HANLEY CASTLE

Descriptive Notes:
Sometimes early called 'Potters Hanley' [25]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
In 1836 Malvern Wells Ecclesiastical Parish was created from Hanley Castle Ancient Parish.
In 1894 South Malvern Civil Parish  was created from that part of Hanley Castle in Great Malvern Urban District. In 1896 a further part of Hanley Castle Ancient Parish was lost to South Malvern Civil Parish as the enlarged area of the latter was renamed "Malvern Wells Civil Parish".

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO839419
1½ miles N.W. of Upton-upon-Severn
Blackmore End is a hamlet, 3 miles N.W. of Hanley and 1 mile S.E. from Great Malvern. Rhydd is 2 miles north [along the B4424]. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Mary

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

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

Poor Law Union:
Upton-upon-Severn [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Great Malvern; Severn Stoke; Earls Croome; Ripple; Upton upon Severn; Welland; Little Malvern; Colwall (Herefordshire); Mathon [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1539-1989	[5]
	Burials	1538-1966	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	C1538-1739	[27]
	Marriages	M1538-1739	[27]
	Burials	D1538-1740	[27]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1613 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1538-1875
	Marriages	1539-1885

Register Copies:
At BMSGH Shop
Hanley Castle & Hanley Swan - Parish Records & Bishops Transcripts 1538-1740

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Hanley Castle and Hanley Swan parish records and Bishops' Transcripts 1538-1740

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
HANLEY CASTLE (St. Mary) & HANLEY SWAN (St. Gabriel) : Births 1538-1739, Marriages 1539-83, 1599-1619, 1627-39, 1650-1739, Deaths 1538-84, 1591-1641, 1653-1740 [Microfiche.]   Published Nd.  Source D: J Lampitt

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At Worcestershire Record Office [12]
Copy of inscriptions in the churchyard 

War Memorials:
For the names of those commemorated on a War Memorial at  St Mary's Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Hanley Castle St Mary's Church

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 1661-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court roll [1376]; Extent [c.1550]

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Churchwardens accounts 1835-1945
Inclosure award & plan 1818
Transcript of parish register 1538-1812 with index. [20th cent] 1929

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Hanley Castle
Photograph of School pupils - c. 1885 - Ref: BA 10161

Hanley Castle Grammar
Photographs - late 19th - 20th century - Ref: BA 8763 / 4 (i)

Hanley Castle High
Admission registers - 1906 - 25 - Ref: BA 1033
Photograph - late 19th - 20th century - Ref: BA 8763 / 4 (i)

St Mary's C E Infants'
Log book, Infants' and Girls' School - 1891 - 1929 - Ref: BA 8850 (i)
Log book, Infants' School. Note - this school closed in July 1981 - 1929 - 81 - Ref: BA 8850 (ii)

A handlist of other records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

Other Sources:
Hanley & the house of Lechmere - Published London : Pickering & Co., 1883 - Author Shirley, Evelyn Philip Society of Genealogists

Directories:
HANLEY-CASTLE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, l¼ mile (N. N. W.) from Upton upon Severn, containing 1424 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's-books at £12. 15. and in the patronage of Sir Anthony Lechmere, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a chapel for the Roman Catholics. Courts leet and baron are held annually. A school, founded by an ancestor of the family of Lechmere, is open to children of both sexes, who are supplied with books, and taught upon Dr. Bell's system: the endowment consists of land producing an income of £160 per annum, with a school-house and garden: the classics were originally taught, and the school had formerly two small exhibitions to Balliol College Oxford. The river Severn runs through the parish, on the margin of which there was a castle successively possessed by the Nevilles, Earls of Warwick, the De Spensers, and the Lechmeres: its remains have been converted into a farm-house. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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