Place details
County
Gloucestershire (/ˈɡlɒstərʃər/ ⓘ GLOST-ər-shər, /-ʃɪər/ -sheer; abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Gloucester.
Constituency
The constituency of Gloucestershire was a UK Parliamentary constituency. After it was abolished under the 1832 Electoral Reform Act, two new constituencies, West Gloucestershire and East Gloucestershire, were created.
Gloucestershire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire.
Associated events
| England and Wales Census 1851 | William Sandes (1799 - 1867) Rupertia Higgs (1802 - 1877) |
1851 | The census places them at Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. |
| Birth | Rupertia Higgs (1802 - 1877) | about 1802 | She was born in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. |
| Baptism | Rupertia Higgs (1802 - 1877) | 1 February 1802 | She was baptised at Prestbury, Gloucestershire. |
| Death | Rupertia Higgs (1802 - 1877) | 5 August 1877 | She died in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. |
| Probate | Rupertia Higgs (1802 - 1877) | 19 November 1887 | She left £4,233 7s. 5d. to her nephew. |
| Birth | Margaret Elizabeth Furber (1883 - ) | 1883 (first quarter) | Birth was registered in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
| England & Wales Census 1911 | William Besnard Sandes (1867 - 1936) Elizabeth Eva Wilson (1864 - 1949) Sophia Elizabeth Sandes (1906 - 1952) |
1911 | They were living at Hewelsfield, Gloucestershire. |
| England and Wales Census 1861 | Ponsonby Carrique Sandes (1849 - 1918) | 1861 | He was at boarding school at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. |
| Probate | Amelia Sarah Macnamara (1849 - 1937) | 9 February 1938 | She left £10,442 1s to her daughters Eva Maude Sandes and Amy Margaret Sandes |
| Burial | Mary Dorothea Sandes (1730 - 1770) | about 1966 | She is buried at St Helen's Church burial ground, Alveston alongside her husband and three sons. |
| Burial | Frank Sowter Barnwell (1880 - 1938) | about 1938 | He is buried at St Helen's Church burial ground, Alveston alongside his wife and three sons. |