SHELSLEY BEAUCHAMP

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Great Shelsley

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Including the hamlet of Shelsley Kings, which became a separate Civil Parish in 1866. Abolished ecclesiastically in 1972 to help create The Shelsleys Ecclesiastical Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO731629
10 miles N.W. of Worcester along the B4204

Parish Church:
All Saints

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1] [25]

Hundred: Part in Lower & part in Upper Doddingtree [44] [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Stockton on Teme; Abberley; Great Witley; Martley; Clifton on Teme; Shelsley Walsh; Upper Sapey (Herefordshire); Stanford on Teme [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1968	[5]
	Marriages	1538-1967	[5]
	Burials	1538-1968	[5]
	Banns	1887-1968	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	C1538-1994	[12]
	Banns	1755-1811, 1825-87, 1887-1971	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1613 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1538-1875
	Marriages	1538-1885

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
All Saints Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Cemetery grave plan (1953) Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

SHELSLEY BEAUCHAMP : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 9 [Typescript.]   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 9   Published , 1990   Author Faraday, Michael Anthony (transcription.)  Society of Genealogists [59]

Census Records:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit. 

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses.  Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Schedule of documents re Shelsley School (late 18th cent)
Parish book containing vestry meeting & other minutes, churchwardens charity & other church accounts 1802-86
Overseers of the poor account, Martley Union accounts & vestry meeting minutes 1824-70
Vestry Meeting minutes, highway, charity, overseers & other accounts 1839-1967 (current)
Churchwardens & Church account book 1885-1955
Webbs Charity Minute Book 1932-68 Feb (current)

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Shelsley Beauchamp (Free) School
Letters, apprenticeship indentures, certificate, scheme, reports - 18th - 20th cents - Ref: BA 8459/6 (ii) - 7 (iv)

Shelsley Beauchamp C E School
Log books - 1883 - 1920 - Ref: BA 2290

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

Directories:
SHELSLEY-BEAUCHAMP, a parish partly in the lower, and partly in the upper, division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 85 miles (S. W.) from Stourport, containing 546 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £9. 4. 4½ and in the patronage of Lord Foley. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Caleb Avenant, in 1723, gave certain land in support of a school. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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