LITTLE COMBERTON 

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Comberton Parva

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO967427
2½ miles S.E. of Pershore

Parish Church:
St. Peter

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

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

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Wick; Bricklehampton; Elmley Castle; Great Comberton [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1542-1964	[5]
	Marriages	1540-1964	[5]
	Burials	1585-1964	[5]
	Banns	1755-1812 (some)	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1540-1627	[27]
		1540-1812	[27] [21]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1824-[1919]	[12]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1757-1875
	Marriages	1754-1885

Register Copies:
Marriages 1540-1812 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust record Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :
Christenings 1543-56, 1565-69, 1591-1964, Marriages 1540-1690, 1755-1964, banns 1755-1806, Burials 1586-1728, 1737-1964 [Microfilm] - Published: Genealogical Society of Utah
Marriages 1540-49, 1560-1705, 1715-16, 1726, 1736-1812: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910 - Author: Phillimore, W P W ed.
Marriages(Index) 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Peter BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Peter Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Peter: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 10 - Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1990 - Author Hemsley-Hall, H S (trans.) 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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1586-1866 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers accounts 1695-1757
Vestry minutes & accounts 1774-1916
and
Overseers of the poor 1652-1807, vestry minutes & accounts 1774-1827 [Microfilm.] Society of Genealogists

Schools Records:
A handlist of the records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

Directories:
COMBERTON (LITTLE), a parish in the upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 2½ miles (S.E. by S.) from Pershore, containing 172 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £9. 0. 2½ and in the patronage of Col. Davies. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 5th February 2010

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