BAYTON

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
BAYTON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 1¾ mile (S.E. by S.) from Cleobury-Mortimer, containing 466 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Mamble, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £5. 0. 2½ endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Abolished ecclesiastically in 1669 to help create Mamble with Bayton Ecclesiastical Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO692733
On the Shropshire border of the county, 9 miles west of Kidderminster
Clows Top is a hamlet 1 mile S.E. of Bayton, partly in this parish & partly in Mamble. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Bartholomew, Bayton
Also Clows Top Mission Rooms at O.S. Ref: SO713713

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Salop, Diocese of Hereford. Bayton was transferred from the Diocese of Hereford to the Diocese of Worcester in 1919 [5] [25]

Hundred:
Lower Doddingtree [11]

Poor Law Union:
Cleobury Mortimer [3]

Adjoining Parishes:
Cleobury Mortimer (Shropshire); Rock; Mamble; Neen Sollars (Shropshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1564-1964	[5]
	Marriages	1564-1964	[5]
	Burials	1591-1965	[5]
	Banns	1754-1823, 1824-1964	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	1564-1812	[27]
Originals at WRO	Marriages	1564-1995	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
At Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1564-1877
	Marriages	1564-1885
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	? - 1638; 1661-1863
	Marriages	1661-1843

Register Copies:
Christenings & Burials 1661-1858, Marriages 1661-1843 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah 1978 Society of Genealogists [68]
Christenings(Index) 1710-1877 - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah 1974 Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Bartholomew BMSGH microfiche [53]
St Bartholomew Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

At Society of Genealogists :-
MIs: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript.] - Author: Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
St. Bartholomew: MIs : Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16 - Published Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 1998 - Author Bewdley Historical Research

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 51 1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851-1901 Shropshire Archives
1851-1901 Ludlow Library
Shropshire 1891 census returns: Cleobury Mortimer registration district RG 12/2091-2092 [Microfilm.] - London Public Record Office 2003 Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1899 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Chief rent roll 1731

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Bayton School
Log book - 1871 - 1910 - Ref: BA 6136

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

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Last updated on 19th March 2008

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