SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR

This parish was transferred from Worcestershire to Warwickshire in 1931. It is about ten miles south east of Stratford on the road to Oxford. There are a number of Georgian houses and old inns in this little market town. The church was rebuilt in 1855.

DIOCESE: Worcester. HUNDRED: Oswaldslow. UNION: Shipston

ADJOINING PARISHES: Tredington, Honington, Barcheston, Burmington, Stretton-on-Fosse, Tidmington.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1573-1958 Marriages: 1572-1976 Burials: 1572-1865 Banns 1754-1770, 1823-1959

Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1608 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1727-1876 S of F, Z 1777-1814 (on Worcester fiche). Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1572-1669, Marriages: 1571-1812, Burials: 1572-1625, 1650-1656 STR
Marriages: 1571- 1812 PHIL 1
Marriages: 1651-1675 BOYD MISC , SoG
Christenings: 1572-1875 Marriages: 1572-1876 Burials: 1572-1868 Banns 1754-1876 COV
Banns 1873-1933 SoG

NONCONFORMIST: Quaker: see Source Material. Z 1777-1814 WAR
Baptist: Z 1781-1848 Burials: 1782-1850
M Christenings: 1780-1850 WAR
Baptist Chapel: Z 1776-1836 WOR

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS; St.Edmund's BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: WOR (Miss E.M.H. Ibbotson, Lavender Cottage, Ilmington, Warwickshire has made a special study of Quaker wills in the area.)

CENSUS RETURNS:

1851-91 WAR

1851 BMSGH SI v.13SoG , BIR

1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

1851-1891 BCP , BMSGH(PS)x

ON LINE CENSUS TRANSCRIPTIONS
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1818 & 1820-1837
Poor Law c1690-1860

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1733-1864 STR
Survey of Demesne lands, late 18th century, Survey of copyhold holdings, late 18th century, Peculiar Court of Tredington (includes Shipston) Act Book 1576-1685.

DEEDS: Deeds and other records belonging to clients of the firm of Hancock & Co. of Shipston-on-Stour, 17th-19th centuries.
Deeds and papers relating to Ilmington, Shipston and Tredington 1745-1907 deposited by Hiron of Ilmington and Shipston.
Records of Bosley and Harper, valuers and Estate Agents of Shipston, 19th-20th centuries have many references to clients' properties.

OTHER SOURCES:

Account book of George Adams & Sons, Builders, 1799-1843.
Letters by William Parry, Vicar of Shipston 1747-1751 (some in Latin).
Articles have appeared in: WWM , Jan 1962, Oct 1967, Oct 1973.
Focus Vol.1 No.6 Dec 1978. Pre-1854 Shipston on Stour Weights and Measures Deficiencies, M.J.Evans TMA , Vol.10 No.4 June 1994.
Soliloquies of Old Shipston, being to some extent a history of the market town of Shipston upon Stour in the county of Worcester, P. Drinkwater, 1979 BMSGH(LL) Shipston-on-Stour & District Local History Society Occasional Paper Vol.1, 1984 BMSGH(LL)
W.I. Scrapbook 1965.
Shipston-on-Stour researchers page
LDS Film Numbers

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ] Comments, corrections and additions to Updates for TYAIW please

1851-91	WAR
1851	BMSGH SI v.13SoG , BIR
1881	BCP , BMSGH(PS)
1851-1891	BCP , BMSGH(PS)x