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

At Society of Genealogists [68]:
HANLEY WILLIAM :
Christenings & Burials 1662-1847, Marriages 1662-1837 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979
 
Marriages 1588-1672, 1680-1703, 1712-18, 1735-1834: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910 - Author Phillimore, W P W ed.

Marriages (Index) 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.

Christenings & Burials (Chapelry of Eastham) 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 (trans.)

EASTHAM (St. Peter & St. Paul with chapelries of Hanley William, Hanley Child & Orleton) : Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1572-1812 [Microfiche.] - Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Author: Worcester Parish Register - Copy of 1915 edn.

EASTHAM (with HANLEY CHILD & ORLETON) : Christenings 1572-1812, Marriages & Burials 1571-1812;

HANLEY WILLIAM: Christenings 1587-1812, Marriages 1588-1812, Burials 1586-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972

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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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]

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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Last updated on 6th February 2010

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