Gloucestershire Record Office References to Black & Asian People, pre-1939
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| Place | Reference | Date | Content | Notes |
| Bisley | P47 IN 1/1 | 22 November 1603 | John Davies ‘ye black’ was buried. | Difficult to be sure that ‘black’ refers to his skin. |
| Arlingham | P23 IN 1/3 | 4 December 1668 | Hannah, daughter of Thomas Liston, a Barbados merchant was baptised | most probably white. |
| Great Badminton | P32 CW 2/1 | 1678 | ‘Gave unto 3 men that came from Barbadus: 8d’ | probably white indentured labourers returning to England. |
| Great Badminton | P32 CW 2/1 | 1678 | ‘Gave unto 5 men that had been 3 years in slavery: 1s 8d’ | could be black slaves; could be white sailors captured by Barbary pirates & enslaved in N.Africa or Turkey |
| Driffield | P120 IN 1/1 | 5 June 1687 | Jacob the servant of George Hanger Esq ‘a moore’ was baptised. | |
| Great Barrington | P36 IN 1/2 | 9 September 1705 | George Tudor, ‘a native of the Kingdom of Golconda', was baptised. | Golconda was the former name of Hyderabad. |
| Newnham on Severn | Q/SO4 1714-24 | Easter 1715 | John Prince ‘a black boy lately bought into England’ was apprenticed to John Trigge, Attorney at Law. | |
| Nympsfield | P234 IN 1/1 | 31 December 1719 | Daniel ‘a black stranger’ buried | |
| English Bicknor | Dean Forest Mercury21/9/84 | 6 November 1721 | Charles [Ashume] ' a black servant to Mr George Wyrall who departed this life…aged about 24'. | Gravestone inscription - no reference to colour in parish register. |
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