KEMERTON

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
KEMERTON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of TEWKESBURY, county of GLOUCESTER, 4½ miles (N.E.) from Tewkesbury, containing 520 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £17. 13. 1½ and in the patronage of the Mayor and Corporation of Gloucester. The church has portions in the early, and some in the later, style of English architecture. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish contains an excellent quarry of freestone, and several petrifying springs. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Gloucestershire parish transferred 1931 to Worcestershire [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO946368
1½ miles east of Bredon

Parish Church:
St.Nicholas

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Diocese of Gloucester [5]

Hundred:
Lower Tewkesbury [15] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Tewkesbury [3]

Adjoining Parishes:
Eckington; Great Comberton; Elmley Castle; Overbury; Aschurch (Gloucestershire); Bredon; Bredons Norton [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1572-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1575-1966	[5]
	Burials	1572-1966	[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
1602- 1812, 1813- 59 Gloucestershire Archives

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1602- 1875
	Marriages	1740- 1882

Register Copies:
At Gloucestershire Archives [64] :
Transcript: Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1572-1948
Transcript: Marriages 1575-1812
Christenings, Marriages & Burials1572-1948, 
Marriage index: Marriages 1575-1812 Roe's Marriage Iindex Brides & Grooms

Marriages 1575-1812 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :
Christenings & Burials 1572-1948, Marriages 1575-1948 - Published , 1979
Marriages 1575-1812: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 6 - Gloucestershire, vol. 4 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1898
Marriages (Index) 1575-1812: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Authors: Roe, E A & Boyd, Percival ed

Nonconformist:
Methodist Circuit Records: Christenings 1907-65 Gloucestershire Archives [56]
Church roll: Methodist Circuit Records: Christenings 1863-1964 Gloucestershire Archives [56]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
-1792 Bigland Gloucestershire Archives [56]
Methodist Chapel Records
1835-1988 Gloucestershire Archives [56]
(Methodist) : MIs in the burial ground: Gloucestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 12 [Typescript.] - Published , 1990 - Author: Cooper, K (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:
1851 1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1841 61 71 81 Gloucestershire Archives
1851 Gloucestershire Archives [56]
1891 Warwickshire County Record Office
Gloucestershire 1851 Census index & transcription, vol. 19 : HO 107/1974 - [Tewkesbury registration district] Deerhurst, Overbury & Tewkesbury sub-districts: Index to the 1851 Census for Gloucestershire [Microfiche.] - Published Gloucestershire FHS, 1999 - Author Gloucestershire FHS (comp.) Society of Genealogists

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Rentals 1733-6

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Typescript copy of registers 1572-1948
Choir music score for tenor decani (late 19th cent)
Choir music score for tenor cantoris (Late 19th cent)
Inventory of church property 1914-[1935], c1958

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Kemerton
Log book - 1904 - 43 - Ref: BA 531 / 9

Kemerton C E
Log book - 1950 - 65 - Ref: BA 4535

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:
Bredon hill & its villages - Published 1968 - Author Lloyd, R H Society of Genealogists

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Last updated on 31st March 2008

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