TREDINGTON

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
TREDINGTON, a parish forming, with the parishes of Shipston upon Stour, and Tidmington, a distinct portion of the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, being locally in the Kington division of the hundred of KLNGTON, county of WARWICK, 2¼ miles (N.) from Shipston upon Stour, containing, with the hamlets of Armscott, BlackwelL, Darlingscott, and Newbold, 1032 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in two portions, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Rector, jointly rated in the king's books at £99.17.6 and in the patronage of the Principal and Fellows of Jesus' College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Gregory. This parish was divided, under an act passed in the 6th of George I., when the townships of Shipston and Tidmington were separated from it, and constituted a distinct parish. The river Stour runs through the parish. Here was formerly a monastery, the remaining part of which is now the rectory house. There is a small endowed school in the parish. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Including a chapel at Shipston on Stour & a chapel at Tidmington, each of which was a separate Civil Parish in 1719. The two were ecclesiastically severed & united at the same time to create Shipston on Stour Ecclesiastical Parish. Transferred in 1931 from Worcestershire to Warwickshire.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP259435
2 miles from Shipston-on-Stour on the A3400

Darlingscott is a hamlet as are Blackwell, 1 mile west and Longdon,1 mile S.W. The hamlets of Newbold-upon-Stour, 2 miles north, Armscott, 2 miles N.W. and Talton ½ mile north, were formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1834. [57]

Parish Church:
St.Gregory

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Peculiar of the incumbent. [1] Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1918, Archdeaconry of Warwick & Diocese of Coventry (1918 - *) [25]

Hundred:
A distinct 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:
Alderminster; Ettington (Warwickshire); Halford (Warwickshire); Honington (Warwickshire); Shipston on Stour; Stretton on the Foss (Warwickshire); Ilmington (Warwickshire); Whitchurch (Warwickshire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1541-1838	[27]
	Marriages	1560-1837	[27]
	Burials	1560-1861	[27]
	Bishops' Transcripts	1608-1837	[27]

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

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1608 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1781-1885
	Marriages	1560-1895

Register Copies:
St Gregory (now Warwickshire): Baptisms 1541-1838, Marriages 1560-1837, Burials 1560-1861 Bishops' Transcripts 1608-1837 Poor Law 1710-1836 BMSGH microfiche [9]

Banns: Originals: 1823-1924 Warwickshire County Record Office
Christenings 1541-1981 Marriages 1560-1994 Burials 1560-1980 Warwickshire County Record Office [66]
Christenings 1541-1838 Marriages 1560-1837 Burials 1560-1861 Bishops' Transcripts 1608-1837 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Warws., Leics. & Rutland QM :
Births 1623-1837, 1636-1815, 1646-1762, Marriages 1648-1837, 1659-1794, 1668-1711, Burials 1659-1837, 1661-1836, 1636-1781 (includes Tamworth, Handsworth, West Bromwich, Rowley Regis, Lichfield, Wednesbury, Aldridge, Staffs.; Chipping Camden, Stow on the Wold, Sezincote, Glos.; Ratcliffe on Soar, Notts.; Warley, Oldbury, Salop; Shipston on Stour, Tredington, Old Swinford, Dudley, Stourbridge, Worcs.) [Microfilm.] - Published London : World Microfilms Publications, 1989

Christenings 1541-1981, Marriages 1560-1837, 1873-1964, Burials 1560-1861, banns 1754-1812, 1823-1934 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City Genealogical Society of Utah 1968 & 2002

Christenings (Index) 1781-1838 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973 - Author: Genealogical Society of Utah

St Gregory: Christenings 1541-52, 1559-1838, Marriages 1553-1837, Burials 1560-1861, BTs 1608-1837, poor law 1710-1836 [Microfiche.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1995 - Author Brittain, M F (trans.)

Nonconformist:
Methodist:
Newbold-on-Stour: Marriages 1963-74 Warwickshire County Record Office [66]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Gregory: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 3 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1983 - Author Tredington Women's Institute (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 1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 Gloucestershire Archives
1851 - 1901 Warwickshire County Record Office [58]
1851-91 Stratford Upon Avon Library
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:
Burial 1703-1861 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Shipston and Blackwell: Manor books (draft) 1812-1907
Tredington: Compotus roll 1524; Manor books 1781-1860; Rental 1695-1702, 1759-1805; Surveys and particulars of property 17th-19th cents.; Surveys, valuations, manor books, rent rolls etc. 17th-19th cents.
Proceedings of manorial court of Tadlyngton (in Evesham Abbey Court Book) 1543

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.

Other Sources:
Transcript: Poor Law documents 1710-1836 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [27]

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