DEFFORD

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
DEFFORD, a chapelry in the parish of St ANDREW, PERSHORE, upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 3 miles (S. W.) from Pershore, containing 347 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £2. 13. 4. The chapel is dedicated to St. James. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Chapelry in Pershore St. Andrew Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish in 1866. Ecclesiastically severed 1865 to help create Defford cum Besford Ecclesiastical Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO917432
3 miles S.W. of Pershore along the A4104
Woodmancote is a hamlet, 1 mile S.W. [57]

Parish Church:
St. James

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1921, Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1921 - *) [25]

Hundred:
Upper Pershore [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Croome D'Abitot; Besford; Birlingham; Eckington; Strensham; Hill Croome; Earls Croome; Severn Stoke [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1540-1965	[5]
	Marriages	1540-1965	[5]
	Burials	1540-1965	[5]
	Banns	1754-1965	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1540-1680, 1683-1812	[27]
	Marriages	1540-1680, 1687-1753	[27]
	Burials	1540-1688, 1683-1812	[27]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1611 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1540-1812

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.James BMSGH microfiche [53]
St. James Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. James : MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1994- Author Farmer, G R (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.
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]

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Churchwardens accounts 1705-95, 1803-1929
Constable list 1706-1826
Vestry minutes 1888-1908, 1910
Confirmation register 1863-1956
Overseers accounts 1782-1817
Surveyors accounts 1856-61
Vestry minutes 1846-88
Copies of parish registers & Bishops transcripts of parish registers
Typescript copy Defford 1540-1682
Copy by Rev.J.Wills 1687-1782
Defford parish register, manuscript copy 1687-1812

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.

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