MAMBLE

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:
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Baptisms 1691-1963 Marriages and Burials 1691-1964

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

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At BMSGH Shop
St John the Baptist

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St John the Baptist

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] :-
MAMBLE : Monumental Inscriptions in the church : extracted from the Genealogist new series, vol. 7 : Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16   IN: The Genealogist new series, vol. 7     

MAMBLE : Monumental Inscriptions: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript.]   IN: Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1   Published , Nd.   Author Bloom, J Harvey (transcriptions.)

MAMBLE (St. John the Baptist) : Monumental Inscriptions : Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16   Published 1999   Author Bewdley Historical Research Group (transcriptions.)

Census Records:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit. 

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses.  Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
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

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]

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Last updated on 13th December 2011

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