CHURCH HONEYBOURNE

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Church Honeybourne with Poden

Directories:

HONEYBOURNE (CHURCH), a parish in the upper division of the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of WORCESTER, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Chipping-Campden, containing, with Poden, 136 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Cow-Honeybourne, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in-the king's books at £6. 4.4 ½ and in the patronage of Mrs. Williams. The church, dedicated to St. Egwin, has a plain tower surmounted by a spire : it was esteemed the mother church in the Vale of Evesham at the dissolution of the abbey There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Including a chapel at Cow Honeybourne. Cow Honeybourne, in Gloucestershire (Kiftsgate Hundred), enjoyed separate civil identity early in Gloucestershire and was ecclesiastically united early to Church Honeybourne. The union was reaffirmed 1885, so that this parish ecclesiastically was called 'Church Honeybourne with Cow Honeybourne'. Church Honeybourne abolished civilly in 1953 to help create Honeybourne Civil Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP120440
5 miles east of Evesham along the B4035

Parish Church:
St.Ecgwin

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1919, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Gloucester (1919 - *) [25]

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

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Pebworth (Gloucestershire); Mickleton (Gloucestershire); Weston Subedge (Gloucestershire); Aston Subedge (Gloucestershire); Saintbury (Gloucestershire); Bretforton; South Littleton; North & Middle Littleton [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1673-1948	[5]
	Marriages	1560-1986	[5]
	Burials	1673-1922	[5]
	Banns	1759-1807	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1673-1742, 1744-1812	[27]
	Marriages	1673-1742, 1744-58, plus 1816, 1823, 1824, 1832 Marriage licences 1581-1720	[27]
	Burials	1673-1812	[27]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1930-42	[12]

The registers include the parish of Cow Honeybourne

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1614 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]
Transcripts: 1611-39 [27]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1673-1812
	Marriages	1581-1832
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1614-1641; 1660-1661; 1674-1700 (54%)

Register Copies:
Christenings 1614-29, Marriages 1611-39, Burials 1625-26 (BTs) [Typescript.] Society of Genealogists [68]
Christenings 1673-1812 Marriages 1673-1758 Burials 1673-1812 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Cemetery BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Ecgwin BMSGH microfiche [53]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript.] - Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
Cemetery: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry,
1992 - Authors: Farmer, G R & Bushell, L C
St. Ecgwin: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1992 - Authors: Farmer, G R & Bushell, L C

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.com 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]
1851 Gloucestershire Archives

At Society of Genealogists :-
Gloucestershire 1851 census [CD-ROM.] - Published Gloucestershire FHS 2001 - Author: Gloucestershire FHS (comp)
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.)

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1666-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Map of the Manor of Poden 1652

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Register of services 1945-60
Parochial Church Council Accounts 1952-69
Chapel Cow Honeybourne Inclosure award 1778
Chapel Honeybourne Poor Relief Book 1784-1836

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