UPTON SNODSBURY

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel in Pershore Holy Cross, which itself was a part of Pershore Abbey but a separate parish at the Dissolution. Upton Snodsbury was a separate parish by 1535.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO943544
7 miles east of Worcester along the A422
Cowsdown is a hamlet 1 mile south. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Kenelm

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

Hundred:
Oswaldslow (until 1760), Upper Pershore (from 1760) [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Crowle; Huddington; Grafton Flyford; North Piddle; Naunton Beauchamp; Peopleton; Whiteladies Aston; Churchill; Broughton Hackett [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1577-1968	[5]
	Marriages	1587-1965	[5]
	Burials	1587-1965	[5]
	Banns	1756-1811; 1824-1965	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Marriages	1587-1837	[27] [21]
	General	1577-1837	[27]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1577-1875
	Marriages	1577-1876
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	? -1669
	Marriages	? -1669

Register Copies:
St.Kenelm: Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1577-1837 BMSGH microfiche [9]
Transcript: 1577-1837 Dudley Archives & Local History Service [62]
Marriages 1587-1837 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1577-1812, Marriages 1587-1647, 1662-1751, 1780, Burials 1587-1812 [Manuscript.]

Christenings, Marriages & Burials (Index) 1577-1837 [Microfiche.] - Published Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Author: Sargeant, E H (comp.)

Christenings, Marriages & Burials (Index) 1577-1837 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah - Author: Genealogical Society of Utah (trans.)

Christenings, Marriages & Burials (Index) 1577-1837: Worcestershire Parish Registers Society, 2nd series, vol. 1 - Published : Worcestershire Parish Register Society, 1950 - Author: Sargeant, E H (comp.)

Marriages 1587-1647, 1662-1837: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 100 - Worcestershire, vol. 2 [CD-ROM] - Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1910 - Author: Phillimore, W P W ed.

Marriages (Index) 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Kenelm BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Kenelm Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Kenhelm: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 5 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1986 - Author Boaz, J et al. (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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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 1660-1840Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Alphabetical index to registers 1577-1965
Parish Officers' account book 1720-1856
Overseers' of the poor accounts 1794-1828
Poor rate assessments 1819-33
Vestry meetings minute book 1856-1923

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Upton Snodsbury School
Attendance register - Boys - 1870-71 - Ref: BA 11547/3(vi)
Attendance register - Girls - 1870-71 - Ref: BA 11547/3(vii)

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:
UPTON-SNODSBURY, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 6½ miles (E. by S.) from Worcester, containing 291 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the Rev. Henry Green. The church is dedicated to St. Kenelme. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 9th February 2010

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