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Bristol Archives (formerly Bristol Record Office) [1] was established in 1924. It was the first borough record office in the United Kingdom , since at that time there was only one other local authority record office ( Bedfordshire ) in existence.
The Bristol Record Society is a text publication society which publishes scholarly editions of historical records and texts relating to the history of the City of Bristol. Founded in 1929, it is one of the oldest such societies devoted to the publication of material relating to an individual town or city.
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The Jews Acre, was known by that name, or as 'the Jews Churchyard', until the nineteenth century. For instance, a 1788 lease for 'the Jews church yard', records it as being a property on Brandon Hill adjoining 'Jews Acre'. [4] Both place names suggest that contemporaries understood the field to be the burial ground of the medieval Jewish community.
Parish records for Temple Church, Bristol are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. P.Tem) (online catalogue) including baptism, marriage, burial and burial in woollen registers. The archive also includes records of the churchwardens, charities and vestry. The archive of records for Temple Church is fragmented because the records were kept within the ...
By the time of Domesday the church held three hides of land, which was a sizeable holding for a mere parish church. [6] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 1052 Harold Godwinson took ship to Brycgstow and later in 1062 he took ships from the town to subdue the forces of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn of Wales, indicating the status of the town as a ...