WICKHAMFORD

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
WICKHAMFORD, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of WORCESTER, 2¼ miles (E. S. E.) from Evesham, containing 130 inhabitants. The living is a discharged perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Worcester rated in the king's books at £2. 4. 4½ , endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Limestone in abundance is obtained in the neighbourhood. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel to Evesham Abbey. It was a separate parish at the Dissolution.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP068423
About 3 miles S.E. of Evesham on the A44

Parish Church:
St. John the Baptist

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

Hundred:
Upper Blackenhurst [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Bengeworth; Badsey; Broadway; Childs Wyckharn (Gloucestershire); Hinton on the Green (Gloucestershire) [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1967	[5]
	Marriages	1556-1954	[5]
	Burials	1538-1966	[5]
	Banns	1826-1945	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1784	[27]
	Marriages	1536-1653, 1662-1784	[27]
	Burials	1538-1784	[27]
Originals at WRO	Banns	Listed with Aldington	[12]

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

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1701-1875
	Marriages	1700-1882
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1613-1700 (60%)

Register Copies:
Christenings 1538-1784 Marriages 1556-1784 Burials 1538-1784 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]
Christenings 1538-1929, 1945-67, Marriages 1556-1954, banns 1826-1945, Burials 1538-1790, 1814-1966; surveyors accounts book 1774-1876, census notes, church rate book & other accounts 1859-89 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah 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. 7 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1988 - Authors: Bushell, L (trans.) & Farmer, G (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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1538-1850 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court book 1632-50; Court rolls 1675, 1689-92, 1695, 1697-9, 1704, 1706 and 1710

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Surveyor's costs 1774-1825
Census notes 1851
Churchwardens & other accounts 1859-89
Overseers of the poor accounts 1848-67
Vestry meeting minutes 1854-1919
Assessments for the relief of the poor 1857-70
Parish receipts & expenditure on the highways in the Evesham area 1870
Notices to churchwardens & overseers of the poor 1870-1

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Wickhamford, Badsey & Aldington National School
See Badsey, Aldington & Wickhamford National School

A handlist of other records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 3rd April 2008

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