ALCESTER
This is a small market town nine miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon
and only two miles from Ragley Hall, the home of the Seymour
family. It is at the junction of roads from Evesham, Stratford,
Birmingham and Droitwich. It dates back at least to Roman times.
Tudor cottages surround the church in which is the splendid tomb of
Fulk Greville. The Town Hall dates from the seventeenth century,
during which time dissenters were numerous in the town. Kings
Coughton is within the parish.
DIOCESE:Worcester.
HUNDRED: Barlichway.
UNION: Alcester
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Parish Registers: |
Christenings: 1560-1943 |
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Marriages: 1561-1983 |
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Burials: 1560-1959 |
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Banns:
1791-1802 |
Bishops Transcripts: Begin 1612 WOR
| IGI: |
Christenings: 1560-1754, 1782-1875 |
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Marriages: 1561-1876 |
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Presbyterian Chapel
Christenings: 1774-1836 |
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Widely available;
BMSGH(PS) |
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Nonconformist: |
Baptist:Alcester and Astwood Z 1788-1837 Baptism: 1800-1837 WOR |
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Presbyterian/Unitarian, Old Chapel Z
1774-1836
Baptism: 1777-1834 PRO
Z 1765-1874
Baptism: 1774-1836 WAR
Z 1774-1836
Baptism: 1774-1834 COV |
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Monumental Inscriptions: |
Parish Church and Yard STR |
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Parish Church and Yard; Baptist Church and Yard; Cemetery,
Birmingham Rd. WAR &
WOR (ADLHS) |
Probate Records: WOR
| INDEXES |
Burial 1681-1837 |
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Marriage 1561-1654,1656-1837 |
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Poor Law. c1690-1860 |
MANORIAL RECORDS: 1438-1440, 1752 STR
1545-1571 BIR From 1558 WAR
Borough Rentals 1545, 1552.
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DEEDS: |
Collection of deeds, leases etc 1765-1920. |
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Deeds etc Alcester, Bidford, Ipsley and Studley 1648-1835. |
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Calendar of Mediaeval Deeds Relating to Alcester preserved WAR |
OTHER SOURCES:
- W.J. Adcock, records 1861-1896, Diaries1879-1890.
- Adcock, chemist, Alcester, 1872-1972 (1972).
- Cooke, Roberts and Daniels of Alcester, Leamington Spa, Packwood,
- Rowington, Stratford-upon-Avon, Tanworth and Warwick, deeds and
family papers 18th-20thc. Haynes Family Papers from 1809.
- Deeds, farming accounts and genealogical notes on Hyett, Freer
(alias Frier), Farr and Gwinnett families relating to property in
Alcester and elsewhere. Jephcott, pedigree etc.
- Survey of Alcester Trades and Tradesmen: from printed Directories, 1829-1932.
Family of Greville, J.Edmonson (1766).
- The Hemmings of Alcester and Oxford, E.A.B. Barnard (1931).
- A History of Alcester, A.J. Gwinnett 1954.
- Alcester, published by The Alcester Chronicle 1957.
- Population and its Geography in England 1500-1730, R.M. Smith (partly based on
a study of Alcester PR's).
- Some Aspects of the History of Alcester: 17th and 18th Centuries (Thesis 1967).
- Alcester, Tudor Edwards WWM Dec 1960.
- King's Coughton, A Warwickshire Hamlet, G.Edward Saville, privately
printed 1973. (Lists field names and deals with estates owned by
Kettle, Fisher, Chatterway, Middleton, Ward, Spilsby and other
families. There are inventories of King's Coughton inhabitants, a
chapter on buildings, lists of tenants and a list of people known
to have lived in the hamlet from the 1400s to 1915.)
- The Brandishes of Alcester, family of old time doctors (newspaper cutting)
BIR
- The life of Fulke Greville. R.A. Rebholz (1971) BIR
- Hemming family: original correspondence 1791-1819 BIR
- Local Notes and Queries relating mainly to Alcester, Arrow and Ragley c1895
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LOCAL SOCIETIES
The Alcester and District Local History Society compiled an index
of over 3,000 personal names taken from Warwickshire sources. This
is not currently open for enquiries. The Society also published a
series of Occasional Papers, covering Alcester and the Lower Arrow
Valley, copies of which are at Alcester Library and possibly at
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WAR
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[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]