Bateman/Batman/Battman
Local Ones  for the Kingswood area of Bristol (C15th-C20th). Details on other Gloucestershire families.
C 19th families migrated to Risca in South Wales

 

Bush - C17th Bitton, Gloucs. Only known family member Grace

 

Garland - Local ONS for the Mangotsfield & Bristol areas

 

Harris - C18th Bitton, Gloucs.

 

Haskins - C18th/C19th Bristol

 

Higgs - C18th Stapleton, Bristol. Only known family member Susannah who married into the Monks family

 

Holbrook - C18th Bristol area + Link to worldwide Ons Only known family member Harriet

 

Jennings - C18th Bisley, Gloucs. Only known family member Grace

 

Legg - C18th Stapleton, Bristol

 

Maynard - C16th North Stoke, Gloucs.

 

Monks C19th Stapleton, near Bristol + Local Ons for Bristol

 

Mordecai - C18th/C19th Glamorgan, Wales & Bristol. Only known family member Alice

 

Osborne - C18th Bristol

 

Phipps - C18th Bitton, Gloucs., + Local ONS

 

Rogers - C18th Bitton, Gloucs.

 

Wilcox - C16th Kelston, Gloucs.

 

KINGSWOOD & BITTON - GENERAL LOCAL HISTORY

The Kingswood miners were a rough and tough lot. John WESLEY made a name for himself in the early days of Methodism.

The following is extracted from Bristol and Avon FHS Journal "Parish, Chapelry and Hamlet: The Bitton Area and Its Records" by M. McGREGOR (Asst. Archivist, BRO):

Parish of Bitton: mother church of St. Mary.
Within the parish: Chapelries of Hanham and Oldland, where baptisms and burials could be performed (marriages to 1754 only). One register covered both chapelries, entries being marked 'at Hanham' or 'at Oldland'.
Later elevated to status of independent parishes which led to individual records. The old register was not split, but passed to Hanham. Hanham became a separate parish in 1844.

Hamlets of Hanham and Oldland had separate civil identity since 1601. Ecclesiastical parishes not established for a further two hundred years. St Anne was not formed until 1861. As a chapelry of Bitton its registers run from 1813, but in combination with Hanham from 1572; civilly distinct since Tudor times.

Bishop Transcripts: to 1813 are held at Bristol RO. Bitton and its chapelries are entered on the same sheet. Parish lay in the rural deanery of Hawkesbury, which until 1826 formed part of Gloucester Diocese. BT's sent to Gloucester. From 1836 Hawkesbury was in the Bristol Archdeanery, and records were transferred to Bristol. Post-1813 BT's bound into annual volumes with other Gloucs. parishes remain in Gloucester.

Holy Trinity, Kingswood consecrated in 1820.
Christ Church, Hanham consecrated 1841.
St Barnabas, Warmley 1855.
Ref: ELLACOMBE, Rev. H T "The History of the Parish of Bitton in the County of Gloucester" Exeter, 1881.

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Other Background Reading:

- "History of Kingswood Forest" Rev. BRIANE, writing of the old families of Bitton mentions their unusually large and giant-like proportions and the old saying 'He was one of BATMAN's gurt uns'.

- "Annals of Kingswood" & "Killed in a Coalpit" by D. P. LINDEGAARD.
The "Kingswood Index" as held by the same researcher.