ASHTON UNDER HILL

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 :
Marriages 1814-37: Gloucestershire marriages, vol. 18 [Typescript.] - Published , 1986 - Author: Gloucestershire FHS (trans.)
Christenings & Burials 1606, 1618, 1685, 1691, 1700 extracts from transcripts: Collections for Gloucestershire - Published : Thomas Payne, 1861
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:
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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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:
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 2010

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