EDVIN LOACH

Status:
A chapel in Herefordshire (Bromyard Hundred), in Clifton upon Teme Ancient Parish, which was otherwise entirely Worcestershire (Doddingtree Hundred). Had separate civil identity early in Herefordshire, so that Clifton upon Teme was entirely Worcestershire thereafter. Transferred to Worcestershire in 1844 for civil purposes. Transferred from Worcestershire to Herefordshire in 1893. The area of the original chapel ecclesiastically severed in 1972 to help create Edvin Loach with Tedstone Wafer Ecclesiastical Parish. (It is probable that Tedstone Wafer was originally an Ancient Parish, but perhaps an independent chapel in Herefordshire) [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref:
Edvin Loach SO662584
Tedstone Wafer SO678593
2½ to 3 miles N.E. of Bromyard

Parish Church:
St. Mary, Edvin Loach & St.James, Tedstone Wafer
St. Mary 's, Edvin Loach was declared redundant on 26 September 1974. [80]
St. James' Tedstone Wafer was declared redundant on 3 March 1972 for residential use.

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Salop, Diocese of Hereford [1]

Hundred:
In Upper Doddingtree, Worcestershire though locally in Broxash, Herefordshire [44] [11] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Bromyard [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Collington ; Tedstone Wafer; Brockhampton; Edvin Ralph (All in Herefordshire) [1]

Parish Registers:
No parish registers held at Worcestershire Record Office. The original registers are at Herefordshire Record Office

Register Copies:
Christenings 1576-1754, 1757-1812 (Including Tedstone Wafer 1813-1930) Marriages 1576-1832, 1840-1941 Burials 1576-1754, 1813-1995 - Published , 1979 - Author: Hereford CRO Herefordshire Record Office
Christenings & Burials 1576-1754, Marriages 1576-1832 [Microfilm.] - Author: Herefordshire Record Office Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
St. Mary Virgin: MIs in the church 1880-1944 & the churchyard 1689-1994 : Herefordshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 23 - Published Herefordshire FHS 2004 - Author Robinson, Victoria J et al.
Herefordshire monumental inscriptions index, version 4 [CD-ROM.] - Published Herefordshire FHS 2005

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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851-1881 Herefordshire Record Office

Directories:
EDVIN-LOACH, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, though locally in the hundred of Broxash, county of Hereford, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Bromyard, containing 63 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, with which the rectory of Tedstone-Wafer is united, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £2. 1. 10½ Mr. Higgihson was patron in 1811.[Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 6th February 2010

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