QUEENHILL WITH HOLDFAST

Status:
Ecclesiastical Parish
Queenhill was a chapel in Pershore Hundred and in Ripple Ancient Parish, which otherwise was Oswaldslow Hundred. Queenhill with Holdfast Ecclesiastical Parish was created in 1863 by the union of the chapel at Queenhill and the hamlet of Holdfast also in Ripple Ancient Parish. It was a separate Civil Parish in 1866. [25]

Whereas Youngs [57] gives 1863 for the creation of the parish, the following sources give the date as 1880:

Queenhill, with the hamlet of Holdfast, was formerly a chapelry, annexed to the parish of Ripple, but was in 1880 formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish. [57]

The church at Queenhill is probably the chapel which was valued with the church of Ripple in 1291. (fn. 183) It became the church of the newly-formed parish of Queenhill in 1880,.. [15]
[From: 'Parishes: Ripple', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913), pp. 486-496. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43158. Date accessed: 15 February 2008.]

Location:
O.S. Ref:
Queenhill SO861366; Holdfast SO853378
Queenhill is 2 miles south of Upton-upon-Severn. Holdfast is 1½ mile south from Upton-on-Severn [57]

Parish Church:
St. Nicholas

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Queenhill was a peculiar of the incumbent [1]. Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [25]

Hundred:
Holdfast in Lower Oswaldslow; Queenhill in Lower Pershore [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Upton-upon-Severn [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Upton-upon-Severn; Ripple; Bushley; Longdon [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1580-1988	[5]
	Marriages	1581-1988	[5]
	Burials	1581-1988	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1824 - 1964	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1608 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1580-1731; 1789-1812
	Marriages	1580-1837

Register Copies:
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1581-1731, Christenings 1791-1811, Marriages 1754-1837, Burials 1789-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984 Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Nicholas BMSGH microfiche [53]
St. Nicholas Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Inscriptions in headstones removed from church & sketch plan [showing location of headstones] ([20th century] transcripts) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :
St. Nicholas: MIs in the churchyard: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 3 [Typescript.] - Published , 1981 - Author Elms, Lucilie (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:
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
Holdfast 1841-1901
Queenhill 1841-1901

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1634-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Directories:
QUEENHILL, a chapelry in that part of the parish of RIPPLE which is in the lower division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Upton upon Severn,, containing 94 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]
HOLDFAST, a hamlet in that part of the parish of RIPPLE which is in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 1¾ mile (S. by E.) from Upton upon Severn, containing 89 inhabitants. Here was anciently a chapel, which has been demolished. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 8th February 2010

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