BECKFORD

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
BECKFORD, a parish in the hundred of TIBALDSTONE, county of GLOUCESTER, 6 miles (E. N.-E.) from Tewkesbury, containing, with the hamlets of Bengrave and Grafton, 442 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Ashton under Hill annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £16. 16. l0½ , and in the patronage of the Rev. John Timbrill, D.D. The church, a very ancient structure, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Freestone abounds in the parish. Here was an Alien priory of Augustine canons, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £53. 6. 8. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
A Gloucestershire parish transferred in 1931 to Worcestershire.
Included a chapel at Ashton under Hill, which had separate civil identity early but no separate ecclesiastic identity, hence this parish known ecclesiastically as "Beckford with Ashton under Hill". [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO976358
On the Gloucestershire border of the county, 7 miles S.W. of Evesham on the A46

Parish Church:
St. John the Baptist

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Diocese of Gloucester.[5] [25]

Hundred:
Tibblestone [15] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Winchcombe [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Elmley Castle; Ashton under Hill (Gloucestershire); Dumbleton (Gloucestershire); Alderton (Gloucestershire); Great Washbourne (Gloucestershire); Little Washbourne (Gloucestershire); Alstone (Gloucestershire); Oxenton (Gloucestershire); Teddington; Overbury [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1549-1883	[5]
	Marriages	1573-1973	[5]
	Burials	1538-1925	[5]
	Banns	1768-1812, 1799-1822, 1823-91	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1891-1982	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
1600-1812, 1813-59 Gloucestershire Archives

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1600-1812
	Marriages	1608-1812

Register Copies:
At Gloucestershire Archives [64] :
Christenings, Marriages & Burials1538-1861(extracts) Transcript:
1814-36 Marriages(Index): Gloucestershire FHS

At Society of Genealogists [68] :
Marriages1814-36 Typescript: Gloucestershire FHS Gloucestershire marriages, Vol.18
Marriages(Index) 1607-1700 (BTs) Typescript: Boyd's Marriage Index
Christenings & Burials 1600, 1607, 1620, 1660, 1675 extracts: Collections for Gloucestershire - Author Payne, T, 1861 ]
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1600-97 (BT extracts): in "Wills etc": Documents relating to lands in the possession of the Phillips family of Wiltshire - Author Phillips, Thomas
Marriages 1814-36: Gloucestershire marriages, vol. 18 [Typescript.] - Published , 1986 - Author: Gloucestershire FHS (trans.)

Nonconformist:
Methodist Circuit Records  Christenings1907- 65 Gloucestershire Archives
Roman Catholic Chapel  Christenings1817-50 (Manuscript) - Published , 1919 -Author: Henson, E (trans.) Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
-1719 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.
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- 1901 Gloucestershire Archives
Gloucestershire 1851 Census index & transcription, vol. 14 : HO 107/1971 - [Winchcombe registration district] Guiting & Cleeve sub-districts: Index to the 1851 Census for Gloucestershire [Microfiche.] - Published Gloucestershire FHS, 1998 - Author: Gloucestershire FHS Society of Genealogists

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court rolls - scattered dates 1474-1824 Extract of fines and amercements [c.1618], [c.1627], [c.1632]; Rental for the manor, belonging to the college at [Fotheringhay, Northants [1528/29]; Rentals: Lands in Beckford and Grafton and [Bangrove both in Beckford [1455],1624,1631; Terrier: 'A true note conteyning all the acres of arrable land, medows, pastures, commons within the Lordshippe of Beckford' [1542]

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Beckford C E Primary School
Admission register - 1876 - 1912 - Ref: BA 4243; 1913 - 65 - Ref: BA 4549
Log Book - 1944 - 65 - Ref: BA 4549
Log books (2 Vols) - 1892 - 1944 - Ref: BA 4243

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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