STOULTON

Status:
A township in Kempsey Ancient Parish which had a separate civil identity early. It was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1794. Abolished ecclesiastically in 1922 to help create Stoulton with Drake's Broughton Ecclesiastical Parish.[ [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO906498
5 miles S.E. of Worcester on the A44
Wolverton is a hamlet 1 mile north [57]
Broughton is a chapelry 2½ miles N.N.W. Wolverton Magna & Wolverton Paron are hamlets. [11]

Parish Church:
St. Edmund

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Peculiar of the Dean & Chapter of Worcester.[1] Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [25]

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

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Whiteladies Aston; Peopleton; Pershore Holy Cross; Norton Juxta Kempsey; Whittington [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1542-1962	[5]
	Marriages	1542-1837	[5]
	Burials	1542-1970	[5]
	Banns	1755-87	[5]
Originals at WRO	Marriages	1542-1987	[12]
	Banns	1824-1970	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1614 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1721-1875
	Marriages	1722-1837

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Edmund BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Edmund Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Edmund: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1992 - Author Farmer, G R (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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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 1677-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Stoulton cum Wadborough: Accounts 1744-9

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Stoulton C E School
Log book - 1877 - 95 - Ref: BA 1185

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:
STOULTON, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 3¾ miles (N.W.) from Pershore, containing 380 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, endowed with £600 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £900 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Earl Somers. The church is dedicated to St. Edmund. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 8th February 2010

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