HANLEY CHILD

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Lower Hanley

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:
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Hanley Child, Worcestershires Parish Register Society Parish Register of 1572-1812

At Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]
Marriages 1754-1836 

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
HANLEY CHILD : Marriages 1756-1836: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM]   IN: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2   Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910   Author Phillimore, W P W ed.

See also EASTHAM

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]

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

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]

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 5th December 2011

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