DODDENHAM

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
DODDENHAM, a chapelry in the parish of KNIGHTWICK, lower division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 7¼ miles (W. by N.) from Worcester, containing 252 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to St. Andrew. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel to Worcester Priory but a separate parish at the Dissolution. Abolished ecclesiastically circa 1665 to help create Knightwick with Doddenham Ecclesiastical Parish.[25]

Location:
7 miles west of Worcester on the A44

Parish Church:
Doddenham and Knightwick are separated by the River Teme. Both parish churches, St Andrew at Doddenham & St Mary at Knightwick, were pulled down in the 19th century. A new St Mary's was built in 1856 on the north side of the river to serve both parishes. To the south of the river the old St Mary's church site was used to build a mortuary chapel in 1879.
O.S. Ref:
St.Mary, Knightwick SO734560
Site of St.Andrew, Doddenham SO752563
Mortuary Chapel (at site of old St Mary;s Church, Knightwick) SO728552

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

Hundred:
Lower Doddingtree [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Martley; Wichenford; Broadwas; Lulsley; Knightwick; Whitbourne (Herefordshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1964	[5]
	Marriages	1539-1855	[5]
	Burials	1538-1695	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	M1756-1811 Book is bound with Knightwick	[27]
	General	G1538-1685, 1695-1812 Book is bound with Knightwick	[27]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1813-1875
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1538-1779
	Marriages	1538-1649 (93%); 1662-1809; 1813-1855

Register Copies:
Christenings 1538-1649, 1663-66, 1673-1779, Marriages 1539-54, 1564-97, 1614-29, 1637-42, 1666, 1673-1743, 1751, 1760-1809, Burials 1538-39, 1567-68, 1578-79, 1587-90, 1614-49, 1663-66, 1673-95 -Published London, 1891 - Author: Wilson, Joseph Bowstead Society of Genealogists [68]

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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-98 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Manor books 18th and 19th cents
Broadwas and Doddenham: Manor Court books (draft) 1812-1907

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Valuation lists 1863-1988
Poor rate books 1862-90
Minute & account book 1814-94
Surveyors Accounts 1818-36
Apprenticeship register 1804-19

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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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 28th March 2008

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