with capitals. The
interior is neat and uniform. The tower is finished with battlements and
pinnacles, and the porch ornamented with elegant tabernacle work.
In P. N. tax. the church of Stoke Giffard, 10/.
In the King's books (discharged) 6/.
1777
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/9 1777-1784 1 small vol. Contents: Cash
accounts for wages and memoranda about agreements for dairymaids and other
female servants With note at front "my wife's payments and agreements" [? Mary,
wife of Jn. Player of Stoke Gifford]
1779
Includes copy settlement before marriage of Francis Milman, Westminster, M.D.,
and Frances Hart, Stapleton, spinster, 1779;
1779 certificate of redemption of land tax (including Stanley Farm,
Winterbourne)
1781
PROB 11/1076 Will of William Jones Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will
of William Jones Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1781.
1782
PROB 11/1095 Will of Silas Blandford Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire .
Will of Silas Blandford Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1782.
1784
D2700/SD5/1 1784 1 Contents: Summons - Thomas Croom, Harry Stoke, for having
killed a pointer belonging to Jonas Blandford [110.1.18(misc.)]
1788
THOS. HAMMOND FOXCROFT DD\RG/89 1788-1806 17 docts. Contents: Appointments to
ecclesiastical position, mainly involving benefices of Beauchamp Roding [co.
Essex] & Stoke Gifford [co. Glouc.]
1788
SMR Number Name 11166 Obelisk Star Hill Stoke Park Stoke Gifford
Description: Obelisk. 1788. Plain Bath stone obelisk, now damaged. Erected to
commemorate the restoration of George III's reason. Situated on boundary between
Northavon and Bristol and listed in Bristol (serial no. ST 67 NW 54/1564).
{1}{2}
Monument to 4th Duke of Beaufort, d1756; the monument in situ by 1764; designer
Thomas Wright.
Site Type Grid Reference COMMEMORATIVE 361797 177175
1789
D5090/19 1789 Contents: Letter to their parents, Jn. and [Mary] Player of
Tockington from Wm. and Jn. (aged 13 and 10) while at school in Sidcot
[Somerset]
1789
38640/9 1789 April 11 1 doct. Contents: Marriage settlement Parties: 1. Ann
Charmbury 2. William Turner of Stoke Gifford, gent. 3. John Huddlestone and
Lamrock Flower, trustees of the will of James Charmbury 4. John Webb and Edward
Dyer Premises: Ten acres of land at Wattons Hill, Westerleigh, and two sums of
£150
1790
plan of Stanley Farm, (Winterbourne and Filton), by J. Sturge, 1790;
1791
PROB 11/1205 Will of William Iles Farmer Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will
of William Iles Farmer Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1791.
1793
D2700/SD2/3 1793 2 Contents: 'Papers relating to the augmentation of Stoke
living' (4th Duchess's hand) Includes copy of the Bishop of Bristol's commission
and queries annexed about the augmentation of the living [110.1.18(misc.)]
1798
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/4 1691-1798 Contents: Leases, etc., for
messuages and lands in Clevedon (Somerset) Include assignment of Burnt House and
lands (16a.) in trust for Jn. Player of Stoke Gifford, 1773; limited
administration of estate of Jn. Hartnell, 1774 ; deed of exchange of lands
between Sir Abraham Elton and Jn. Player of Tockington, 1798
1798
PROB 11/1309 Will of William Bawn Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will
of William Bawn Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1798.
1799
D2700/ON2/4 conveyance to the 5th Duke under the will of Lord Botetourt, 1799;
1802
PROB 11/1372 Will of William Turner Gentleman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Will of William Turner Gentleman Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1802.
1803
D2700/ON2/4 office copy of special probate of will and codicils of 5th Duke,
1803;
1803
IR 26/294 Will of Edward Gunter Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Proved in the
Court of Bristol. . Will of Edward Gunter Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Proved in the Court of Bristol. Date: 1803.
