WICHENFORD

Descriptive Notes:
A 17th century half-timbered black-and-white dovecote in the village is administered by the National Trust. 

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel in Worcester St Helen Ancient Parish. A separate parish at the Dissolution.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO787601
6 miles N.W. of Worcester

Parish Church:
St. Lawrence

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

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

Poor Law Union:
Martley [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Little Witley; Holt; Grimley; Hallow; Kenswick; Worcester St John Bedwardine; Cotheridge; Broadwas; Doddenham; Martley [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1690-1959	[5]
	Marriages	1690-1976	[5]
	Burials	1690-1945	[5]
	Banns	1857-1954	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1755-91	[12]

The earliest extant register dates back to 1690. There is a transcript of the register for 1599-1690. [5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1613 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1599-1875

Register Copies:
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1599-1700 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1961

Marriages (Index) 1690-1812: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.

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:
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
Wichenford 1841-1901
Wichenford & Kenswick 1861

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1599-1852 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Extents and other papers Early 18th century; Extents 1729; Court papers 1765-1813; Court rolls 1661-2; Manor books 1781-1860, 18th cent.; Rental 1695-1702, 1759-c1805; Stewards' accounts 1808-33; Surveys and particulars of property 17th-19th cents.; Surveys, valuations, manor books, rent rolls etc 17th-19th cents.

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Minute book including list of apprentices 1769-1829
Minute book & account book including list of parish officials & election of apprentices 17th & 18th centuries.

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Wichenford C.E. Primary School
Admission registers - 1903-1981 - Ref: BA 9888/3(iii)
Log books. - 1880-1976 - Ref: BA 8820/2
Note: This school closed in 1981.

Wichenford Primary School
Log book - 1976-80 - Ref: BA 10904
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:
WICHENFORD, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 6¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Worcester, containing 334 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £9. 10 and in the patronage of the Rev. William Digby, Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. [Topographical 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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