ORLETON

Status:
Chapel in Eastham Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish in 1866. Ecclesiastically severed in 1923 to help create Stanford-on-Teme with Orleton Ecclesiastical Parish. Abolished civilly in 1933 to help create Stanford with Orleton Civil Parish. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO694668
4 miles west of Great Witley along the B4203 & 1 mile N.W. of Stanford-on-Teme

Parish Church:
St.John the Baptist

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Salop, Diocese of Hereford [1]

Hundred:
Upper Doddingtree [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Lindridge; Stockton on Teme; Stanford on Teme; Hanley William; Eastham [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1815-1947	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1760-80	[27] [21]

For christenings prior to 1815 see Eastham registers. The last baptism at Orleton was held on 6 April 1947. The chapel closed in 1958.[5]

Bishops' Transcripts: Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI): [19]
Year 1845 see Hanley William Bishop Transcripts

Register Copies:
At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Parish Register of 1572-1812 Parish Register Society

At Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]
Marriages 1760-1780 

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
ORLETON : Christenings 1815-1947 [Microfilm.]   Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998

ORLETON : Marriages 1760, 1778-80: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM]   IN: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2   Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910   Author Phillimore, W P W ed.      

See also EASTHAM 

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 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14] - See Stanford

Directories:
ORLETON, a chapelry in the parish of EASTHAM, upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 7½ miles (E. by S.) from Tenbury, containing 135 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 6th December 2011

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