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:
At BMSGH Shop
St.Edmund

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St.Edmund 

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St.Edmund

At Society of Genealogists [59]
STOULTON (St. Edmund) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.]   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11   Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1992   Author Farmer, G R (transcription.)   Source D: BMSGH 

War Memorials:
For the names of those commemorated on a War Memorial at  St Edmund's Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Stoulton St Edmund's Church

and for the names of those included on a War Memorial at Stoulton Village Hall see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Stoulton Village Hall

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 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 16th December 2011

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