Quatt, Shropshire Family History Guide
Quatt is an Ancient Parish in the county of Shropshire.
Other places in the parish include: Quatt Malvern and Quatt Jervis or Quatt Jarvis.
Parish church: St. Andrew
Parish registers begin: 1672
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Quatt
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
QUATT, a parish in Bridgnorth district, Salop; adjacent to the river Severn, 1¾ mile NE by N of Hampton-Lode r. station, and 4 SSE of Bridgnorth. It. Consists of the townships of Q.-Jervis and Q.-Malvern; and it has a post-office under Bridgnorth. Acres, 2,674. Real property, £4,113. Pop. in 1861, 485. Houses, 69. The manor, with Dudmaston Hall, belongs to the Rev. F. H. Wolryche Whitmore, who is the chief landowner. There are traces of a Roman camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, Value, £430. Patrons, the Trustees of the late W. W. Whitmore, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1763; has a tower; and contains an ancient font, and monuments of the Wolryches. There is a parochial school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Quatt; or Quatt Malvern. A parish in the Chelmarsh division of the hundred of Stottesden, a rectory, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, the deanery of Lapley and Treizull, and archdeaconry of Stafford. 61 houses, 342 inhabitants. 4 ¼ miles south-east of Bridgnorth. Quatt Malvern parish extends into the liberties of Bridgnorth.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Quatt Jarvis
Shropshire Gazetteer 1824
Quatt Jarvis. A township in the parish of Quatt Malvern.
Source: The Shropshire Gazetteer, with an Appendix, including a Survey of the County and Valuable Miscellaneous Information, with Plates. Printed and Published by T. Gregory, Wem, 1824
Parish Records
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Poll Books
Quatt, Poll Book 1865
Below are the names of those that voted in the election of July 1865 between Col. The Hon. P. E. Herbert, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., and R. Jasper More, Esq.
Poll Book of the Election, July 1865 for the Southern Division of Shropshire.
Bridgnorth Polling District
Quatt, Parish of
719 Carr Edward, clerk, dead
720 Duthie Adam Gordon
721 France John Smith
722 Jones Edward
723 Whitmore Wolryche, Clerk
724 Minor Samuel, see 577 916
725 Wilson James Mitchell
Directories
Quatt Cassey Shropshire Directory 1875
Quatt is a parish, comprising the townships of Quatt Malvern and Quatt Jervis, 132 miles from London, four from Bridgnorth, and nine from Kidderminster railway station, in the Southern division of the county, Chelmarsh division of Stottesden hundred, Bridgnorth borough, and diocese of Lichfield; it is bounded by the Severn to the west. The church of St. Andrew is a venerable fabric of free stone and brick, in good repair. The living is a rectory, yearly value £430, with residence, in the gift of, and held by, the Rev. Francis H. Wolryche Whitmore, M.A. Here is the South-Eastern Shropshire District school, for children belonging to the several unions of Bridgnorth, Cleobury Mortimer, Madeley, and Seisden; it is capable of accommodating 220 children; here is also a parish school. About four miles from Quatt are the remains of a Roman camp, called the Walls. Dudmaston Hall, the seat of the Rev. Francis H. Wolryche Whitmore, M.A., is neat mansion of brick and stone. The Rev. Francis H. Wolryche Whitmore, M.A., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The charities amount to about £12 yearly. The soil varies from extreme light sand to strong clay; the subsoil is similar. The area is 2,674 acres, and the population of the parish in 1861 was 485; gross estimated rental, £4,146; rateable value, £3,876.
Letters through Bridgnorth arrive at 8 25 a.m.; and dispatched at 5 15 p.m.
Collector of Taxes, William Walling.
Carr Misses, Rectory
Homer Thos. Keelinge, esq., Elm cott
Spence Mrs., Dudmaston hall
Whitmore Rev. Francis H. Wolryche, M.A., J.P.
Bache William, farmer, Mose
Bowen Thomas, farmer, Wootton
Brewster Richard and Sidney, farmers, Mose
Craig Mary, farmer, Wootton
Duthie Adam Gordon, farmer
Fisher George, artificial manure manuf
Gorton Edward, gardener
Higton Charles, saddler
Howell Joseph, wood ranger
Ireland John Smith, farmer, Dudmaston lodge
Jones Edward, farmer, Lye hall
Littleford John, farmer, Mose
Roden John James, blacksmith
Spence Andrew and Charles, farmers, Little Holt
Spence Chas., steward to the trustees of the late W. W. Whitmore, esq.
Walling Wm., grocer and collector of land, income, and assessed taxes
Wilson Sarah, farmer
Source: Edward Cassey & Co.’s History, Gazetteer, & Directory of Shropshire. Printed Shrewsbury 1875.
Administration
- County: Shropshire
- Civil Registration District: Bridgnorth
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Trysull
- Poor Law Union: Bridgnorth
- Hundred: Stottesdon
- Province: Canterbury