ROCHFORD

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
ROCHFORD, a parish in the hundred of WOLPHY, county of HEREFORD, 2 ½ miles (E. by N.) from Tenbury, containing 264 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Tenbury, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A chapel in Tenbury Ancient Parish, which was in Herefordshire (Wolphy Hundred). It became a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1843. In 1844 it was transferred for civil purposes from Herefordshire to Worcestershire. Became a separate Civil Parish in 1866. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO629685
On the South bank of the river Teme, 2 miles east of Tenbury

Parish Church:
St.Michael

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:
Wolphy, Herefordshire, but Upper Doddingtree (from 1844) [44] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Burford (Shropshire); Knighton-on-Teme; Eastham; Hanley Child; Tenbury [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1561-1964	[5]
	Marriages	1562-1963	[5]
	Burials	1561-1964	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1754-1812	[27]
	Bishops' Transcripts	1638 & 1662-1754	[27]
Originals at WRO	Burials	1561-1993	[12]
	Banns	1755 - 1812 (some)	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts: Herefordshire Record Office

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1561-1964
	Marriages	1561-1963

Register Copies:
Hereford Diocese marriage licence registers 1663-96, 1709-1843 [with contemporary indexes] [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City Genealogical Society of Utah Society of Genealogists [68]

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:
1851 - 1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1841 Herefordshire Record Office

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Sutton Stermy: Plan 1778

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Blank register of freeholders 1788
Poor law papers, parish accounts & incumbents' licences 1705-1847
Churchwardens & overseers accounts & vestry minutes 1706-1845 accounts

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Rochford School
Log books - 1927 -47 - Ref: Ref: BA 531/13

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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Last updated on 2nd April 2008

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