1805
D2700/ON2/4 counsel's opinions, 1805-13;
1805
AC/WH/21/3 1805 January 20 Contents: Copy indenture of fine Querent: Edward Bigg
Deforciants: Sir Francis Milman, Bart, and Frances his wife Messuages and land
in Stapleton, Winterbourne, Stoke Gifford, Hambrook Filton, Bedminster, Long
Ashton, St. Peter's Fine: £920
1806
IR 26/295 Will of Mary Stephens Widow Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Proved in
the Court of Bristol. . Will of Mary Stephens Widow Stoke Gifford,
Gloucestershire . Proved in the Court of Bristol. Date: 1806.
1811
baptism of Wm. Jn., son of Jn. and Eliz. Player, at Elberton (copied in 1851)
1814
D2700/QP1/9 1814 Contents: Survey and valuation of the manor of Stoke Gifford
Annotated by the Badminton Agent to c. 1835
1817
Order by Stephen Cave and John Parker, J.P.'s, that William Parker, labourer of
Stoke Gifford, father of female bastard child of Ann Prigg, singlewoman of F.C.,
pay to churchwardens and overseers of F.C. £3 2s. and 2s. 0d. weekly and Ann
Prigg 1s. 0d. weekly, if child becomes chargeable to parish. P/FC/OP/6/36 23rd
October, 1817
1819
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/10 1819-1820 Contents: Farmer's diary
recording (briefly) weather conditions and tasks carried out by male and female
labourers (forenames only given)
1828
Removal orders from Olveston [no ref. or date] Sarah Morgan, wife of Thomas, and
sons Thomas aged c.2½ and Samuel aged c.1, to Stoke Gifford, co. Glos.
P/OV/OP/11/64 1828 May 8 1 doct.
1829
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/6 1829 Contents: Letters referring to transfer
of deeds for Jn. Player's Tockington estate, 1829 and n.d. [the second letter,
although undated, appears to be related]
1829
17 September 1829 George Browne Using a gun and a dog to kill game in Stoke
Gifford, when not qualified H W Newman, JP at Lawford's Gate Sessions Room.
James Howell, informer. William Merrick, witness. Pleaded not guilty. Fined £5.
Crime committed Thursday 3 September 1829
1829
PROB 11/1754 Will of Benjamin Dowling Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will of
Benjamin Dowling Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1829.
1829
PROB 11/1752 Will of The Most Noble Elizabeth Duchess of Beaufort Widow, Dowager
Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will of The Most Noble Elizabeth Duchess of
Beaufort Widow, Dowager Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1829.
1830
PROB 11/1767 Will of Isaac Witchell Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire .
Will of Isaac Witchell Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1830.
1834
17 June 1834 [partly printed form] Isaac Willcox, yeoman of Stoke Gifford,
Barton Regis Using a dog to kill game, without obtaining the required
certificate J Parker, JP and H W Newman, JP at Lawford's Gate Sessions room,
Commissioners for assessed taxes. Fined £10. [Date of crime not given]
1836
copy of Frances Milman, widow, proved 1836; burial certificates, Milman family,
1836
PROB 11/1863 Will of John Park Farmer Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will of
John Park Farmer Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1836.
1838
PROB 11/1889 Will of Henry Andrews Gentleman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire .
Will of Henry Andrews Gentleman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1838.
1839
PROB 11/1909 Will of Christian Anstey Widow Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire .
Will of Christian Anstey Widow Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1839.
1840
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/11 1840 Contents: Voucher for timber bought
from the Misses Player of Tockington by Thos. Jarratt
1842
D2700/QP11/1/1 1841-1846 1 bdl Contents: copy tithe apportionment, 1842; Duke's
declaration re merging rent-charge in freehold [Fd 2/10; Box H bdl 3]
1843
D2700/QP11/1/2 1843 1 Contents: 'Map of the parish of Stoke Gifford and lands in
the parishes of Winterbourne, Filton and Stapleton... the property of His Grace
the Duke of Beaufort' Copy tithe map (Tithe Commissioners' stamp) Surveyor: D.
