DODDERHILL

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
DODDERHILL, a parish partly within the borough of DROITWICH, but chiefly in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, ½ a mile (N.) from Droitwich, containing, with the chapelry of Elmbridge, 1565 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £ 12. 12. 3½ and in the patronage of George Penrice, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Augustine, is a curious edifice, which having been partly destroyed in the parliamentary war, and rebuilt, consists of the north transept of a Norman church, with a chancel of later date, and a tower in place of the south transept. A free chapel, or hospital, was founded in the 13th of Edward I, and dedicated to St. Mary, by William de Dovere, for a master and poor brethren, who were under the government of the prior of Worcester, and whose lands, at the suppression of free chapels in the reign of Edward VI, were valued at £21. 11. 8. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Included a chapel at Elmbridge, which was a separate Civil Parish in 1866 and a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1877.
Included a chapel at Westwood Park, which was an extra-parochial in 1178. The chapel had all parochial rights before the Dissolution but rights not sustained thereafter. It was a separate Civil Parish in 1858. Included the area "Dodderhill in Liberties", which was the area of the parish in Droitwich Borough/Municipal Borough and a separate Civil Parish in 1866. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO901637
Dodderhill adjoins Droitwich to the north of the town.
Wychbold is a village, 2 miles N.E.  Astwood and Shaw Lane are populous neighbourhoods adjacent to the salt works of John Corbett Esq. at Stoke Prior. Rashwood is 1 mile N.E. by N. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Augustine

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

Hundred:
Partly in the borough of Droitwich, but chiefly in Upper Halfshire [11] [25] [44] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Droitwich [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Upton Warren; Stoke Prior; Hanbury; Hadzor; Droitwich St Peter; Droitwich St Andrew; Droitwich St Nicholas; Crutch [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1651-1963	[5]
	Marriages	1670-1963	[5]
	Burials	1669-1963	[5]
	Banns	1754-76, 1789-1942	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1754-89, 1789-1823, 1878-1969	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1613 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1774-1875
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1613-1641 (70%)

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Augustine BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Augustine Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Augustine: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.), 1987 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers accounts 1738-1834
Churchwardens accounts 1653-1724
Vestry minutes 1784-1944
Vicarial tithes record 1791-1833

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Rashwood School
Attendance registers - 1936-96 - Ref: BA 12710/(ii) (iii)
Log book - 1972-94 - Ref: BA 12710/(i)
Admission register - 1889-1935 - Ref: BA 1618/20
Infants' Dept. Log book - 1835-1912 - Ref: BA 1618/14
Mixed Dept. Log book -1894-1906 - Ref: BA 1618/15

Dodderhill School
Log books - 1869-94 - Ref: BA 1618/6

Rashwood C P School
Summary attendance registers - 1947-66 - Ref: BA 6331/2
Mixed Dept. - Log books, including HMI reports, newspaper cutting showing scholars in 1904 and photographs of last day of school - 1906-72 - Ref: BA 6331/1
Mixed Dept. - Punishment book - 1901-53 - Ref: BA 6331/2

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

Other Sources:
Historical guide to the parish churches of the Borough of Droitwich, St. Peter de Witton; St. Augustine, Dodderhill; St. Mary de Witton; St. Andrew, Droitwich; St. Nicholas, Droitwich; MIs in Dodderhill church - Published , 1930 - Author: Cooper, W Sterry Society of Genealogists

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