INKBERROW

Descriptive Notes:
Otherwise Inkborough [11]

Directories:
INKBERROW, a parish in the middle division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 5¼ miles (W.) from Alcester, containing 1667 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £16. 2. 1. The Earl of Abergavenny was patron in 1792. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains numerous monuments. At Cokehill are some remains of a nunnery founded in 1260 by Isabella, Countess of Warwick, who assumed the veil here: at the dissolution the establishment consisted of a prioress and six nuns, whose revenue was estimated at £34. 15. 11. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Cookhill was a chapel of ease to Inkberrow [5]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP016572
11 miles E.N.E. of Worcester on the A422

Parish Church:
St. Peter

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

Hundred:
Middle Oswaldslow [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Alcester [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Bradley; Feckenham; Coughton (Warwickshire); Alcester (Warwickshir); Arrow (Warwickshir); Weethley (Warwickshir); Abbots Morton; Rous Lench; Kington; Dormston; Hanbury [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1675-1964	[5]
	Marriages	1676-1964	[5]
	Burials	1675-1964	[5]
	Banns	1793-1938	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	1613-32, 1634-40, 1661-74	[27]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	1675-1976	[12]
	Marriages	1676-1974	[12]
	Banns	1898-1961	[12]

The registers are said to include burials for Kington & Dormston [5]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1676-1699; 1701-1875
	Marriages	1598-1875
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1598-1700 (48%)

Register Copies:
Christenings 1675-1778 Marriages 1675-1778 Burials 1675-1778 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]
Christenings 1615-16, 1622-41, 1661-79, Marriages 1615, 1622-41, 1661-1754, Burials 1615-16, 1622-40, 1661-1778 (BTs) [Typescript.] - Authors: Bradbrooke, William & Moody, P S (trans.) Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Peter BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Peter Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Peter: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Author: Farmer, G R (trans.) Society of Genealogists [59]

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 51 1901 (Including 1841 for Cookhill) at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1861-91 Warwickshire County Record Office
Warwickshire 1891 census returns: Alcester registration district RG 12/2480-2483 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003 - Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial1676-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Cladeswell: Extent [c.1550]
Inkberrow: Court rolls [1616-85], 1742-88, 1798-1819; List of copyhold tenants 1830

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
List of parish officers, overseers' accounts & other information especially relating to the poor. Includes plan of parish lands in 1806 - 1657-1842
Parish officers account books with some vestry minutes 1763-1839
Receipts and payments books 1836-64
Churchwardens accounts 1823-1907
Surveyors of the highways account book 1792-1804
Surveyors accounts 1802-45
List of poor re their employment 1806
Rate book 1853
Miscellaneous indentures 17th & 19th cent
Vestry minute book with list of surveyors, overseers etc 1842-1933

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Cookhill C P
Admission register - 1897 - 1939 - Ref: BA 3969 / 2
Log books - 1876 - 1945 - Ref: BA 3969 / 1

Cookhill First (formerly Cookhill Council School)
Log book. Note - This school closed on 23 July 1982 - 1945 - 82 - Ref: BA 9008
Admission register - 1937 - 82 - Ref: BA 9102 / 10 (i)

Inkberrow
Admission register - 1865 - 1922 - Ref: BA 931 / 15
Log books - 1863 - 1949 - Ref: BA 931 / 11 - 13

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:
History of the parish of Inkberrow : paper read to the Worcester Diocesan Architectural & Archaeological Society at the Shire Hall, Worcester, on Tuesday 16 Dec 1902 - Published , 1902 - Author: Bradbrook, William Society of Genealogists
More about Inkberrow - Published Inkberrow, 1976 - Privately published - Authors: Hunt, Robert & Jackson, Ruth Society of Genealogists

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