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Descriptive Notes:Otherwise 'Stourport'
Directories:
MITTON (LOWER), a chapelry in the parish of KIDDERMINSTER,
lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, and
containing, with the town of Stourport, 2544 inhabitants. The living is
a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, and in
the
patronage of the Vicar of Kidderminster. The chapel, dedicated to St.
Michael, is
a small unadorned edifice of brick, erected in 1790, the chancel at the
expense
of John Folliott, Esq., as lord of the manor of Lickhill. In Leland's
time,
Mitton was distinguished for the number of its corn-mills, for the
establishment of which, the river Stour, branching here in various
directions,
afforded great convenience. There are now a manufactory for
worsted-yarn, an
ironfoundry, a tannery, and a vinegar-yard. The Staffordshire and
Worcestershire canal joins the Severn at this place, and, by uniting
that river
with the Trent, affords an extended line of inland navigation for the
conveyance of goods; whence the origin and growth of the adjoining town
of
Stourport, now a depot
for the manufactures and agricultural produce of the surrounding
counties, and
described under its proper-head. [Topographical
Dictionary of
England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]
A township in Kidderminster Ancient Parish. It was a separate Civil Parish in 1866 and a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1844. Abolished civilly in 1928 to help create Stourport Civil Parish [25]
Lower Mitton was a chapelry in Kidderminster. On the 19th June 1844 it was united with the hamlet of Upper Mitton to form the new parish of Stourport.
Location:
O.S. Ref: SO815717
Stourport-on-Severn
Parish Church:
St.Michael, Church Drive
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1921, Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1921 - *) [25]
Hundred:
Lower Halfshire [44] [25]
Poor Law Union:
Kidderminster (1836-1928) [3] [25]
Parish Registers:
See Stourport-on-Severn
International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]
| Coverage | ||
|---|---|---|
| Parish Registers | Births / Christenings | 1603-1700 |
| Marriages | 1603-1700 |
Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Stourport : Christenings 1693-1841, Marriages & Burials 1693-1840, banns 1765-79 [Typescript.] - Published , 1975 - Author Burton, D R (trans.)
Mytton : Christenings & Burials 1693-1731, Marriages 1693-1730: Worcestershire registers, vol. 1 [Typescript.] - Published , 1994 - Author Cowell, F Vaughan (trans.)
Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Burials numbered according to plan of new burial ground (1888-1969, microfilm) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
For MIs See Stourport on Severn Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
St. Michael & All Angels: MIs - Published 2006 - Author: Hogg, R et al. (comp.)
St. Michael: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript.] - Author: Bloom, J Harvey (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:
Worcestershire 1851 census index HO 107/2039 : Kiddermister registration district - Lower Mitton & Bewdley sub-districts [Microfiche.] - Published , 1998 - Author: Friend, A F (trans.) Society of Genealogists
Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1693-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index
Schools Records:
A handlist of the
records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire
Record Office
for this parish can be found here.
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