KNIGHTON ON TEME

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
KNIGHTON upon TEAME, a chapelry in the parish of LINDRIDGE, lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW but locally in the upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, county of WORCESTER, 3¾ miles (E. N. E.) from Tenbury, containing, with Newnham, 526 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Chapel in Lindridge Ancient Parish. A separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1843. A separate Civil Parish in 1866 [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO633699
1 mile N.W. of Newnham & 3 miles N.E. of Tenbury
Aston is ¾ mile S.W., Newnham 1 mile S.E. & Bickley is 1½ miles N by E. on the Shropshire border. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Michael

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Salop, Diocese of Hereford until 1919 when transf to the Diocese of Worcester.[5] [25]

Hundred:
In Lower Oswaldslow but locally in Upper Doddingtree [11] [25] [44]

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes: Burford (SAL); Milson (SAL); Neen Sollars (SAL); Lindridge; Eastham; Rochford; Tenbury [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1559-1963	[5]
	Marriages	1560-1964	[5]
	Burials	1559-1964	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	1559-1812	[27]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1908-80	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Held at Herefordshire Record Office

Transcripts: 1630, 1631, 1638 & 1661-99 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1560-1635; 1654-1875
	Marriages	1560-1874

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Michael & All Angels BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Michael & All Angels Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Michael & All Angels: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1994 - Author: Farmer, G R (trans.) Society of Genealogists [59]
Plan of graves (c1930, microfilm) & register of graves (microfilm) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Register of graves 1901-25 Worcestershire Record Office

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:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
Registration District of Tenbury in the counties of Hereford, Shropshire & Worcester in 1851 [Worcestershire part] [Microfiche.] - Published Hereford : Herefordshire FHS, 1996 - Author: Herefordshire FHS (comp.) Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1560-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Register of graves compiled in 1901
Rate Book 1854-7
Vestry Minutes 1864-1923
Parish Officers Accs 1782-1813
Deed relating to Knighton's common 1793
Vestry Minutes 1793-1814
Churchwardens accounts 1813-1927
Vestry Minutes 1815-70
Minute Book of Knighton's School Managers 1870-1910
School Managers' Receipts 1875-1983
Balance Sheets of School 1909-51
Minute Book of School Managers 1910-51
Plan of graves c1930

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Knighton-on-Teme C E (Controlled) School
Admission Register - 1925 - 66 - Ref: BA 9102/11 (vi)
Admission Register - 1967 - 83 - Ref: BA 9102/11 (vii)
Log book - 1942 - 83 - Ref: BA 9102/12 (i)

Knighton-on-Teme School
Log books - 1875 - 96 - Ref: BA 921
Log books - 1896 - Ref: BA 921
Log books - 1941 - Ref: BA 921

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

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Last updated on 31st March 2008

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