TIDMINGTON

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
TIDMINGTON, a parish forming, with Shipston upon Stour and Tredington, a detached portion of the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, being locally in the Kington division of the hundred of Kington, county of Warwick, 1½ mile (S. by E.) from Shipston upon Stour, containing 70 inhabitants. The living is a rectory with Shipston upon Stour, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church is partly in the early style of English architecture, and partly of later date. Tidmington and Shipston upon Stour were formerly townships in the parish of Tredington, from which they were separated by act of parliament, in the 6th of George I., and made a distinct parish; on this occasion the rectory of Tredington was divided into three parts. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A chapel in Tredington Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish in 1719 and ecclesiastically severed at the same time to help create Shipston on Stour Ecclesiastical Parish. Transferred in 1931from Worcestershire to Warwickshire. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP261385
On the A34 to Oxford, South of Shipston-on-Stour

Parish Church:
Church of the Ascension

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1918, Archdeaconry of Warwick & Diocese of Coventry (1918 - *) [25]

Hundred:
A detached portion of Upper Oswaldslow, Worcestershire being locally in the Kington division of Kington Hundred, Warwickshire.[44] [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Shipston-on-Stour [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Shipston on Stour; Barcheston (Warwickshire); Burmington (Warwickshire); Todenham (Gloucestershire); Stretton on the Foss (Warwickshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1693-1812	[27] [20]
	General	G1611-1851	[27]
	Bishop's Transcripts	1611-1837	[27]

No parish registers held at Worcestershire Record Office. The originals are at Warwickshire County Record Office

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1691-1803
	Marriages	1693-1833

Register Copies:
Banns: Originals: 1754-1770, 1827-1937 Warwickshire County Record Office
Microfilm: Banns 1827-37 Coventry Archives [48]
Christenings 1691-1811 Marriages 1693-1833 Burials 1691-1812 Warwickshire County Record Office [66]
Christenings 1611-1851 Marriages 1611-1851 Burials 1611-1851 BTs 1611-1837 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :_
Christenings, Marriages & Burials (BTs) 1611-39, 1662-1837, Christenings 1691-1850, Marriages 1693-1833, 1840-51, Burials 1691-1851, Banns 1754-59 [Microfiche.] - Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1999 - Author Brittain, M F (trans.)
Marriages 1693-1812: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 22 - Worcestershire, vol. 1 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1901 - Authors: Phillimore, W P W ed. & Carter, W F ed.

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Church of the Ascension BMSGH microfiche [53]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :
MIs in the churchyard: Worcestershire Churchyard Inscriptions [Manuscript.] - Published , 1910 - Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
MIs: in Bloom's Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, part 2 [Manuscript.] - Author Bloom, J Harvey (trans.)
Church of the Ascension: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991 - Author Page, Alan et al. (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 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 - 1901 Warwickshire County Record Office [58]
1851-91 Stratford upon Avon Library and Information Centre
1841-1891 1901 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office
Warwickshire 1891 census returns: Shipston on Stour registration district RG 12/2484-2486 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003 Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial1813-37 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Proceedings of manorial court of Tidmington (in Evesham Abbey Court Book) 1543

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