Cheltenham Gateway

Genuki website has useful information about Gloucestershire in general and also specific parishes and towns.

This website contains links to various other websites containing old maps of Gloucestershire and Cheltenham.

Gives you the populations for towns, villages and sometimes hamlets in the county at 10 year intervals throughout the 19th century.

Allan Taylor's excellent website containing photos of many Gloucestershire churches with some information about their history.

Website with useful information about life in a workhouse and Cheltenham Poor Law Union and workhouse.

Website with useful information about various Cheltenham institutions including Cheltenham workhouse.

Website with useful information about current and historical Cheltenham pubs, their past owners and landlords.

In Historical Gazeteer of Cheltenham you can search for place names and find out the history behind Cheltenham streets and places .

A History of Charlton Park is a book written by local historian David Hanks, available in its entirety online, together with some great historical images of Cheltenham.

List of email contacts for volunteers willing to search for specific entries in the resources they have access to.

Genuki's abstracts from Gloucestershire wills sorted alphabetically by surname, search facility is also available.

Genealogical database of Gloucestershire Archives containing wills, non-conformist baptisms, overseers of the poor records and gaol registers.

Gloucestershire Archives catalogue holds details of the Local Studies material held in seven Centres across the county. The catalogue will tell you where each item is held.

Glosgen contains many Gloucestershire resources - war memorial inscriptions, parish records as well as other historical information.

Scroll down the page for contacts for volunteers willing to do look-ups in Gloucestershire parish registers.

Forest of Dean Family History is a useful website for anybody researching Forest ancestors. It includes a message board, photo gallery, parish records and many useful historical articles.

The information on this website was compiled by Julian Rawes for the Gloucestershire Family History Society and provides tombstone inscriptions of many graves at St. Peter's Church.

Excellent website covering all aspects of World War I in Cheltenham, including detailed information on the men whose names appear on Cheltenham war memorials.

Gloucestershire section of this national project includes Cheltenham Boer War memorial and Bishop's Cleeve, Southam and Swindon Village WWI memorials.

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum has records of over 40,000 soldiers who served in The Gloucestershire Regiment in World War I searchable online.

A great forum to look for your Gloucestershire ancestors.

Another great forum to look for your Gloucestershire ancestors.

Ancestry's message board for Gloucestershire might be useful when trying to connect with fellow researchers.

Rootsweb's Gloucestershire mailing list where fellow researchers may help you with your research.

Looking 4 Kin is a website for genealogy chat with plenty of genealogy links. It has a genealogy blog and forum too.

UK Genealogy Forum is a growing family history forum where you might find out more about your ancestors.

This website traces the development of the Uglow family since the 16th century. Information about Uglow family in Cheltenham can be found here.

Kevin Leech's website contains 600 related families with just over 2000 individual family members, including many Gloucestershire born

Gill and Glyn Hale's website features important information for anybody researching the Hale surname in Gloucestershire.

Ross Kitchen's family originated in the Cheltenham area of Gloucestershire before moving to London and then back to Gloucestershire .

Doreen and Ray Niblett's includes information on Niblett's of Gloucestershire with some great photos of The Cheltenham Corporation Fire Brigade

Jim Fisher's website includes among other things some useful historical information about Gloucesteshire and surnames Fisher and Bridges.

This website includes information on Descendants of William Cordy (died 1688), of Chipping Sodbury and Thomas Batten (1753-1833), of Bream

Durham Bubb's website mapping out his Bubb ancestors who came from Brockworth, Witcombe and Ullenwood, Gloucestershire..

Research of Roderick James Craig includes information about Adeys and Dyers of Wotton-Under-Edge, Gyde of Uley and Webb of Cromhall.

This website contains the family tree of John Adey of Painswick, Gloucestershire, dating back to 1640 and many other Adey related resources.

Barry and Maureen's website covers Surmans from Eldersfield, Worcestershire, UK 1480's, who moved to north Gloucestershire in 1543.