ALDERMINSTER

Descriptive Notes:
The spelling Aldermarston is sometimes found. The massive church tower is 700 years old. The village has been cut in two by the busy Stratford to Oxford road. [4]

Directories:
ALDERMINSTER, a parish partly in the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, but chiefly in the upper division of the hundred of PEHSHORE, being a detached portion of the county of WORCESTER, surrounded by Warwickshire, 5 miles (S. S. E.) from Stratford upon, Avon, containing 443 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £7, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a curious cruciform edifice, having a low tower; the nave is in the Norman style of architecture. A recently constructed rail-road, from Stratford upon Avon to Moreton in the Marsh, passes through the village. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
A detached portion of Worcestershire surrounded by Warwickshire, transferred from Worcestershire to Warwickshire in 1931. [44] [11] [25] [5]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP230486
Five miles S.E. of Stratford-upon-Avon on the A3400

Parish Church:
St.Mary & the Holy Cross

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1963, when transferred to the Diocese of Coventry. [1] [25]

Hundred:
Partly in Upper Oswaldslow but chiefly in Upper Pershore [11] [44] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Stratford on Avon [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Atherstone-on-Stour (Warwickshire); Loxley (Warwickshire); Ettington (Warwickshire); Tredington; Whitchurch (Warwickshire) & Preston-on-Stour (Gloucestershire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1613-1812	[27] [20]

Original registers are held at Warwickshire Record Office

Banns:
1823-1954 Warwickshire Record Office

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]
1611-40 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI): [19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1656-60; 1701-1877
	Marriages	1613-1842
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1611-1700 (70%)

Register Copies:
Christenings1651-1936 Marriages1651-1981 Burials1651-1937 Warwickshirewickshire Record Office [66]
Christenings1628-1812 Marriages1651-1812 Burials1650-1812 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office
Marriages1613-1812 [PHIL 1]; Christenings & Burials 1611-1688 Birmingham Central Library [4]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :
Marriages (Index)1651-75 [Boyd]
Marriages 1613-41, 1651-1812: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 22 - Worcestershire, vol. 1 [CD-ROM] Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1901
Marriages (Index) 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.]
St. Mary & the Holy Cross: [Typescript.] Author: Page, Pauline et al. (trans.)
St. Mary & the Holy Cross: Warwickshirewickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 20 [Typescript.] (1989)Author Alderminster WI

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St Mary & the Holy Cross BMSGH microfiche [53]
St Mary & the Holy Cross (Warwickshirewickshire monumental inscriptions, vol.20) Society of Genealogists [59]

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1841 1901 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851-91 Warwickshirewickshire Record Office [66]
1851 Birmingham Central Library
1851-1891 1901 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office
Warwickshire 1891 census returns: Stratford on Avon registration district RG 12/2476-2479 [Microfilm.] Published London Public Record Office 2003 Society of Genealogists

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Extent [16th cent.]

---

© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
Comments, additions, corrections etc to Arthur Lewis
Last updated on 19th March 2008

---