SHIPSTON ON STOUR

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
SHIPSTON upon STOUR, a market town and parish forming, with the parishes of Tidmington and Tredington, a detached portion of the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, being locally in the Kington division of the hundred of Kington, county of Warwick, 16 miles (S. by W.) from Warwick, and 83 (N.W. by W.) from London, containing 1562 inhabitants. This town is said to derive its name from having been formerly one of the largest markets for sheep in the kingdom; it is situated on the river Stour, in a fertile and rather hilly country, at about two miles distance from the Stratford upon Avon and Moreton railway: there was formerly a large manufacture of shag, which has quite declined, and it has now little trade of any description. The Dean and Chapter of Worcester, who possess the manorial rights, hold a court annually, at which a constable is appointed. The market is on Thursday, and there are fairs on the third Tuesday in April, June 22nd, the last Tuesday in August, and the Tuesday after the 10th of October. The living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Tidmington annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £5. 7. 8½ , and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, and of the Principal and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, the former presenting to every third vacancy. The church is dedicated to St. Edmund. The Baptists, Society of Friends, and Wesleyan Methodists, have each a place of worship. Endowments for the instruction of children were bequeathed by John Pittway, in 1706, and by George Marshall, in 1747, the latter amounting to £39 per annum, and the National school is well attended; there are also various small bequests for the poor of the town. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A chapel in Tredington Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish and Ecclesiastical Parish in 1719, ecclesiastically including Tidmington, a chapel in Tredington Ancient Parish, which civilly became separate at that time. Transferred in 1931 from Worcestershire to Warwickshire.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP260406
11 miles S.E. of Stratford-upon-Avon, on the A3400

Parish Church:
St.Edmund, Church Rd

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1918, Archdeaconry of Warwick & Diocese of Coventry (1918 - *)[25]

Hundred:
A detached portion of Upper Oswaldslow, Worcestershire, being locally in the Kington division of Kington Hundred, Warwickshire [44] [11] [25] [28]


Poor Law Union:
Shipston-on-Stour [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Tredington; Honington (Warwickshire); Barcheston (Warwickshire); Tidmington; Stretton on the Foss (Warwickshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1572-1812	[27] [20]

No parish registers held at Worcestershire Record Office. The originals are at Warwickshire County Record Office.

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1727-1885
	Marriages	1727-1895
Particular Baptist	Births	1783-1836
Quaker Meeting	Christenings	1777-1814

Register Copies:
At Warwickshire County Record Office :-
Banns: Originals: 1754-1770, 1823 - 1959
Christenings 1573-1958 Marriages 1572-1976 Burials 1572-1865
Microform: Christenings 1572-1875 Marriages 1572-1876 Burials 1572-1868 Banns: 1754-1876

Christenings 1572-1669 Marriages 1571-1812 Burials 1572-1625, 1650-56 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Banns 1873-1933 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985

Marriages 1572-1812: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 22 - Worcestershire, vol. 1 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1901 - Authors: Phillimore, W P W ed. & Carter, W F ed.

Marriages (Index) 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.

Nonconformist:
Baptist
Births 1776-82 Christenings 1783-1836 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [30]
Births / Christenings 1781-1848 Deaths / Burials 1782-1850 ; Members / Converts 1780-1850 Warwickshire County Record Office
Quaker
Births / Christenings 1777-1814 Warwickshire County Record Office

At Society of Genealogists :-
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Warws., Leics. & Rutland QM :
Births 1623-1837, 1636-1815, 1646-1762, Marriages 1648-1837, 1659-1794, 1668-1711, Burials 1659-1837, 1661-1836, 1636-1781 (includes Tamworth, Handsworth, West Bromwich, Rowley Regis, Lichfield, Wednesbury, Aldridge, Staffs.; Chipping Camden, Stow on the Wold, Sezincote, Glos.; Ratcliffe on Soar, Notts.; Warley, Oldbury, Salop; Shipston on Stour, Tredington, Old Swinford, Dudley, Stourbridge, Worcs.) [Microfilm.] - Published London : World Microfilms Publications, 1989 Baptist Chapel : Births 1783-1836: Worcestershire registers, vol. 1 [Photocopy.] - Published 1984 - Author Tooke, Jean (trans.)

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Edmund BMSGH microfiche [53]
Shipston on Stour Society of Friends Burial Ground: Transcripts of register of burials 1865-69, 1879 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [52]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
St. Edmund: MIs [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1989 - Author Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.)
MIs in the churchyard: Worcestershire Churchyard Inscriptions [Manuscript.] - Published , 1911 - Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
MIs: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 1 [Manuscript.] - Author: Bloom, J Harvey (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 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 Gloucestershire Archives
1851 - 1901 Warwickshire County Record Office
1851-91 Stratford upon Avon Library and Information Centre
1841-91 1901 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office

At Society of Genealogists :-
Gloucestershire 1851 Census index & transcription, vol. 24 : HO 107/2044; HO 107/2074; HO 107/2076 (parts) - North East Gloucestershire [parishes in cross county districts - Evesham, Stratford on Avon & Shipston on Stour registration districts]: Index to the 1851 Census for Gloucestershire [Microfiche.] - Published Gloucestershire FHS, 1999 - Author Gloucestershire FHS (comp.)

Gloucestershire 1851 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district HO 107/2076 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
Surname index 1851 census Warwickshire, vol. 13 : Shipston on Stour: Warwickshire 1851 census indexes - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.)

Warwickshire 1851 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district HO 107/2076 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996

Warwickshire 1861 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district RG/9 2237-2240 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996

Warwickshire 1891 census returns: Shipston on Stour registration district RG 12/2484-2486 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003

Worcestershire 1851 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district HO 107/2076 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Shipston and Blackwell: Manor books c.1785, 18th and 19th cents; Manor Court books (draft) 1812-1907

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

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