Church Records
Parish records for Avening church date back to 1557 and the following are available to search at Gloucester Archives:
Baptism: 1557-1875
Marriages: 1557-1893
Burials: 1557-1992
The roll of honour on the War Memorial in the church is detailed below. Our former archivist, Fred Vening, has researched these casualties and compiled a short history of each. He has also extracted details of Avening residents from the 1841-1911 censuses. Transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers back to 1557 are now complete.
Roll of Honour
Names recorded on the Roll of Honour inside the church:
First World War
(Names are listed chronologically by the date of their death)
Frederick R POLLOCK
Frederick J FLETCHER
William C RICHINGS
John H BRIDGEMAN
Martin V POLLOCK
Richard AYRES
Hubert V IND
Charles FLETCHER
Charles SMITH
Samuel FLETCHER
Ralph J DEE
George NEWMAN
Jesse W ROBINS
Frank LOCKE
Albert H CUFF
Ernest COOKE
Arthur C STRATFORD
Albert AYRES
Percy SHARP
Joshua FORD
Alfred W RISBY
George J R BLACKWELL
William FREEMAN
Arthur KING
Samuel LUKER
George HILL
Hubert C AYRES
Albert H CHIPP
Rowland FOWLES
Augustus CLAPTON
Harold H NEWMAN
Charles NURDING
Charles ELDRIDGE
Frederick TOWNSEND
Percy HILL
Frederick TANNER
George DICKERSON
Barnet PAYNE
Adolphus W SHARP
George W HICKS
Walter IND
William G TANNER
Second World War
(Names listed alphabetically)
Joseph L FLETCHER
James P A C GRAHAM
Percy C HILL
Robert W PEARCE
Percy N PORTER
Frank C RICHINGS
Arthur ROBINS
Kenneth J ROBINS
Robert A N STEVENSON
Donald WHITE
