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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:
At BMSGH Shop
St.James
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St. James
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. James
At Society of Genealogists [59]
DEFFORD (St. James) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 [Typescript.] IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1994 Author Farmer, G R (transcription.) Source D: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
War Memorials:
For
the names of those commemorated on a War
Memorial at St. James's Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Defford
St James's Church
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]
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.
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]
© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
Comments, additions, corrections etc to Arthur Lewis
Last updated on 11th December 2011