GREAT COMBERTON

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Comberton Magna

Directories:
COMBERTON (GREAT), a parish in the upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 2¾ miles (S. by E.) from Pershore, containing 206 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £10, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Miss Myddleton. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The river Avon flows through this parish.. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO955421
3 miles S.S.E. of Pershore

Parish Church:
St. Michael

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1] [25]

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

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Pershore St Andrew; Wick; Little Comberton; Elmley Castle; Overbury; Kemerton (Gloucestershire); Eckington; Birlingham [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1540-1964	[5]
	Marriages	1558-1964	[5]
	Burials	1541-1964	[5]
	Banns	1754-1803	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1755-1811, 1826-1979	[12]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1756-1875
	Marriages	1755-1885

Register Copies:
Christenings(Index) 1756-1875 [Microfilm] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973 Society of Genealogists [68]
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1540-1705, 1721-1964 [Microfilm] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965 Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Michael BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Michael Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Michael: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 10 - Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1990 - Author: Farmer, G R Society of Genealogists [59]

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]

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Account rolls Mich.1513, 1517, 1518, 1529; Bailiffs Accounts Mich.1527; Rentals Dec.1417, Mich.1627; Schedules of lands [c.1606], 1711; List of heriots 1662; Court rolls Mich.1451 and Easter 1452, Mich.1456-Easter 1457, 1530-3. View of frankpledge 1434-1662 (gaps); List of chief rents 1662, 1891

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers Book 1812-23
Road Accounts 1814-31
Churchwardens accounts 1827-75 Overseers accounts 1829-52

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Great Comberton School
Log book - 1916-47 - Ref: BA 1010

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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Last updated on 27th March 2008

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