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of the
Birmingham & Midland Society
for Genealogy and Heraldry

BROADWAY

Descriptive Notes:
Broadway, with its wide main street, is often referred to as the 'Jewel of the Cotswolds'. It lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment.

Directories:
BROADWAY, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, being the southern extremity of the county of WORCESTER, 5 miles (S. E.) from Evesham, containing 1382 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of .the Bishop of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £ 10.17. 6, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Miss Eliz. Mills. The church is dedicated to St. Eadburgh. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Catholics. Thomas Hodges, in 1686, gave land for the instruction of poor boys, directing the overplus to be applied in purchasing books and clothes, or in apprenticing; them. In the neighbourhood are quarries of good freestone. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP097362
Broadway is nearly surrounded by the county of Gloucestershire & is 5½ miles S.E. of Evesham

Parish Church:
St. Eadburgha, Snowshill Road, which dates back to the 12th century and St.Michael & All Angels, Church Street built during the 1830s

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Gloucester until circa1840, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester (circa 1840 - *) [25]

Hundred:
Upper Pershore [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Wickhamford; Badsey; Willersey (Gloucestershire); Saintbury (Gloucestershire); Weston sub Edge (Gloucestershire); Chipping Campden (Gloucestershire); Blockley; Snowshill (Gloucestershire); Buckland (Gloucestershire); Childs Wickham (Gloucestershire) [1]

Parish Registers:
Coverage Source
Microform at WLHC Christenings 1541-1970 [5]
Marriages 1539-1966 [5]
Burials 1539-1966 [5]
Banns 1772-1928 [5]
Originals at WRO Marriages 1539-1992 [12]
Banns 1772-1959 [12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1608 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]
Coverage
Parish Registers Births / Christenings 1541-1609; 1701-1875
Marriages 1539-1880
Bishops' Transcripts Births / Christenings 1608-1700 (80%)
Independent or Congregational Births 1801-1837


Register Copies:
Marriages 1539-1812 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1541-1704; Marriages1539-1547, 1555-67 1574-1812; Burials1539-1704 - Authors: Price, R & Bramwell, D (trans.)
St.Michaels & All Angels: Christenings 1541-1966; Marriages & Burials 1539-1966, Banns 1772-1928, Confirmations 1955-65- Published: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994
Christenings 1680-1704, 1718-50 (extracts); Burials 1691-1704, 1714-97 (extracts): in "Wills etc": Documents relating to lands in the possession of the Phillips family of Wiltshire - Author: Phillips, Thomas

Nonconformist:
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre :
Independent: Births 1801-1837; Christenings1801-1837
St Saviours RC: Christenings 1830-1994; Marriages1833-1994; Deaths 1828-1994. Communicants 1831-1837 Confirmations 1836

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Churchyard:
BMSGH
microfiche [53]
MIs at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Worcestershire MIs, Vol.13 [Typescript] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1994 - Authors: Bushell, L & Farmer, G R (trans) Society of Genealogists [59]

St.Michael & All Angels:
BMSGH
microfiche [53] 
MIs atWorcestershire Library and History Centre [51]MIs in the church: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991- Authors: Farmer, G R & Bushell, L G Society of Genealogists [59]

United Reform Church:
BMSGH microfiche [53]
MIs at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Worcestershire MIs, Vol.14[ Typescript] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Authors: Bushell, L & Farmer Society of Genealogists [59]

St.Saviour Roman Catholic:
BMSGH microfiche [53]
MIs at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Worcestershire MIs, Vols.11 & 14 [Typescript] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry- Authors: Bushell, L & Farmer, G R Society of Genealogists [59]

List of graves in St Eadburgha's churchyard (20th century) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Inscriptions on tombstones & memorials, United Reformed Church (1978, transcript) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1539-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Notes of parish church 1864-65
Overseer of the poor account book 1648-95, 1694-1777, 1799-1825
Constable accounts 1696-1723
Churchwardens accounts 1798-1817, 1802-40
Poor rate book 1801
Offertory account book 1862-1908
Surveyors highway account book 1836-7, 1840-3
Rate, private & general account book 1836-49
Confirmation register 1955-65
Terrier & inventory c1932-54, c1933
Settlement certificates, removal order, examinations, population enquiry forms & other papers 1700-1842
Removal orders, examinations, bastardy certificates & other papers 1700-1823
Settlement certificates, bonds of indemnity. Workhouse & other papers from 1651. Examinations, removal orders, bastardy certificates, magistrates orders & other papers 1766-1878
Removal orders, receipts, examinations, powers of attorney & other papers c 1700-1817
Bond of indemnity, bills, examinations & other papers c1739-1873
Bastardy certificates, examinations, removal orders & other papers c1764-1827
Bastardy certificates, examinations, powers of attorney & other papers c1763-1851

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Broadway Infants' C P School
Log book - 1928 - 55 - Ref: BA 4348

Broadway National School - 3rd Division. 
Class register - 1861 - 62 - Ref: BA 7907

Broadway Wesley Sabbath School
Register of teachers & scholars - 1865 - 73 - Ref: BA 8608/24 (vi)

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

Other Sources:
Settlement certificates, removal orders, examinations, bastardy certificates, bonds of indemnity, workhouse & other papers etc. 1651-1842, Overseers' account books 1648-1824, Constables' account book 1696-1723, Churchwardens' account books 1798-1840 etc. [Microfilm.] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994 Society of Genealogists
A history of Broadway (1972?) - Published 1972? -Author: C C Houghton Society of Genealogists


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Last updated on 19th March 2008