BMSGH HomeSHIPSTON ON STOUR
Status:
A chapel in Tredington Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish and Ecclesiastical Parish in 1719, ecclesiastically including Tidmington, a chapel in Tredington Ancient Parish, which civilly became separate at that time. Transferred in 1931 from Worcestershire to Warwickshire.[25]
Location:
O.S. Ref: SP260406
11 miles S.E. of Stratford-upon-Avon, on the A3400
Parish Church:
St.Edmund, Church Rd
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1918, Archdeaconry of Warwick & Diocese of Coventry (1918 - *)[25]
Hundred:
A detached 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:
Tredington; Honington (Warwickshire); Barcheston (Warwickshire); Tidmington; Stretton on the Foss (Warwickshire) [1]
Parish Registers:
| Coverage | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcripts at WLHC | Marriages | 1572-1812 | [27] [20] |
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 | 1727-1885 |
| Marriages | 1727-1895 | |
| Particular Baptist | Births | 1783-1836 |
| Quaker Meeting | Christenings | 1777-1814 |
Register Copies:
At Warwickshire County Record Office :-
Banns: Originals: 1754-1770, 1823 - 1959
Christenings 1573-1958 Marriages 1572-1976 Burials 1572-1865
Microform: Christenings 1572-1875 Marriages 1572-1876 Burials 1572-1868 Banns: 1754-1876
Christenings 1572-1669 Marriages 1571-1812 Burials 1572-1625, 1650-56 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]
At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
SHIPSTON ON STOUR : banns 1873-1933 [Microfilm.] Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985
SHIPSTON ON STOUR : Marriages 1572-1812: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 22 - Worcestershire, vol. 1 [CD-ROM] IN: Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 22 - Worcestershire, vol. 1 Published London : Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1901 Author Phillimore, W P W ed. Author Carter, W F ed.
SHIPSTON ON STOUR : Marriages(Index) 1651-75: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] IN: Boyd's marriage index Published , 1925-55 Author Boyd, Percival ed. Source D: P Boyd.
Nonconformist:Baptist
Births 1776-82 Christenings 1783-1836 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [30]
Births / Christenings 1781-1848 Deaths / Burials 1782-1850 ; Members / Converts 1780-1850 Warwickshire County Record Office
Quaker
Births / Christenings 1777-1814 Warwickshire County Record Office
At Society of Genealogists :-
SHIPSTON ON STOUR (Baptist Chapel) : Births 1783-1836: Worcestershire registers, vol. 1 [Photocopy.] IN: Worcestershire registers, vol. 1 Published 1984 Author Tooke, Jean (transcription.) Source D: J Tooke
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 Source S: Quaker FHS.
Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Edmund BMSGH Shop
Shipston on Stour Society of Friends Burial Ground: Transcripts of register of burials 1865-69, 1879 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [52]
At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
Local notes [on Shipstone on Stour] (includes some Monumental Inscriptions) : reprinted from Stratford on Avon Herald: Warwickshire tracts, vol. 1 IN: Stratford on Avon Herald Published , Nd. Author Bloom, J Harvey
SHIPSTON ON STOUR : Monumental Inscriptions in the churchyard: Worcestershire Churchyard Inscriptions [Manuscript.] IN: Worcestershire Churchyard Inscriptions Published , 1911 Author Bloom, J Harvey (transcription.)
SHIPSTON ON STOUR
(St. Edmund) : Monumental Inscriptions [Typescript.] IN:
Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 24 Published
Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy &
Heraldry, 1989 Author Birmingham & Midland
Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (transcription.) Source D:
Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
Census Records:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.
Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses. Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.
Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.
Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:1841 1901 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 Gloucestershire Archives
1851 - 1901 Warwickshire County Record Office
1851-91 Stratford upon Avon Library and Information Centre
1841-91 1901 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office
At Society of Genealogists :-
Gloucestershire 1851 Census index & transcription, vol. 24 : HO 107/2044; HO 107/2074; HO 107/2076 (parts) - North East Gloucestershire [parishes in cross county districts - Evesham, Stratford on Avon & Shipston on Stour registration districts]: Index to the 1851 Census for Gloucestershire [Microfiche.] - Published Gloucestershire FHS, 1999 - Author Gloucestershire FHS (comp.)
Gloucestershire 1851 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district HO 107/2076 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
Surname index 1851 census Warwickshire, vol. 13 : Shipston on Stour: Warwickshire 1851 census indexes - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.)
Warwickshire 1851 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district HO 107/2076 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
Warwickshire 1861 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district RG/9 2237-2240 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
Warwickshire 1891 census returns: Shipston on Stour registration district RG 12/2484-2486 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003
Worcestershire 1851 census returns : Shipston on Stour registration district HO 107/2076 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Shipston and Blackwell: Manor books c.1785, 18th and 19th cents; Manor Court books (draft) 1812-1907
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.
Directories:
SHIPSTON upon STOUR, a market town and parish
forming, with the parishes of Tidmington and Tredington, a detached
portion of
the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER,
being
locally in the Kington division of the hundred of Kington, county of
Warwick,
16 miles (S. by W.) from Warwick, and 83 (N.W. by W.) from London,
containing 1562
inhabitants. This town is said to derive its name from having been
formerly one
of the largest markets for sheep in the kingdom; it is situated on the
river Stour,
in a fertile and rather hilly country, at about two miles distance from
the
Stratford upon Avon and Moreton railway: there was formerly a large
manufacture
of shag, which has quite declined, and it has now little trade of any
description. The Dean and Chapter of Worcester, who possess the
manorial
rights, hold a court annually, at which a constable is appointed. The
market is
on Thursday, and there are fairs on the third Tuesday in April, June
22nd, the
last Tuesday in August, and the Tuesday after the 10th of October. The
living
is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Tidmington annexed, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at
£5. 7. 8½ ,
and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, and of the
Principal
and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, the former presenting to every
third
vacancy. The church is dedicated to St. Edmund. The Baptists, Society
of
Friends, and Wesleyan Methodists, have each a place of worship.
Endowments for
the instruction of children were bequeathed by John Pittway, in 1706,
and by
George Marshall, in 1747, the latter amounting to £39 per
annum, and the National
school is well attended; there are also various small bequests for the
poor of
the town. [Topographical Dictionary of
England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]
© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
Comments, additions, corrections etc to Arthur Lewis
Last updated on 12th July 2011