SALWARPE

Descriptive Notes:
Salwarpe Court, a Tudor timber-framed manor, standing close to the Church, was once the home of the Talbot family, enthusiastic royalist and supporters of both Charles I and Charles II.

Directories:
SALWARPE, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 2 ½ miles (W. S. W.) from Droitwich, containing 462 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the arcdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £14. 14. 7. The Rev. J.V.Vashon was patron in 1808. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, exhibits portions in the Norman, and in the decorated and later styles of English architecture. The Droitwich canal passes through the parish. Thomas Trimmell bequeathed £24 per annum for teaching poor children, and. repairing the church; but the charity commissioners report it as lost. A small Benedictine priory, a cell to the abbey of Fontevrault, was founded here in the reign of Richard II., the site of which is occupied by an old mansion erected in the time of Henry VIII. Richard Beauchamp, the celebrated Earl of Warwick, was born here, in 1351. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Included the hamlet of Chawson. Chawson became a separate Civil Parish in 1894 as the 'Unnamed' Civil Parish, being the part of Salwarpe in Droitwich Municipal Borough. (See entry for Unnamed Parish 2).[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO874621
2 miles S.W. of Droitwich along the A38 Droitwich to Worcester road. Turn off by the public house, The Copcut Elm, along Copcut Lane for about 1 mile.

Parish Church:
St. Michael and All Angels

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1]

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

Poor Law Union:
Droitwich [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Westwood Park; Droitwich St Nicholas; Droitwich St Andrew; Droitwich St Peter; Hadzor; Oddingley; Hindlip; Martin Hussingtree; Claines; Ombersley [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1666-1968	[5]
	Marriages	1667-1968	[5]
	Burials	1666-1968	[5]
	Banns	1824-1906	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	C1666-1977	[12]
	Marriages	B1666-1993	[12]
	Banns	1754-1811, 1824-1969	[12]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1608-1812
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1813-1875 (100%)

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1666-1870, Marriages 1667-1968, banns 1754-1811, Burials 1666-1909 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968
Christenings 1870-1968, banns 1824-1906, Burials 1909-68; charities accounts book 1857-1941 & miscellaneous parish documents [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1613-45, 1660-1701 (BTs, gaps) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1614-1700 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1960

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Michael & All Angels BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Michael & All Angels Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Gravestones in churchyard (1861 microfilm & transcript) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :
St. Michael & All Angels: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1985 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.)
St. Michael & All Angels: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1987 - Author Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (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:
Burial 1666-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Sermon book 1851-67
Church register of preachers, readers, collections etc 1867-74
Register of sermons, preachers, collections, etc 1876-91
Preachers Book 1884-96
Charities account book 1857-1941
Transcript of the gravestones in churchyard 1861
Communicants registers 1873-1901
Churchwardens accounts of vestry meeting minutes 1873-1936
Parochial church council meeting minutes 1920-30, 1940-6
Vestry meeting minutes 1926-30, 1940-3
Church Account book 1936-45
Diary & commonplace book re: events in parish (late 19th cent) - 1951
Salwarpe Home Guard scrap book 1940-45
Illuminated address presented to Lieut. W.Gray 1944
Apprenticeship indentures & other poor law papers 18th & 19th cent.

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Salwarpe C E School [Mixed and Infants]
Admission Register - 1913 - 1956 - Ref: BA 4016
Log books - 1888 - 1956 - Ref: BA 1986

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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