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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Wheatenhurst Registration District from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "The district contains 14 parishes, and is divided into Haresfield and Frampton sub-districts. Acres: 24,471. Poor rates in 1863: £3,984. Population in 1851: 7,987; in 1861: 7,813. Houses: 1,721. Marriages in 1863: 34; births: 226, of which 12 were illegitimate; deaths: 116,of which 40 were at ages under 5 years, and 9 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60: 422; births: 2,497; deaths: 1,489. The places of worship, in 1851, were 15 of the Church of England, with 4,036 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 420 [sittings]; 2 of Baptists, with 220 [sittings]; 4 of Wesleyans, with 835 [sittings]; and 1 undefined, with 50 [sittings]. The schools were 18 public day-schools, with 918 scholars; 14 private day-schools, with 222 [scholars]; and 18 Sunday schools, with 1,165 [scholars]. The workhouse is in Eastington."
The district was abolished 1 April 1937 to become part of the Gloucester Rural Registration District.
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Brett Langston's list of Registration Districts in Gloucestershire will lead to specific parishes with dates.
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