SUCKLEY

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
SUCKLEY, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 5½ miles (E.S.E.) from Bromyard, containing, with the chapelries of Alfrick and Lulsley, 1187 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £26. 19. 4½ and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Courts leet and baron are annually held here. A school for the education of the poor is endowed with about £8 per annum. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish
Included a chapel at Alfrick & a chapel at Lulsley. Each was a separate Civil Parish in 1866 and the two united ecclesiastically in 1912 as 'Alfrick & Lulsley' Ecclesiastical Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO721517
11 miles S.W. of Worcester about 1 mile from the Herefordshire border
Crew's Hill is 1 mile N.E. [57]

Parish Church:
St. John Baptist

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

Hundred:
Upper Doddingtree [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Knightwick; Lulsley; Alfrick; Cradley (Herefordshire); Acton Beauchamp; Stanford Bishop (Herefordshire); Bromyard (Herefordshire); Whitbourne (Herefordshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1695-1941	[5]
	Marriages	1695-1837	[5]
	Burials	1695-1976	[5]
	Banns	1754-1812	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1883-1945	[12]

The parish registers included entries for Alfrick & Lulsley for the period 1695 to 1732.[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1613-1877

Nonconformist:
Countess of Huntingdon (See Leigh Sinton)

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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1696-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Account of boundaries 18th cent.; Copy presentments 19th cent.; Court book 1758-90; Court roll 1587-91, 1603-95 with gaps, 1748; Rental 1558-9, late 16th cent.; Suit lists 1694-1797; Valuation 1744; Arrears of rents 1743-4; Rent rolls 1744-5, 1748-9; Accounts 1744-8

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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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 2nd April 2008

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