ARELEY KINGS

Index
Descriptive Notes
Status
Location
Parish Church
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Hundred
Poor Law Union
Adjoining Parishes
Parish Registers
Bishops' Transcripts
International Genealogical Index (IGI)
Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents
War Memorials
Census Records
Search Services (Fee paying)
Manorial Records
Parish Records on microfilm
Schools Records
Directories

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Areley Regis, King's Areley and Lower Arely [11] [44]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel in Martley Ancient Parish. A separate parish by 1535 although there are 17th century references to its continued dependence. Abolished civilly in 1933, part to Astley Ancient Parish & part to Stourport Rural District & Civil Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO802710
Areley Kings is a village in the Severn Valley, 1 mile S.W. of Stourport-on-Severn on the A451, the River Severn forming the boundary between Areley Kings and Stourport
Dunley and Oakhampton are 1 mile S.W. Coney Green is ½ mile N.W. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Bartholomew

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1]

Hundred:
Upper Doddingtree [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Lower Mitton, Hartlebury, Astley, Abberley, Rock & Ribbesford [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1539-1919	[5]
	Marriages	1539-1941	[5]
	Burials	1539-1893	[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1608 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1539-1835
	Marriages	1539-1895
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1608-1700 (54%)

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St. Bartholomew

At Society of Genealogists [59]
ARELEY KINGS : Monumental Inscriptions: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript.]   IN: Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1   Published , Nd.   Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)

ARELEY KINGS (St. Bartholomew) : Monumental Inscriptions   Published 2009   Author Morris, Brian (comp.)   Author Llewellyn, Francesca (comp.)   Source D: F Llewellyn

War Memorials:
For the names of those included on a war memorial at  St. Bartholomew's Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Areley Kings St Bartholomew's Church

For the names of those included on a war memorial at  Areley Kings School see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Areley Kings School 

Census Records:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit. 

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses.  Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
 
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1893 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Areley: Court roll 1753-78

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Notes re members of Riley family of Manchester 1787-90

Schools Records:
A handlist of the records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found at here.

Directories:
ARELY-KING'S, or LOWER ARELY, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, ¾ of a mile (S. W. by W.) from Stourport, containing 358 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £9, and in the patronage of the Rector of Hartley. The church, which is situated on an eminence, whence there is a remarkably fine and extensive prospect, is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. In the burial-ground is a rude sepulchral monument, composed of oblong square stones, piled on each other, and bearing a quaint rhyming distich, importing that a person named Sir Harry lies interred beneath it. Who Sir Harry was, has not been satisfactorily ascertained; but an affecting story is related of an individual who was driven into seclusion here, from the loss of an only female child, that was drowned by falling from his arms, as he held her at a window, into a moat beneath, and who is supposed to have been interred here. At Redstone Ferry, on the river Severn, which forms a boundary of this parish, is a very high rock, in the side of which was excavated a hermitage, consisting of a chapel with an altar and some apartments: over the altar was painted a figure of an arch-bishop saying mass; in 1736, several human bodies, supposed to have been those of the hermits, were discovered. Layamon, author of a poetical Chronicle of British History, from Brute to Cadwallader, who states himself to have been a priest residing at Erenlege on the Severn, and who lived in the latter part of the twelfth century, is said to have been born here. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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