ASHTON UNDER HILL

Index
Status
Location
Parish Church
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Hundred
Poor Law Union
Adjoining Parishes
Parish Registers
Bishops' Transcripts
International Genealogical Index (IGI)
Register Copies
Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents
Census Records
Manorial Records
Schools Records
Other Sources
Directories

Status:
Civil Parish [25]
A chapel in Beckford Ancient Parish. It had separate civil identity early but no separate ecclesiastic identity. Transferred from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire in 1931 [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO997377
5 miles S.W. of Evesham along the A4184 & A46

Parish Church:
St. Barbara

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Gloucester [11]

Hundred:
Partly in Upper Tewkesbury but chiefly in Tibaldstone, Gloucestershire [25] [44]

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Elmley Castle; Sedgeberrow; Dumbleton (Gloucestershire); Beckford (Gloucestershire); Overbury [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1596-1981	[5]
	Marriages	1586-1972	[5]
	Burials	1586-1982	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1823-1943 (13 certs), 1944-47 (2 applications & 2 certs), 1955-62 (19 certs), 1962-72 (3 certs)	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
1606-1812; 1813-59 Gloucestershire Archives

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1595-1875

Register Copies:
Transcripts: Christenings, Marriages & Burials1538-1861 (extracts) Gloucestershire Archives

At Society of Genealogists :

ASHTON UNDER HILL : Christenings & Burials 1606, 1618, 1685, 1691, 1700 extracts from transcripts: Collections for Gloucestershire   IN: Collections for Gloucestershire   Published : Thomas Payne, 1861 

ASHTON UNDER HILL : Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1606-1700 (BT extracts): in "Wills etc": Documents relating to lands in the possession of the Phillips family of Wiltshire   IN: "Wills etc": Documents relating to lands in the possession of the Phillips family of Wiltshire Published , Nd.   Author Phillips, Thomas 

ASHTON UNDER HILL : Marriages 1814-37: Gloucestershire marriages, vol. 18 [Typescript.]   IN: Gloucestershire marriages, vol. 18   Published , 1986   Author Gloucestershire FHS (trans.)   Source D: Gloucestershire FHS

Marriages(Index) extracts 1586-1778: Boyd's marriage index - Published , 1925-55 - Authors: Roe, E A [Typescript.] & Boyd, Percival ed. (Also at Gloucestershire Archives

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Plan of churchyard annex (1928) Worcestershire Record Office [51]
Plan of extension of churchyard (1950, photocopy); Key to the plan (1950) Worcestershire Record Office [51]
-1791 Bigland Gloucestershire Archives

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:
1851-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1841-51 Gloucestershire Archives

At Society of Genealogists :
Gloucestershire 1851 Census index & transcription, vol. 24 : HO 107/2044; HO 107/2074; HO 107/2076 (parts) - North East Gloucestershire [parishes in cross county districts - Evesham, Stratford on Avon & Shipston on Stour registration districts]: Index to the 1851 Census for Gloucestershire [Microfiche.] - Published Gloucestershire FHS, 1999
1851 Worcestershire census index HO 107/2044 : Evesham registration district - Gloucestershire part [Microfiche.] (1997) A F Friend
Worcestershire 1891 census returns: Evesham registration district RG 12/2335-2337 [Microfilm.] London Public Record Office 2003

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Rent book for manor of Beckford 1624

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Ashton under Hill C P School
Log book - 1898 - 1955 - Ref: BA 5803
Log book [microfilm] - 1898 - 1955 - Ref: BA 5755

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

Other Sources:
"The village of my childhood" ; Author: Fred Archer; Published Gloucester Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd 1989 Society of Genealogists
"Wills etc" : Documents relating to lands in the possession of the Phillips family of Wiltshire - Author: Thomas Phillips Society of Genealogists

Directories:
ASHTON under HILL, a parish partly in the upper division of the hundred of TEWKESBURY, but chiefly in the hundred of TIBALDSTONE, county of GLOUCESTER, 8 miles (E.N.E.) from Tewkesbury, containing 301 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Beckford, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church is dedicated to St. Barbara. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 4th February 2012

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