CHILDSWICKHAM

Descriptive Notes:
Ecclesiastically renamed Childswyckham in 1973 [79]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Transferred from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire in 1931 [5]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP074384
2 miles N.W. of Broadway
Murcott is a hamlet 1¼ miles N.W. [11]

Parish Church:
St.Mary

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Cheltenham & Diocese of Gloucester. [1] [25] [79]

Hundred:
Lower Kiftsgate [45]

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [79]

Adjoining Parishes:
Wickhamford; Broadway; Buckland (Gloucestershire); Aston Somerville (Gloucestershire); Hinton on the Green (Gloucestershire); Bengeworth [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1609-1950	[5]
	Marriages	1560-1838	[5]
	Burials	1552-1911	[5]
	Banns	1824-[1911]	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1755-[78]	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
1639-1812, 1813-59 Gloucestershire Archives

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1600-1875
	Marriages	1813-38

Register Copies:
At Gloucestershire Archives :-
Marriages 1837-1977
Ts: Marriages 1560-1812
Index: Marriages 1560-1812 Roe Marriage Index - Brides & Grooms
GFHS marriage index: 1813-37

Marriages 1560-1812 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Marriages 1560-1812: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 6 - Gloucestershire, vol. 4 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1898
Marriages 1813-37: Gloucestershire marriages, vol. 18 [Typescript.] - Published , 1987 - Author: Gloucestershire FHS (trans)
Marriages (Index) 1560-1812: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.]- Published , 1925-55 - Authors: Roe, E A & Boyd, Percival ed.
Christenings (1600-01, 1606-07?) 1609-1950, Marriages 1560-62, 1609-51, 1655-56, 1663-1838, Burials 1552-53, 1609-1911, banns 1755-79? 1824-1912 [Microfilm.]- Published Worcester Worcestershire Record Office, 2001

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
BMSGH microfiche [53]
St. Mary the Virgin: 1658-1981: Gloucestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 9 [Typescript.]- Published , 1985 - Author: McDonogh, R (trans.) Society of Genealogists [59]
- 1872 Bigland Gloucestershire Archives

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 Gloucestershire Archives
1851-1901 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

At Society of Genealogists :-
Gloucestershire 1851 Census index & transcription, vol. 24 : HO 107/2044; HO 107/2074; HO 107/2076 (parts) - North East Gloucestershire [parishes in cross county districts - Evesham, Stratford on Avon & Shipston on Stour registration districts]: Index to the 1851 Census for Gloucestershire [Microfiche.] - Published Gloucestershire FHS, 1999 - Author: Gloucestershire FHS (comp)
Worcestershire 1851 census index HO 107/2044 : Evesham registration district - Gloucestershire part [Microfiche.] - Published , 1997 - Author: Friend, A F
Worcestershire 1891 census returns: Evesham registration district RG 12/2335-2337 [Microfilm.] Published London Public Record Office, 2003

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court books 1779-1829

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Churchwardens accounts 1728-1894
Overseers of the poor accounts 1812-36
Highway survey accounts 1817-37
Vestry Meeting Minute book 1846-1923
Wharton's Charity A/c 1853-70
Parish Council Accounts 1895-1940
Church account book 1903-47

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Childswickham County Primary School
Log books (7 vols.) - 1863-1945 - Ref: BA 2514
Log books (including loose papers, statements of account, rules of management and papers re Parents' Association) - 1945-81 - Ref: BA 8829

Childswickham First School (formerly Childswickham C.P. School)
Admission register - 1920-81 - Ref: BA 8920/1(i)
Infants' Dept. attendance registers - 1977-81 - Ref: BA 8920/1(ii)
Juniors' Dept. attendance registers - 1977-81 - Ref: BA 8920/1(ii)
Punishment book - 1945-65 - Ref: BA 8920/2

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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