HANLEY WILLIAM

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Upper Hanley [11]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Abolished civilly in 1933 to help create Hanley Civil Parish. Abolished ecclesiastically in 1560 entirely to Eastham Ancient Parish. The original area of Hanley William, a chapel of ease to Eastham, ecclesiastically severed 1909 from the latter 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: SO673660
6 miles S.E. of Tenbury along the B4202

Parish Church:
All Saints

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Salop & Diocese of Hereford until 1919, when transf to the Diocese of Worcester [5]

Hundred:
Upper Doddingtree [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Eastham; Orleton; Stanford on Teme; Upper Sapey (Herefordshire); Wolferlow (Herefordshire); Hanley Child [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1587-1991	[5]
	Marriages	1588-1954	[5]
	Burials	1586-1992	[5]
	Banns	1754-1815	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1586-1837	[27] [21]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1825-1984	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts: At Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1586-1812
	Marriages	1588-1812
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1813-1847
	Marriages	1813-1831

Register Copies:
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Hanley William, Worcestershire Parish Register Society Parish Register of 1572-1812

At Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]
Chapelry of EASTHAM: Marriages 1586-1837

At Society of Genealogists [68]:
HANLEY WILLIAM : Christenings & Burials 1662-1847, Marriages 1662-1837 (Bishops' Transcripts) [Microfilm.]   Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979

HANLEY WILLIAM : Marriages 1588-1672, 1680-1703, 1712-18, 1735-1834: 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.  
HANLEY WILLIAM : MarriagesIndex 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.]   IN: Boyd's marriage index   Published , 1925-55   Author Boyd, Percival ed. Source D: P Boyd.

HANLEY WILLIAM (chapelry of Eastham) : Christenings & Burials 1586-1812, Marriages 1588-93, 1600-05, 1613-32, 1644-66, 1680-1703, 1718, 1735-79, 1790-1811   Published Worcester, 1915   Author Lea, E E (transcriptions)

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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1812 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court rolls [1547]-1725; Presentment 1653

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Inclosure award & plan

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Eastham and Hanley William CE (Controlled)
Admissions registers - 1911 - 78 - Ref: BA 8341 / 1
Log books - 1878 - 1978 - Ref: BA 8341 / 1
Note - This school has been known by various names since it opened in 1878. Eastham NationalEastham & Hanley NationalEastham & Hanley CE ControlledEastham & Hanley CE Eastham & Hanley Eastham & Hanley PrimaryThe school closed in 1978

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

Directories:
HANLEY-WILLIAM, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from Tenbury, containing 124 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at£5. 7. 11 and in the patronage of the Rev. R. Whitehead. The church is dedicated to All Saints. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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