BREDON'S NORTON

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Norton by Bredon

Directories:
NORTON by BREDON, a chapelry in the parish of BREDON, middle division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 4½ miles (N.E. by N.) from Tewkesbury, containing 199 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Chapel in Bredon Ancient Parish. It was perhaps a separate parish by 1300 but its separate status was not sustained. It was a separate Civil Parish by 1866 [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO931390
1 mile N.W. of Bredon along the B4080

Parish Church:
There is a chapel of ease to Bredon at Bredon's Norton

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Peculiar of the incumbent [1]

Hundred:
Oswaldslow [15]

Poor Law Union:
Tewkesbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Eckington; Kemerton (Gloucestershire); Bredon; Twyning (Gloucestershire); Strensham [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1813-1962	[5]
	Marriages	1754-1963	[5]
	Burials	1813-1963	[5]
	Banns	1754-1812, 1824-1963	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1824-1978	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1813-1877
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1612-1692

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]
1891 Gloucestershire Archives

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1813-91 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers accounts 1719-1848
Chapel wardens accounts 1832-40

Other Sources:
Bredon Hill and Its Villages - Published 1968 - R.H.Lloyd (1968) Society of Genealogists

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Last updated on 19th March 2008

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