Mini research guides
Our wide range of research mini guides have been compiled by experts to help you find, use and understand key records held by Gloucestershire Archives
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- Which Guide to Choose (PDF, 257.5 KB)
- Alehouse Licensing records (PDF, 188.8 KB)
- Apprenticeship records (PDF, 257.5 KB)
- Asylum records (PDF, 158.7 KB)
- Bankruptcy and Debtors (PDF, 343.9 KB)
- Bishop's Transcripts (PDF, 110.8 KB)
- Boards of Guardians and Workhouse records (PDF, 307.5 KB)
- Books and the Local Studies Library (PDF, 185 KB)
- Census (PDF, 287.3 KB)
- Civil Cemeteries and Burial Grounds (PDF, 351.1 KB)
- Civil Certificates (PDF, 294 KB)
- Coroners records (PDF, 110.9 KB)
- Court records (PDF, 214.7 KB)
- Diocesan Church Court (PDF, 199.5 KB)
- District Councils (PDF, 141.9 KB)
- Divorce (PDF, 212 KB)
- Election Results & Politicians (PDF, 212.8 KB)
- Electoral Registers (PDF, 262.5 KB)
- Estate records (PDF, 202.4 KB)
- Evacuees during WW2 (PDF, 110.9 KB)
- Farms, Farmers & Agriculture (PDF, 130.7 KB)
- Floods and Flood defences (PDF, 118.9 KB)
- Freemen of Gloucester (PDF, 199.1 KB)
- Freeminers (PDF, 200.6 KB)
- Gaol records (PDF, 125.8 KB)
- Graves (PDF, 202.3 KB)
- Hedgerows (PDF, 251.2 KB)
- Hospital records (PDF, 247.3 KB)
- Inclosure Maps (PDF, 205.5 KB)
- Land Tax (PDF, 183.6 KB)
- Listed buildings (PDF, 188.3 KB)
- Manorial records (PDF, 202.7 KB)
- Maps (general) (PDF, 108.5 KB)
- Marriage Indexes before 1837 (PDF, 185.1 KB)
- Marriage Indexes after 1837 (PDF, 183.3 KB)
- Military Service records (PDF, 221 KB)
- Military Sources (PDF, 207.1 KB)
- Marriage licences (PDF, 203.2 KB)
- Newspapers (PDF, 220.6 KB)
- Non Conformist records (PDF, 375.4 KB)
- Ordnance Survey maps (PDF, 111.7 KB)
- Overseers of the Poor records (PDF, 262.3 KB)
- Parish Registers (PDF, 286 KB)
- Petty Sessions (PDF, 208.8 KB)
- Photographs (PDF, 128.6 KB)
- Plans of Railways, Roads and Canals (public schemes) (PDF, 63.2 KB)
- Police Staff records (PDF, 209.2 KB)
- Probate Inventories (PDF, 114.8 KB)
- Property Boundary records (PDF, 286.8 KB)
- Public Rights of Way (PDF, 114.6 KB)
- Quarter Sessions (PDF, 143.6 KB)
- School records (PDF, 363.9 KB)
- Shipping and Canal Boat records (PDF, 164 KB)
- South Gloucestershire records (PDF, 71.4 KB)
- Tithe Maps (PDF, 110.3 KB)
- Title Deeds (PDF, 211.3 KB)
- Tracing People (PDF, 309.9 KB)
- Trade and Street directories (PDF, 201.8 KB)
- Transportation of Criminals (PDF, 326 KB)
- Vehicle Licensing records (PDF, 195.1 KB)
- Wills and probate records (PDF, 216.6 KB)
- WW1 Home Front (PDF, 103.3 KB)
- WW1 Soldiers (PDF, 201.4 KB)
- WW2 - the Home Front (PDF, 305.3 KB)
- 1910 Valuation Maps (PDF, 176.6 KB)