WHITE LADIES ASTON

Descriptive Notes:
In the earliest days of it's existence the parish was known as Aston Episcopi [or 'Bishop's Aston' ].
The parish was named after the Cistercian Nunnery of Whistones, to the North of Worcester, which held the manor from the mid-13th century until the Dissolution. On 28th August 1651Cromwell stayed a night at a house in White Ladies Aston before the battle of Worcester.

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Abolished ecclesiastically in 1924 to help create White Ladies Aston with Churchill Ecclesiastical Parish. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO922527
6 miles S.E. of Worcester & 5 miles N.W. of Pershore, between the A422 & A4538

Parish Church:
St. John Baptist

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

Hundred:
Lower Oswaldslow [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Pershore [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Churchill; Upton Snodsbury; Peopleton; Stoulton; Whittington; Spetchley [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1558-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1559-1966	[5]
	Burials	1559-1966	[5]
	Banns	1824-1948	[5]
Originals at WRO	Marriages	M1559-1975	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1604 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1558-1875
	Marriages	1813-1882

Register Copies:
Christenings 1558-1840, Marriages 1559-1706, 1719-1839, Burials 1559-1709, 1718-1840: Worcestershire registers, vol. 1 [Typescript.] - Published , 1993 - Author: Mulholland, J H (trans.) Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.John the Baptist BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.John the Baptist Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. John the Baptist: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 9 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991 - Author: Somerton, D K (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:
Burial1660-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Aston Episcopi: Manor books 1781-1860, 18th cent.; Parliamentary survey 17th cent.; Surveys, valuations, manor books, rent rolls etc 17th-19th cents.
Bishop's Aston: Rental 1695-1702, 1759-c.1805
Kempsey with Aston Episcopi: Court rolls 1664
White Ladies Aston: Stewards' accounts 1808-33

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers of the poor accounts 1815-56
Poor rate assessment 1826
Vestry & parish meeting minutes 1842-83
Vestry, parish & PCC meeting minutes 1842-1948
Poor rate books 1862-64
Highway rate books 1862-64
Highway rate book 1862-64
Poor law assessment valuation 1862
List of services & preachers 1911-24

Directories:
ASTON (WHITE LADIES), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 5 miles (E. S.E,) from Worcester, containing 342 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishop of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £6. 17. 3½ and in the patronage of R. Berkeley, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In the manor-house Oliver Cromwell fixed his head-quarters the night before the battle of Worcester. [Typographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 9th February 2010

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