PENSAX

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
PENSAX, a chapelry in the parish of LINDRIDGE, lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, but locally in the upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (S. W.) from Bewdley, containing 574 inhabitants. Coal is obtained in the neighbourhood. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Chapel in Lindridge Ancient Parish. Was a separate Civil Parish in 1866 and a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1843 [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO723690
7 miles west of Stourport on Severn, 2 miles north of Stockton on Teme
Part of Lindgridge, consisting of the hamlet of Menith Wood, was in 1879 ecclesiastically annexed to [Pensax] parish .. [57]

Parish Church:
St. James the Great

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry of Salop & Diocese of Hereford until 1876, Archdeaconry of Ludlow & Diocese of Hereford (1876-1919), Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester (1919-1921), Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1921 - *) [25]

Hundred:
In Lower Oswaldslow but locally in Upper Doddingtree [44] [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Rock; Abberley; Stockton on Teme; Lindridge [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1563-1963	[5]
	Marriages	1563-1961	[5]
	Burials	1563-1963	[5]
	Banns	1825-87	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	CMB1563-1812	[27]
	Banns	1638-1812	[27]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1754-1811	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1935 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]; Earlier Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1792-1875
	Marriages	1838-1885
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1620-1638; 1662-1791
	Marriages	1630; 1664-1836

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings & Burials 1792-1963, Marriages 1838-1961, banns 1825-87; vestry minutes 1837-93 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964

Marriages 1813-36 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984

Pensax (Chapelry) : Christenings 1563-1604, 1613-55, 1663-1812, Marriages 1565-1604, 1612-48, 1664-1811, Burials 1565-1604, 1612-48, 1664-1812: Worcestershire registers, vol. 1 [Typescript.] - Published , 1993 - Author:
Faraday, M (trans.)

Pensax (Chapelry) : Christenings & Burials 1661-1874, Marriages 1661-1837 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979 - Author: Herefordshire Record Office

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.James BMSGH microfiche [53]
Transcript: St.James MIs1965 [27]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
St.James: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 9 [Typescript.] - Published , 1965 - Author: Faraday, Michael Anthony (trans.)

St. James : MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1992 - Author: Farmer, G R (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:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial1663-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Vestry Minutes Parish Annual Accounts 1837-93

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Pensax C E School
Admission registers - 1878 - 1959 - Ref: BA 10548/3 (i) (ii)
Log book - 1873 - 1984 - Ref: BA 10548/1 (i) (ii), 2 (i)

A handlist of other records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

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