GREAT & LITTLE HAMPTON

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
HAMPTON (GREAT), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of WORCESTER, 1 mile (W. by S.) from Evesham, containing, with the township of Little Hampton, 324 inhabitants. The living is a discharged perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £7. 12. 3½ , and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is in the later style of English architecture. The navigable river Avon is crossed by a ferry here. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

HAMPTON (LITTLE), a township in the parish of GREAT HAMPTON, lower division of the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of WORCESTER, 3/4 of a mile (W. by S.) from Evesham. The population is returned with the parish. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]

Originally a chapel in Evesham Abbey and a separate parish at the Dissolution. Abolished civilly in 1933 entirely to Evesham Municipal Borough & Civil Parish [25]

Little Hampton was a township in the parish of Great Hampton [44]
Fairfield St Richard is a conventional district. Its records are with those of Hampton.[5]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP029431
1 mile S.W. of Evesham.

Parish Church:
St. Andrew

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1]

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

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Evesham St Lawrence; Evesham All Saints; Bengeworth; Hinton on the Green (Gloucestershire); Cropthorne [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1539-1965	[5]
	Marriages	1538-1968	[5]
	Burials	1539-1978	[5]
	Banns	1902-33	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	1953-81	[12]
	Marriages	1965-69	[12]
	Banns	1756-68, 1824-1980	[12]

Fairfield St.Richard:

Microform at WLHC	Burials	1960-81	[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1620 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Andrew: BMSGH microfiche [53]

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51] :-
St.Andrew Monumental Inscriptions
Cemetery, Evesham
Inscriptions on graves & in the church with index to tombs

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
(St. Andrew) : MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991 - Authors: Farmer, G R & Bushell, L G
(St. Andrew) : MIs in the churchyard: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 5 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1985 - Author: Vale of Evesham Historical Society (trans.)
MIs in the churchyard: taken from the Evesham Journal, 1933: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 8 [Photocopy.]

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:
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
Great Hampton: 1841 51 61 81
Hampton: 1841-1901
Little Hampton:1841 51 61 81

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Proceedings of manorial court of Hampton Magna and parva (in Evesham Abbey Court Book) 1544; Court roll 1552

Schools Records:
See EVESHAM

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