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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] |
Bishops' Transcripts: Herefordshire Record Office
International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]
| Coverage | ||
|---|---|---|
| Parish Registers | Births / Christenings | 1571-1875 |
| Marriages | 1571-1880 |
Register Copies:
At BMSGH Shop
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1572-1812
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Parish Register of 1572-1812 - Worcestershire Parish Register Society
At Dudley Archives & Local History Service
Transcripts: 1572-1812
At Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]
Marriages 1571-1837
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
| EASTHAM | EASTHAM : Marriages 1571-1837: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM] IN: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 . | Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910 Author Phillimore, W P W ed |
| 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 (transcriptions) Edition Privately printed |
| EASTHAM (with HANLEY CHILD & ORLETON) | Christenings 1572-1812, Marriages & Burials 1571-1812; HANLEY WILLIAM: Christenings 1587-1812, Marriages 1588-1812, B 1586-1812 [Microfilm.] | Published Salt Lake City : 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 (transcriptions) |
| 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, Nd. Author Worcester Parish Register Society Edition Copy of 1915 edn |
| 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 (transcriptions) |
| Worcestershire parish records | Bedwardine, St Michael 1546-1812 (marriages to 1754); Bushley 1538-1812; Worcester Cathedral 1693-1811; Churchill in Oswaldslow; Eastham Hanley William 1572-1812; St. Al IN: English parish records:Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Oxford, Worcestershire (spine) | Published Utah MyFamily.com.Inc. 2001 Source D: M Herber. |
| Hereford Diocese marriage licence registers | 1663-96, 1709-1843 [with contemporary indexes] [Microfilm.] | Genealogical Society of Utah |
Census Records:
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]
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.
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]
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Last updated on 4th December 2011