EASTHAM

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
EASTHAM, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 4¼ miles (E.) from Tenbury, comprising the chapelries of Child-Hanley and Orleton, and containing 677 inhabitants. The living is a rectory with that of Hanley-William, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £28. 15. 10. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, has lately received an addition of eighty free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £40 towards defraying the expense. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Included chapel at Hanley Child. Hanley Child, sometimes called 'Lower Hanley', was a separate Civil Parish in 1866. Ecclesiastically severed in 1909 & united with area Hanley William in the same parish to create Hanley William with Hanley Child Ecclesiastical Parish. Included a chapel at Orleton, which was a separate Civil Parish in 1866. This parish ecclesiastically 'Eastham with Orleton' until the chapel ecclesiastically severed in 1923 to help create Stanford on Teme with Orleton Ecclesiastical Parish, the parish named 'Eastham' thereafter. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO657687
1½ miles south of Newnham Bridge along the A443

Hanley Child (or Lower Hanley) is a chapelry, 3 miles S.W. from Eastham and 5 south from Newnham Bridge. Oreleton is a chapelry, 3 miles east from Eastham. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Peter & St. Paul

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Ludlow & Diocese of Hereford (1878-1919), Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester (1919-26), Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1926 - *) [25]

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

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Knighton-on-Teme; Lindridge; Orleton; Hanley William; Hanley Child; Rochford [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1572-1963	[5]
	Marriages	1571-1962	[5]
	Burials	1571-1964	[5]
	Banns	1755-1812, 1918-62	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1571-1837	[27] [21]
	General	**1572-1812	[27]

** Eastham (with Hanley Child and Orleton) and Hanley William


Bishops' Transcripts: Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1571-1875
	Marriages	1571-1880

Register Copies:
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1572-1812 BMSGH microfiche [9]
Transcripts: 1572-1812 Dudley Archives & Local History Service
Marriages 1571-1837 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-

EASTHAM	Christenings & Burials 1660-1812, Marriages 1660-1836 [Microfilm.]	Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1982
EASTHAM	Marriages(Index) 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.]	Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.
EASTHAM (chapelries of ORLETON & HANLEY CHILD)	Births 1653-58, Christenings & Burials 1572-1812, Marriages 1571-1643, 1651-57, 1662-1812	Published Worcester, 1915 - Author: Lea, E E
EASTHAM (with HANLEY CHILD & ORLETON):	Christenings 1572-1812, Marriages & Burials 1571-1812  Hanley William: Christenings 1587-1812, Marriages 1588-1812, Burials 1586-1812 [Microfilm.]	Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972
EASTHAM (with HANLEY CHILD & ORLETON):	Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1571-1812	Published Worcester : Worcestershire Parish Register Society, 1915 - Author Lea, E E
EASTHAM (St. Peter & St. Paul with chapelries of HANLEY WILLIAM, HANLEY CHILD & ORLETON) :	Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1572-1812 [Microfiche.]	Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Author: Worcester Parish Register Society
HANLEY WILLIAM (chapelry of EASTHAM) :	Christenings & Burials 1586-1812, Marriages 1588-93, 1600-05, 1613-32, 1644-66, 1680-1703, 1718, 1735-79, 1790-1811	Published Worcester, 1915 - Author: Lea, E E
Hereford Diocese marriage licence registers	1663-96, 1709-1843 [with contemporary indexes] [Microfilm.]	Genealogical Society of Utah

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 1660-1812 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Parish book c1619-1815
Overseers accounts, churchwardens accounts, vestry minutes 1817-1922

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office
Eastham and Hanley C E Primary School
9 admission registers, log books, managers' minutes and stock book - 1878-1978 - Ref: BA 8341

Eastham and Hanley William C E (controlled) School
Admission registers - 1911-78 - Ref: BA 8341/1
Log books - 1878-1978 - Ref: BA 8341/1

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

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