STONE

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
STONE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 2¼ miles (S.E. by E.) from Kidderminster containing 464 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £15, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains, over the northern door, some small remains of Norman architecture: this was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Chaddesley-Corbet. There are two spinning-mills in the parish. The free school, founded pursuant to the will of the Rev. Mr. Hill, B. D., is endowed with upwards of twenty acres of land, and a house for the master. This parish possesses a valuable charity of unknown origin, consisting of some land, near Stourbridge, containing clay for making fire-bricks, and producing, on an average, nearly £700 per annum, which, with the dividends of about £5000 three per cent, stock, is applied to repairing the church, and for charitable purposes. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel in Chaddesley Corbett Ancient Parish. A separate parish by 1535.[25] [44]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO862750
2 miles S.E. of Kidderminster & 7 miles N.W. of Bromsgrove on the A448
Hoo Brook is a hamlet 1 mile west ... partly in the Foreign of Kidderminster; Shenstone is a hamlet about 1½ miles south from the church; Dunclent is to the north. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Mary

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:
Kidderminster; Chaddesley Corbett; Rushock; Elmley Lovett; Hartlebury [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1601-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1601-1960	[5]
	Burials	1601-1966	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	General	G1601-1812	[27]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1611 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1754-1875
	Marriages	1754-1882

Register Copies:
St Mary: Christenings, Marriages & Burials1601-1812 BMSGH microfiche [9]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1601-1871, Marriages & Burials 1601-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966
Births 1907-65, Christenings 1871-1966, Marriages 1813-1960, Burials 1813-1966 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1966
St. Mary: Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1601-1812, Marriages 1827-28 - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1989 - Author Potter, C (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]
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.)

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]
Communicants Registers 1845-75
Stone Charity Account Book 1853-91
Overseers of the Poor Accounts 1824-71
Churchwardens Accounts 1825-85
Stone School Charity Acccounts 1853-80
Acccount Book 1872-80
Charity Minute Book 1873-87
Report of charities 1896
Notes on selected parish records by John Amphlett of Clent, 1904, with selected records numbered 1-194, 15th - 18th cent
Deeds, charity, poor law & other papers selected & segregated by Amphlett, numbered 1-46, 14th-19th cent. Poor law accounts 17th & 18th cent, numbered 47-234
Deeds relating to Stone charity numbered 235-242, 17th - 19th cent
Memorial & particulars of messuages etc. belonging to the poor of Stone, numbered 243 1711
Deed relating to parochial charity no.244 - 1883, 245 - 1889
Charity deeds no 246-249 1853-69
Order of Exchange - Stone Charity no 250 - 1910
Deeds re property, coal, clay & ironstone mines in Old Swinford Nos 251-253 1817-18

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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