Records of Excommunications and Out of Wedlock Births in the Early 1600s

[Larry Vick]

A VICK researcher in Australia wrote a letter in 1981 in which she said the following about a trip back to England ,“we were over there last year went to Gloucester Records Office and were privileged to be allowed to go through all the bishop's manuscripts back to the early 1600s.” 

She said that she found “Two of the Vick girls were excommunicated because they had bastard children, although these babies were baptised.  One of them made respectable a little later as her marriage was registered.”

Is there some online source I could check to determine the dates of the two excommunications or the dates of females with the surname VICK who had out of wedlock births in the early 1600s in Gloucestershire or England ?

Regards,

Larry

[Sandee]

Hi Larry
Gloucester records Offoce is online, they have an online database that you can search. But I doubt that is online itself.
You can also put up a post to request someone to have a look for you if they are visting the records office. some kind soul usually volunteers.
I am not going till September though. Good luck.
Sandie

[Larry Vick]

Sandie,

Thanks!

Regards,

Larry