DIOCESE: Worcester HUNDRED: Barlichway UNION: Alcester
ADJOINING PARISHES: Alcester , Kinwarton, Haselor, Exhall (Near Alcester), Wixford, Salford Priors, Weethley, and Inkberrow (in Worcestershire).
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1588-1938 Marriages: 1588-1980 Burials: 1588-1894 Banns 1701-1879 (with gaps).
Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1623 WOR
IGI: Christenings: 1592-1872, Marriages: 1591-1895. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)
MONUMENTAL
INSCRIPTIONS: Church WAR
Yard
to 1812 STR Yard
(ADLHS)
WAR
WOR . Inscriptions on coffins in
Ragley Old Vault.
PROBATE RECORDS: WOR
CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1831 Householders named/household numbers (Oversley township only) WAR
BMSGH SI v12
INDEXES See Appendix II
Burial 1672-1837
Marriage 1718-1837
Poor Law c1690-1860
Pre-1841 Census
MANORIAL RECORDS: 1318-1762 (Oversley) STR Map of manor (Oversley) Court Rolls 1538.
OTHER SOURCES: Seymour papers and deeds.
George Clarke, coach- builder. Photographs etc. 1900-1937.
See also note under Alcester re index of persons in the area.
Ragley, Local Notes and Queries, R.Savage.
Notes and Queries relating principally to Alcester, Arrow and Ragley c1895
BIR
Ragley as it was and as it is, A History of Ragley and Arrow, 1892 BIR
Laytons of Oversley, 1650-1850 BMSGH(LL)
See also under Alcester.