Horwood, Bristol Scale: 6 chains: 1" (13.3": 1 mile) Size: 30" by 45" Ink and
watercolour on paper, mounted [Map 51a]
1844
Conveyances of Stanley Farm, 1844,
1844
PROB 11/1991 Will of Hester Emerson otherwise Emmerson Wife Stoke Gifford ,
Gloucestershire . Will of Hester Emerson otherwise Emmerson Wife Stoke Gifford ,
Gloucestershire Date: 1844.
1846
D2700/QP11/1/4 (1846) 2 Contents: Copy 'Plan of titheable lands in the parish of
Stoke Gifford' and copy tithe apportionment of unmerged A rent charge; and
tracing Shows small area of parish only Surveyor: Robert K. Dawson Scale: 6
chains: 1" (13.3"; 1 mile) Size: 19" by 30" [Map 52a]
1846
PROB 11/2035 Will of William Builder Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire .
Will of William Builder Yeoman Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1846.
1847
PROB 11/2051 Will of John Parker Farmer Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will
of John Parker Farmer Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1847.
1848
PROB 11/2082 Will of Christian House Widow Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire .
Will of Christian House Widow Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1848.
1850
D2700/QP1/12 c.1850-c.1864 Contents: Particulars of farms belonging to the Stoke
Gifford estate Includes map references, tenants, field names, acreages, state of
cultivation, rent; also includes plans of Kingswood Lodge Farm and Ridgeway
Farm, both noted as sold (c.1864) [Box C bay C]
1855
PROB 11/2207 Will of Lucy Wilcox Spinster Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire . Will
of Lucy Wilcox Spinster Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire Date: 1855.
1855
SMR Number Name 6518 Wallscourt Farm Stoke Gifford
Description: Farmhouse. 1855.
1857
PROB 11/2256 Will of Elizabeth Brathwaite Spinster Stoke Gifford ,
Gloucestershire .
1860
Summers, Thomas Official Number: 96644 Place of Birth: Stoke Gifford,
Gloucestershire Date 03 August 1860 Catalogue reference ADM 188/108links to the
Catalogue Dept Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines,
Coastguard, and related bodies Series Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of
Seamen's Services
1860
ADM 188/108 Name Summers Thomas 96644 Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire . Name
Summers Thomas 96644 Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1860.
1861
19a. 30p., Stoke Gifford and Filton, conveyed to the Bristol and South Wales
Union Railway
1861
William Slade, Stoke Gifford. Railway worker CO1/I/7/B/8 04.04.1861 3 docs
Contents: Accidental death (struck by wagon) J,V,E
1861
Sgt. Browning re death of man, name unknown, aged 28, Stoke Gifford. Labourer -
railway navvy CO1/N/7/A/43 01.04.1861
1861
D2700/ON2/4 Thompson family burial certificates[110.2.62-65; Fd 2/11, 3/7; F
shelf 2/12, 12a; Box 52 bdl 3]
1862
SMR Number Name 12270 The Court The Green Stoke Gifford
Description: Farmhouse and attached cottage, now house. Part of a major Beaufort
estate development in picturesque tradition.
Site Type Grid Reference DWELLING 362391 179722
1863 South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 12271 The Gables and Wayside The Green Stoke Gifford
Description: Pair of cottages. Dated 1863. Part of a major Beaufort development
in the picturesque tradition.
Site Type Grid Reference DWELLING 362334 179755
1863
SMR Number Name 12272 St Michaels School The Green Stoke Gifford
Description: School. Dated 1863. Part of a major Beaufort estate development in
the picturesque tradition.
