BMSGH HomeBROADWAY
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.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]
:-
BROADWAY
: Christenings 1541-1704, Marriages 1539-1547, 1555-67, 1574-1812,
Burials
1539-1704 [Manuscript.] Published
, Nd. Author Price,
R (trans.) Author Bramwell,
D (trans.)
BROADWAY
(St. Michael & All Angels) : Christenings 1541-1966, Marriages
& Burials
1539-1966, Banns
1772-1928, Confirmations 1955-65, 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 Salt Lake City
: Genealogical Society of
Utah, 1994 Source S:
J L Lampitt.
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:
Church of
England and Non-conformist
At BMSGH Shop
ChurchyardSt.
Michael & All Angels
United Reformed church
St. Saviour RC church
Cemetery
Churchyard
St Michael and All Angels
St Saviour Roman Catholic
United Reform Church
At Worcestershire
Library and History Centre [51]
Churchyard
St.
Michael & All Angels
United Reformed church
St. Saviour RC church
List of graves in St Eadburgha's churchyard (20th century)
Inscriptions on tombstones & memorials, United Reformed Church
(1978, transcript)
BROADWAY (Churchyard) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 [Typescript.] IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1994 Author Bushell, L (trans.) Author Farmer, G R (trans.) Source D: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
BROADWAY
(St. Michael & All Angels) : Monumental Inscriptions in the
church:
Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.]
IN: Worcestershire
monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 Published
Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for
Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991 Author
Farmer, G
R Author Bushell,
L G Source D:
BMSGH
BROADWAY (St. Saviour RC church) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 14 [Typescript.] IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 14 Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, Nd. Author Bushell, L (trans.) Author Farmer, G R (trans.) Acc. no. 82716 Source D: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
War Memorials:
For the names of those commemorated on Broadway War Memorial see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Broadway War Memorial
For the names of those commemorated on a War Memorial at St.Michael & All Angels Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Broadway St Michael and All Angels Church
For the names of those commemorated on a War Memorial at St Eadburgha's Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Broadway St Eadburgha's Church
For the names of those commemorated on a Memorial marking the site of a Whitley bomber aircraft crash see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Broadway Tower Bomber Crash
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]
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 IN: Broadway : a 1000 years of history 972-1972 (cover) Published 1972? Author Houghton, C C Source D: Brooks-Davies Collection. Society of Genealogists
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]
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