RUSHOCK

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
RUSHOCK, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 5½ miles (W. by N.) from Bromsgrove, containing 181 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. William Norris, in 1702, bequeathed a house and land in support of a school for teaching fifteen children of this parish, and the same number of that of Elmbridge. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel in Chaddesley Corbett Ancient Parish. Separate parish by 1535. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO884712
5 miles north of Droitwich & 5 miles S.E. of Kidderminster off the A442

Parish Church:
St. Michael

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1921, Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1921 - *) [25]

Hundred:
Lower Halfshire [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Kidderminster [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Chaddesley Corbett; Elmbridge; Elmley Lovett; Stone [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1666-1979	[5]
	Marriages	1667-1936	[5]
	Burials	1667-1812	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1667-1837	[27] [21]

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

Register Copies:
Marriages 1667-1837 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1608-42, 1660-1701 (BTs, gaps) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1608-1700 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1960
Marriages 1667-1837: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910
Marriages (Index) 1667-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Michael BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Michael Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Michael: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1987 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.) Society of Genealogists [59]

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]
1851 census Worcestershire, vol. 2 Kidderminster : transcript & surname index: Chaddesley Corbett, Rushock, Stone, Broom, Churchill, Wolverley - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1992 - Author Friend, A F (trans.) Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial1667-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Rushock School
Log books - 1876 - 1915 - Ref: BA 531/14

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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