BADSEY

Descriptive Notes:
Badsey is a large, working village in the Vale of Evesham. Within the same parish is the smaller village of Aldington [75]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel to Evesham Abbey. A separate parish from the Dissolution. Included the hamlet of Aldington, which was a separate Civil Parish in 1866. Not separate ecclesiastically, hence this parish ecclesiastically called 'Badsey with Aldington' [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP071431
In the Vale of Evesham, 2 miles east of Evesham

Parish Church:
St.James, High St, Badsey

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1]

Hundred:
Upper Blackenhurst [11] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [3]

Adjoining Parishes:
Offenham; Bretforton; Willersey (Gloucestershire); Broadway; Wickhamford; Bengeworth; Evesham All Saints [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1949	[5]
	Marriages	1538-1963	[5]
	Burials	1538-1906	[5]
	Banns	1755-86	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1824-78	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1614 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1538-1877
	Marriages	1538-1876

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings(Index) 1538-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah
Marriages 1538-80, 1587-1665, 1686, 1697-1708, 1733: Collections for Gloucestershire - Published 1861- Author Payne, Thomas
Marriages(Index)1539-1733 [Boyd] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.
See also website www.badsey.net listed under other sources below

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.James BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.James Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Transcript: Survey of Burial Registers, Interments & Monumental Inscriptions at St James July 2002 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [27]
St. James Worcestershire MIs, Vol.7 - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1989 Society of Genealogists [59]
See website www.badsey.net listed under other sources below

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:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1841-1901 [CD-ROM] The Badsey Society 2003 Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1538-1906 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Names of those taking protestation 10.3.1641
Notes on parsonage land & church 1785-1812
Burial fees-Manor farm 1813-1906
Printed churchwardens accounts 1525-71
Churchwardens, 'surveyors' constables & overseers accounts (Print GR only) 1525-1795
Churchwardens, surveyors, constables of overseers accounts 1783-1825
Churchwardens & overseers accounts 1801
Poor relief assessments and vestry meeting minutes 1821-38
Churchwardens accounts 1833-66
Vestry meeting minutes (inc Churchwardens accounts) & Belfrey minutes 1844-90
Churchwardens accounts 1898-1902 Vestry & joint vestry & parish meetings minutes 1899-1902

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 here.

Other Sources:
A brief history of Badsey & Aldington - Sparrow, T C - The Badsey Society Society of Genealogists
Excellent website at www.badsey.net/. It contains MIs, censuses from 1841 to 1901 - cross indexed and extensive parish register information, all of which is indexed.

Directories:
BADSEY, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of WORCESTER, 2¼ miles (E. by S.) from Evesham, containing, with the hamlet of Aldington, 421 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishop of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 8, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. James. The navigable river Avon runs along the border of the parish, and receives here a small brook, which in its course turns several mills, including a silkmill. There is a small endowed school for the instruction of poor boys. Within the limits of the parish are some mineral springs, but their properties are not thoroughly known. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 5th February 2010

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