THROCKMORTON

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
THROCKMORTON, a chapelry in the parish of FLADBURY, middle division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 3¼ miles (N. E.) from Pershore, containing 153 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A chapel in Fladbury Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish in 1866 [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO981498
4 miles N.E. of Pershore

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Peculiar of the incumbent [1]

Hundred:
Middle Oswaldslow [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Naunton Beauchamp; Bishampton; Fladbury; Pinvin; Peopleton [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1546-1812	[5]
	Marriages	1546-1837	[5]
	Burials	1546-1812	[5]
	Banns	1755-1820	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	1813-1993	[12]
	Marriages	1838-1995	[12]
	Burials	1834-1988	[12]
	General	1546-1837	[12]
	Banns	1824-1993	[12]

Some entries were made both in Throckmorton & Fladbury parish registers. Burials took place at Fladbury [5]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1546-1812
	Marriages	1545-1754

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1717-71, 1778-85, 1790-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973
Marriages (Index) 1545-1754 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Chapelry BMSGH microfiche [53]
Chapelry Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
Throckmorton (chapelry) : Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 5 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1985 - Authors: Boaz, Jeremy & Margaret (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.
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:
1841-61 1881-91 1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1661-1751 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Compotus rolls 1406-7, 1425-6, 1430-1, 1436-40, 1445-67, 1470-2, 1478-82, 1487-9; Rental 1695-1702, 1759-c.1805

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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Last updated on 30th December 2008

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