BOCKLETON

Descriptive Notes:

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]

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 Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1574-1837; Marriages 1575-1812; Burials 1575-1813 (Typescript) - Published , 1967-69 - Author: Toop, F E M et al.
Christenings & Burials1662 1846 1857-71 Marriages 1662-1846 (BTs) Microfilm - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Herefordshire monumental inscriptions index, version 4 [CD-ROM.] - Author: Herefordshire FHS 2005 Society of Genealogists

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:
1841-1901 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.

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 19th March 2008

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