Site Type Grid Reference DWELLING 362341 179784
1863
D2700/ON2/4 abstracts of title (1683)-1816;
1864
Sgt. Browning re Elisa Price, aged 1yr 3mths, Stoke Gifford CO1/N/10/A/36
14.03.1864 CO1/I/10/B/2 15.03.1864 Accidental death (burns)
1865
Inquest files CO1/I [n.d.] Edwin Ogbourn aged 8 months, Stoke Gifford
CO1/I/1/C/13 01.10.1855 3 docs Contents:
South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 12269 Vicarage No 24 North Road Stoke Gifford
Description: Vicarage. Circa 1865. Rubble brought to courses, quoins, freestone
dressings, slate roof. Main block, set back north wing. Main block, 2 storeys, 3
windows all glazing bar sashes under gables, lower central gable is set back
with shallow porch under flat hood; left gable has 2 windows below, one above,
both under relieving arches; right gable has canted pitched bay below. North
wing has 1 ½ storeys, 2 windows, a glazing bar sash below, pairs of 4-light
sashes between mullions above rise as eaves dormers; inserted C20 garage door to
left. Part of a major Beaufort estate development in picturesque tradition..
Listed primarily for group value with the church and other Beaufort buildings.
Site Type Grid Reference DWELLING 362222 179699
1867
Apprenticeship Indentures and related papers George Nowell son of Giles and
Elizabeth to George Luton of Stoke Gifford. CARPENTER and WHEELWRIGHT, For 4
Years. P/W/OP/15/241 1867 Oct 14
1870
John Bailey, infant, Stoke Gifford CO1/I/16/D/22 24.12.1870 Accidental death
(suffocation)
1870
Gloucestershire Archives Records of the Coroner for the Lower Division Isaac
Winstone, Stoke Gifford CO1/I/16/D/10 16.11.1870 Contents: Visitation of God
(serious epilepsy)
1870
Sgt. Monk re John Bailey, aged 4 months, Stoke Gifford CO1/N/16/D/46 21.12.1870
1870
Sgt. Monk re Isaac Winstone, aged 65, Stoke Gifford. Labourer CO1/N/16/D/22
14.11.1870
1872
Includes trial bores for iron ore, 1872;
1873 PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/7 1873 Contents: Letter to [Jn.] Player
from solicitors in Swansea referring to lease of Clydach foundry (Glamorgan)
1875
Apprenticeship Indentures and related papers P/W/OP/15 [n.d.] Alfred Gibbs
13,son of Albert, labourer to Francis Cam of Stoke Gifford, CARPENTER and
WHEELWRIGHT, For 6 Years. P/W/OP/15/246 1875 July 6 Teething convulsions
1878
PLAYER FAMILY STOKE GIFFORD D5090/12 1878, nd Contents: Schedule of bonds,
1878;
Note of stock held by Jn. Player, n.d. [early 19th cent.?]
1879
Purchase of rent charge payable to the Trustees of Bristol Municipal Charities
out of Stanley Farm, by Duke of Beaufort
1880
Correspondence with Admiral Close, lessee of Stoke Park, 1880-1894 about
alterations and repairs, sport, politics, involvement in parish disputes, and
disputes between Duke and his tenants - Close given notice to quit;
1885
SMR Number Name 5101 Patchway Railway Station (1885) Gipsy Patch Lane Stoke
Gifford
Description: Opened 10.8.1885 originally named Patchway and Stoke Gifford
renamed Patchway 27.10.1908 closed to goods 5.7.1965 and unstaffed
from14.10.1968. {1}
Site Type Grid Reference RAILWAY STATION 361112 180912
1885
Includes Inclosure Commissioners' Order of Exchange, lands in Frenchay and
Filton,
1861
Schedule of title deeds (1777)-1861; agreement about Walls Court Farm, 1861
1885
Land for widening railway, Stoke Gifford (Duke of Beaufort; Bristol and South
Wales Union Railway)
1885
Wigmore, Henry Thomas Official Number: J61591 Place of Birth: Stoke Gifford,
Gloucestershire Date 10 August 1885 Catalogue reference ADM 188/770links to the
Catalogue Dept Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines,
Coastguard, and related bodies Series Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of
Seamen's Services Piece
1885
ADM 188/770 Name Wigmore Henry Thomas J61591 Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Name Wigmore Henry Thomas J61591 Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1885.
