MAMBLE

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
MAMBLE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from Bewdley, containing 386 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that at Bayton, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £9- 4.7 and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. John. There are extensive coal-works within the parish. Sodington, the ancient seat of the Blounts, was destroyed by fire in the great civil war, by some troops of the parliament. What remained of it was taken down in 1807, when several curious Roman relics were discovered beneath the foundations, whence it seems probable that it was anciently the site of a Roman fort. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Abolished ecclesiastically in 1669 to help create Mamble with Bayton Ecclesiastical Parish

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO688716
7 miles S.W. of Bewdley on the A456
Clows Top is a hamlet about 1 mile east of Mamble and about the same distance from Bayton and partly in the latter parish. [57]

Parish Church:
St. John Baptist

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
See Mamble with Bayton Ecclesiastical Parish

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

Poor Law Union:
Cleobury Mortimer [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Bayton; Rock; Lindridge; Neen Sollars (Shropshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Originals at WRO	Banns	1755 - 1812, 1824-75, 1905-82	[12]

See Mamble with Bayton Ecclesiastical Parish

Bishops' Transcripts: See Mamble with Bayton Ecclesiastical Parish

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1662-1871
	Marriages	1662-1843
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	? - 1638
	Marriages	? - 1638

Register Copies:
Hereford Diocese marriage licence registers 1663-96, 1709-1843 [with contemporary indexes] [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City Genealogical Society of Utah Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St John the Baptist BMSGH microfiche [53]
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre (included on Handlist of Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents) [51]
St John the Baptist - Monumental Inscriptions
List of graves in new churchyard (early 20th century)
Plans of churchyard showing areas from where graves were moved (c1968)

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
MIs in the church : extracted from the Genealogist new series, vol. 7 : Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16
MIs: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript.] - Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
(St. John the Baptist) : MIs : Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16 - Published 1999 - Author: Bewdley Historical Research Group (trans.)

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 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 - 91 Shropshire Archives
Shropshire 1891 census returns: Cleobury Mortimer registration district RG 12/2091-2092 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003 Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1679-1964 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court rolls 1718-27; Draft court rolls 1705; Draft manorial rental 1710-14; Draft presentment 1711; Presentments 1712

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Last updated on 1st April 2008

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