FLADBURY

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Included chapel at Stock & Bradley, a chapel at Throckmorton, a chapel at Wyre Piddle, the hamlet of Ab Lench & the hamlet of Hill & Moor, each a separate Civil Parish in 1866

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO996463
4 miles east of Pershore
Hill & Moor form a hamlet of Fladbury, the former of which is distant about 1½ miles N.W. from Fladbury, and the latter about 1 mile west. [57]

Parish Church:
St. John the Baptist

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

Hundred:
Middle Oswaldslow [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Throckmorton; Bishampton; Church Lench; Norton; Cropthorne; Bricklehampton; Wick; Wyre Piddle; Pinvin [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1560-1952	[5]
	Marriages	1560-1957	[5]
	Burials	1560-1952	[5]
	Banns	1754-1834	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1843-1964	[12]

The Fladbury registers may also include entries for Hill & Moor, Throckmorton & Wyre Piddle. There are also separate registers for these parishes so confusion can arise.[5]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1560-1850
	Marriages	1560-1711; 1713-1885

Register Copies:
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Marriages 1837-1926

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At BMSGH Shop
St.John the Baptist

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St.John the Baptist

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St.John the Baptist 

At Society of Genealogists [59]
FLADBURY (St. John the Baptist) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 7 [Typescript.]   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 7   Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1988   Author Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (transcriptions) Source D: BMSGH 

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 1560-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Compotus rolls 1524, [1524-5]; Corn rental 1778-85; Court books 1698-1751, 1761-1906; Court roll 1571-5; Lists of freehold rents and the copyholders of the manor 23 May 1677; Manor books 1781-1860; Rental 1695-1702, 1759-c.1805; Surveys, valuations, manor books, rent rolls etc. 17th-19th cents; Accounts 17th-18th cents

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.

Directories:
FLADBURY, a parish in the middle division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 4 miles (E.) from Pershore, comprising the chapelries of Stock with Bradley, Throckmorton, and Wyre-Piddle; the township of Hill with Moor, and the hamlet of Hob-Lench, otherwise Abbots-Lench, and containing 1387 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the rector, rated in the king's books at £81. 10. and in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In Ethelred's reign, a society of religious persons was established here subordinate to the church of Worcester. The navigable river Avon has a ferry over it at this place. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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