1886
Order of exchange, 1a. land, Stoke Gifford (Duke of Beaufort; Revd N. Tibbits)
1892
Badminton agent's correspondence and papers relating to Stoke church restoration
Includes copy of architect's report, 1892, and résumé of his (E.H. Lingen
Barker) career; proceedings of Restoration Committee; correspondence with
Admiral Close (Chairman) and with incumbent -(dispute between Close and
supporters (Duke's tenant farmers) and incumbent and Duke and their supporters
over how restoration was to be managed, and by whom, and over proposed pulling
down of the vestry called 'the Duchess's Room'. Close also involved in dispute
over management of Stoke Gifford school, 1894. Close and the farmers who
supported him were given notice to quit by the Duke for stirring up trouble in
the parish and insulting the Duke)
1894
D2700/ON2/4 1683-1898 Deeds relating to the mortgage to the Equitable Life
Office (£35,460), 1894, transferred to the Prudential Assurance Co., 1898, on
the former Berkeley estates in Stoke Gifford, Stapleton, Winterbourne and Filton
1895
Name Phillips, Sidney Thomas Official Number: K30992 Place of Birth: Stoke
Gifford, Gloucestershire Date 13 June 1895 Catalogue reference
1895
ADM 188/928 Name Phillips Sidney Thomas K30992 Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire .
Name Phillips Sidney Thomas K30992 Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire Date: 1895.
1898
Field Farm, Stoke Gifford (17a.) (Duke of Beaufort; Messrs L. Pearson & Son,
Ltd.)
1900
D2700/QP12/2/8 1900 Contents: Licence to bore for coal in Stoke Gifford, and
agreement for grant of a mining lease [107]
1903
SMR Number Name 1333 Marshalling Yard Bristol Parkway Station North Road Stoke
Gifford
Description: A large marshalling yard laid out at Stoke Gifford, opened in July
1903.{1}The marshalling yard was made into a major passenger platform at Parkway
Station, in about 1973.{2} Opened may 1st 1972
Site Type Grid Reference MARSHALLING YARD 362500 179560
1920
2515/409/0347 ms 1920 Contents: Subject No. 4 [see fonds level scope] Stoke
Gifford: Workshop & Grease House Linen Backed Print
1935
SMR Number Name 9650 Lime and Mortar Works New Road Filton Stoke Gifford
Description: The 1935 OS plan of this area shows a Lime and Mortar works with a
standing limekiln, fed by a track leading out into the field to the north,
(presumably the source of the stone).{1} The site has been redeveloped, and all
the standing buildings appear to have been demolished. {2}
Site Type Grid Reference LIME WORKS 361430 179014
1946
South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 9718 Pill Box Railway Bridge Gipsy Patch Lane Stoke Gifford
Description: Facing east on the top of the railway embankment. D-shaped with
corners cut off, 2-gunloops in each face including rear. Entrance in SW corner
in a small separate block similar ASMR9719. Concrete with integral brick
facings. {1}{2}Very good condition but its prominent position may put it under
threat. A pillbox noted by the defence of Britain Project at ST613 804 is
probably this feature which is easily visible from road and rail. The DoB
feature has been given the temporary PRN 13591. (Evans D R pres comm 28/11/00).
Site Type Grid Reference PILLBOX 361183 180546
1946
SMR Number Name 9719 Pill Box Gipsy Patch Lane Stoke Gifford
Description: Set in the side of the embankment, square 2-iron gunloops in
concrete surrounds an all sides. Concrete with integral brick facings. Entrance
in an extra block on the south side projecting S and W to about half the width
of the main block to the height of the base of the gun loop. Type 26
{1}{2}Superb condition well maintained, possibly under threat if adjacent
building is redeveloped.
