MARTIN HUSSINGTREE

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO876598
4 miles N.E. of Worcester on the A38
Brown Heath is ¾ mile east. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Michael & All Angels

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1]

Hundred:
In Upper Pershore though locally in Lower Oswaldslow [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Droitwich [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Salwarpe; Hindlip; Claines [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1538-1966	[5]
	Burials	1540-1966	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	C1538-1970	[12]
	Marriages	M1538-1996	[12]
	Banns	1935-60	[12]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1539-1708

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Michael & All Angels BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Michael & All Angels Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
(St. Michael & All Angels) : MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 14 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1993 - Author Farmer, G R (trans.)
(St. Michael) : MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Manuscript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1986 - Author Jasinski, Jean (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.
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:
Burial 1660-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Poor relief assessment 1827
Transcript of Registers 1538-1939 with 2 indexes

Directories:
MARTIN-HUSSINGTREE, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, though locally in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, county of WORCESTER, 3 miles (S.W.) from Droitwich, containing 217 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £5. 14. 4½, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Martin and Hussingtree were two separate manors, though they were taxed together in a subsidy of about 1280, when the name was written Hussingtree and Martin, the order being reversed in 1327.
By an undated deed Aldred, rector of Martin, granted the vicarage of the chapel of St. Nicholas of Martin to John, chaplain of Droitwich. Martin was a chapel of St. Eadburga, Pershore ....
[From: 'Parishes: Martin Hussingtree', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 135-139. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42868. Date accessed: 19 December 2007.]

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