GREAT COMBERTON

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Comberton Magna

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:
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]
Begin 1612

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

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

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68]
COMBERTON, GREAT : Christenings(Index) 1756-1875 [Microfilm.]   Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973   Author Genealogical Society of Utah (transcriptions)

COMBERTON, GREAT : Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1540-1705, 1721-1964 [Microfilm.]   Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At BMSGH Shop
St.Michael

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St.Michael

A Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]t
St.Michael

At Society of Genealogists [59]
COMBERTON, GREAT (St. Michael) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 10   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 10   Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1990   Author Farmer, G R (transcriptions) Source D: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry

War Memorials:
For the names of those commemorated on a War Memorial at  St. Michael's Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Great Comberton St Michael's Church

For the names of those commemorated on Great Comberton War Memorial see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Great Comberton War Memorial

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]

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.

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]

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