BOCKLETON

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Township of 'Bockleton' in Worcestershire, including in Hereford (Broxash Hundred) the hamlet of Hampton Charles.
Hampton Charles became a separate Civil Parish in 1866 in Hereford, so that 'Bockleton' was entirely Worcestershire thereafter.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO593614
4 miles south of Tenbury
Hampton Charles is a hamlet 1 mile south in the Herefordshire portion of the parish. [57]

Parish Church:
St.Michael

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Diocese of Hereford [25]

Hundred:
Partly in Broxash, Herefordshire but chiefly in Upper Doddingtree, Worcestershire [44] [11] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Tenbury; Kyre Magna; Stoke Bliss (Herefordshire); Thornbury (Herefordshire); Hatfield (Herefordshire); Pudleston (Herefordshire); Laysters (Herefordshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1574-1885	[5]
	Marriages	1574-1850	[5]
	Burials	1574-1963	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1574-1837	[27]
	Marriages	1625-88, 1754-1812	[27]
	Burials	1789-1813	[27]

The registers are said to include entries for Hampton Charles [5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1574-1877
	Marriages	1575-1850

Register Copies:
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St Michael Baptisms and Burials 1574-1885, Marriages 1574-1850

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
BOCKLETON : Christenings 1574-1837, Marriages 1575-1812, Burials 1575-1813 [Typescript.] Published 1967-69   Author Toop, F E M et al. (trans.)

BOCKLETON : Christenings & Burials 1662, 1846, 1857-71, Marriages 1662-1846 (BTs) [Microfilm.]   Published Salt Lake City, UT (USA) : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978   Author Hereford CRO 
 
Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Herefordshire monumental inscriptions index, version 4 [CD-ROM.] - Author: Herefordshire FHS 2005 Society of Genealogists

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:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court Rolls 1658, 1669, 1680, 1712, 1729, 1773, 1783

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Parochial duty book 1813-57
Vestry minutes 1868-91

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Bockleton C E School
Admission registers (3 vols) - 1876 - 1962 - Ref: BA 3764
Log books (3 vols) - 1882 -91, 1900 - 14, 1938 - 62 - Ref: BA 3724

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

Directories:
BOCKLETON, a parish partly in the hundred of BROXASH, county of HEREFORD, but chiefly in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 5 miles (S.) from Tenbury, containing, with the hamlet of Hampton-Charles, 385 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of John Bleke Lye, Esq., M. D. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. A school, in which about one hundred and seventy boys and girls are instructed, is supported partly by subscription, but chiefly by the Rev T. E. Miller. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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