HANLEY CHILD

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Lower Hanley

Directories:
HANLEY-CHILD, a chapelry in the parish of EASTHAM, upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 5 miles (S. E. by E.) from Tenbury, containing 195 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Chapel in Eastham Ancient Parish and a separate Civil Parish in 1866. Abolished civilly in 1933 part to help create Hanley Civil Parish & part to help create Kyre Civil Parish. Ecclesiastically severed in 1909 to help create Hanley William with Hanley Child Ecclesiastical Parish. Hanley William with Hanley Child Ecclesiastical Parish abolished in 1973 to help create Stoke Bliss with Kyre Wyard, Hanley William & Hanley Child Ecclesiastical Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO650652
6 miles S.E. of Tenbury along the B4202

Parish Church:
St. Michael & All Angels

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Salop, Diocese of Hereford. [1] Hanley Child was transferred from the Diocese of Hereford to the Diocese of Worcester in 1919 [5]

Hundred:
Upper Doddingtree [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Tenbury; Rochford; Eastham; Hanley William; Upper Sapey (Herefordshire); Wolferlow (Herefordshire); Stoke Bliss  (Herefordshire); Kyre Parva (Herefordshire); Kyre Magna [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1813-1992	[5]
	Marriages	1816-1949	[5]
	Burials	1910-63	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1754-1836	[27] [21]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1824-1936	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts: At Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1813-1875
	Marriages	1816-1885

Register Copies:
Marriages 1754-1836 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Marriages 1756-1836: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910 - Author: Phillimore, W P W ed.
Hereford Diocese marriage licence registers 1663-96, 1709-1843 [with contemporary indexes] [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City Genealogical Society of Utah

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]

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Chief rents 1772-1833; Court rolls [?copy] 1730-1800

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Last updated on 30th March 2008

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