Site Type Grid Reference PILLBOX 361141 180573
1950
DA 38/712/1 [1950]-1968 Related information: See also DA 38/701/8/1-2 Contents:
Aerial black and white photographs showing the development of Filton Airfield
Includes views of local roads and housing at Filton and surrounding parishes
including Stoke Gifford, Winterbourne and Almondsbury, [1950] -1968; and view of
the proposed runway and flight path to be used by the 'Concorde' aeroplane, 1968
Also includes a plan of the East-West and North East-South West runways of
Filton Airfield produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), 1966
1954
SMR Number Name
2260 Coal Mine Filton Lane Stoke Gifford
Description:
Short lived drift mine 1954-61 beside the Filton-Frenchay Road. Only remains are
spoil heap
(although disused shaft on OS 6" 1960) {1}{2}ST61897850. A pear shaped banked
enclosure,
maximum dimensions approx. 60mNE-SW x 50m NW-SE, with a footpath cutting through
its N W
Site Type Grid Reference
COLLIERY 361900 178600
SMR Number Name 4177 Brickworks Hambrook Lane Stoke Gifford
Description: OS map evidence shows that a brickworks was established in this
area by 1902 when it was in the process of being linked to the railway by a
branch line it was still in operation in 1915 but by the mid 1930s most of the
original buildings had disappeared to be replaced by a depot. A number of later
buildings dating from the 30s and 40s, together with more recent buildings stand
on the site today (1999). It is possible that parts of the original structures
survive although the rail link is now under a new road and should be
investigated if the area is to be redeveloped. {1}
Site Type Grid Reference BRICKWORKS 362900 179700
1961
Sale particulars of Stoke Hill Farm, Stoke Gifford
UNDATED
SMR Number Name 4418 Lime Kiln Hatchet Lane Stoke Gifford
Description: A lime kiln was noted at this location on the 1st edition OS map
{1}
Site Type Grid Reference LIME KILN 362050 180020
SMR Number Name 4520 Cockpit Stoke Park Coldharbour Lane Stoke Gifford
Description: "Cockpit (site of)" {1} It is surrounded by tall trees, now an
asphalt yard, situated south east of the school and chapel. {2}
Site Type Grid Reference COCKPIT 362360 177300
South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 5257 Oval Enclosure Filton Road Stoke Gifford
Description: Long possible oval enclosure. Running north south on edge of photo.
Old field boundaries (or drainage lines) visible to the south of this. {1}
Site Type Grid Reference ENCLOSURE 362225 178540
SMR Number Name 9759 Desk Top Study Bristol Business Park Stoke Gifford
Description: Few features of archaeological significance have been identified in
the study area Four boundary stones are recorded in the 17th & 18 th centuries,
and one is known to have survived until at least the 1930s.A bank of unknown
origin has been identified on the eastern edge of the site. It appears to relate
to further banks which lie outside the study area,. An area of 1.5 acres towards
the north of the site was used as an army camp in the 1940s and concrete bases
and other structures from the camp
survive in the present north field. {1}
Site Type Grid Reference SITE 362465 178414
SMR Number Name 10280 Cropmark Great Stoke, Stoke Gifford
Description: A small sub-circular vegetation mark, possibly reflecting the
presence of an infilled pond is noted in {1}
Site Type Grid Reference POND 362290 180280
South Gloucestershire Historic Environment
SMR Number Name 10573 Excavation Foxden Road Harry Stoke, Stoke Gifford
Description: The report on this site was numbered as SGSMR 10749. {1} Prior to
determination of planning application P95/1361 on land north of Foxden Road
Harry Stoke a series of eight trenches were excavated by the Avon Archaeological
unit during October 1995. The evaluation project recorded archaeologically
significant remains of minor importance at the south eastern end of the
application site. (trenches 7 and 8). These consisted in total of stone built
drain, probably of early - modern origin, and two smaller gullies of early
indeterminate date. Elsewhere on the site the evaluation revealed no evidence
whatsoever of any substantive archaeological remains. {12}
Site Type Grid Reference SITE 361850 178900