GRIMLEY

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
GRIMLEY, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 4 ½ miles (N. by W.) from Worcester, containing 666 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the Icing's books at £14. 0. 10, endowed with £10 per annum private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. There is a chapel of ease at Hallow, in this parish: on the east flows the river Severn, over which is a ferry. There are several plantations of hops; and in Hallow park is a mineral spring of similar properties to the Cheltenham water. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Included a chapel at Hallow, which enjoyed a separate civil identity early and was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1876. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO836607
4 miles north of Worcester along the A443

Parish Church:
St. Bartholomew

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

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

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Holt; Ombersley; Claines; Hallow, Wichenford [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1573-1963	[5]
	Marriages	1575-1982	[5]
	Burials	1573-1963	[5]
	Banns	1754-1812, 1824-1933	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1640-1840	[27]
	Marriages	1640-1837	[27]
	Burials	1600-12; 1640-1837	[27]
Originals at WRO	Marriages	1575-1990	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1611 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1573-1875
	Marriages	1573-1875

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Bartholomew BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Bartholomew Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Bartholomew: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 7 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1988 - 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]
The 1841 returns include pages for Southwark St. Saviours

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

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Accounts 17th-18th cents; Court rolls 1705-46; Court papers 1764-1812; Corn rental 1778-85, 1806-41; Manor books 1781-1860, 18th cent; Minute book of Court Leet and Court Baron 1781-1860; Reeves' rent rolls, corn rent rolls, valuations and estate particulars, correspondence and petitions 1659-1806; Rental 1695-1702, 1759-69, 1769-c.1805

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Restoration fund etc 1885-90
Vestry minutes 18th & 19th cent.
Churchwardens accounts 1837-85

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Grimley C E School
Admission register - 1911-93 - Ref: BA 11471/2(ii)
Log books - 1904-92 - Ref: BA 11471/1(i) (ii), 2(i)

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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Last updated on 29th December 2008

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