LONGDON

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Longdon parish included:
A chapel at Castlemorton, which had a separate civil identity early and was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1880.
A chapel at Chaceley, which had a separate civil identity early and was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1760.
A chapel at Eldersfield, which was a separate parish, probably circa 1232-33. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO838362
3 miles south of Upton-upon-Severn on the B4211

Parish Church:
St. Mary

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

Hundred:
Lower Pershore [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Upton-upon-Severn [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Welland; Upton on Severn; Queenhill; Bushley; Forthampton (Gloucestershire); Pendock; Berrow; Birtsmorton; Castle Morton [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1988	[5]
	Marriages	1538-1988	[5]
	Burials	1538-1988	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1795-1816, 1824-1974	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1737-1875
	Marriages	1737-1837
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1612-1700

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Marriages (Index) 1538-1837: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author Boyd, Percival ed.
Births 1885-1919, Christenings 1737-1929, Marriages 1737-1837, banns 1755-1815, Burials 1737-1882 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St Mary: Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Mary: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 1 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1982 - Author Elms, Lucilie (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.
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:
Burial1538-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court books with view of frankpledge 1729-1817 Court book 1783-4

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Settlement certificates, removal & bastardy papers, other poor law papers 18th cent
Apprenticeship indentures 1697-1796

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Longdon Sunday School
Attendance register - 1838 - 43 - Ref: BA 2420/9 (iii)
Superintendent's register - 1936 - 67 - Ref: BA 10748/7 (xi)

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:
The Bushley, Longdon, Queenhill & Holdfast parochial almanack & year book 1888, 1897, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 (in 10 parts), with Tewkesbury directory for 1910 - Published Tewkesbury : William North Society of Genealogists

Directories:
LONGDON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Upton upon Severn, containing 640 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacies of Castle-Morton and Chaseley, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £14. 17. 3½ and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is surmounted by a tower of brick. A free school was founded, about 1660, and endowed with land by Giles Godwin, Esq., for the instruction of children belonging to this parish; the master receives £28 per annum, for which he instructs about forty children in reading, writing, and arithmetic. A court leet is held annually, for Longdon, Castlemeston, and Chaseley. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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