Bordesley, Warwickshire Family History
Bordesley comprises of the following parishes:
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History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BORDESLEY, a hamlet in Aston parish, Warwick; within the south-eastern part of the town and borough of Birmingham. It contains the Birmingham stations of the Birmingham and Oxford and the Birmingham and Wolverhampton railways; and is traversed by those railways and by the Birmingham and Warwick canal. Acres, with Deritend, 1,690. Real property, £90,544. Pop. in 1851, 13,857; in 1861, 21,339. Houses, 4,418.
Camp Hill here, contiguous to the canal and the Gloucester railway, was the scene of Prince Rupert’s battle with the townsmen of Birmingham; and Bordesley Hall, near this, was burnt by the rioters in 1791. Streets and other thoroughfares are contiguous; and share in the general character and business of the town.
Two chapelries, Holy Trinity and St. Andrew, are in B.; the former a p. curacy, the later a vicarage, in the dio. of Worcester. Value of Holy Trinity, £300; of St. Andrew, £320. Patron of Holy Trinity, the Vicar of Aston; of St. Andrew, alternately the Bishop and five trustees.
Holy Trinity church was built in 1822, at a cost of £14,235; is a fine Gothic edifice, faced with stone; and has a grand eastern window and a beautiful altar-piece.
St. Andrew’s church was built in 1844, at a cost of upwards of £4,000; is in the early decorated style; and consists of nave, spacious chancel, and north aisle, with tower and spire.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Bordesley, a chapelry in the parish of Aston, forming part of the town of Birmingham. See Aston, Warwickshire.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
England’s Gazetteer 1752
Bordesley, (Warw.) originally a member of Aston, and the estate of the ancient family of the Paganets; from whom it descended to the Someries, Barons of Dudley, who had a court-leet here, to which the adjoining hamlets paid rents and service. It afterwards came, by marriage, to Sir Hugh Burnel; and from his family to the Lady Abergavenny, who gave it to her son, by her last husband, James, E. of Ormond, who being attainted in the R. of Edw. IV. it fell to that K. He gave it to Sir Thomas Erdington; but Sir Thomas Ormond by fine recovered the inheritance of it, and left it to his heiress Ann, married to Sir James St. Leger, whose grandson sold it, in the R. of Q. Eliz. to Ed. Arden, Esq; of Park-Hall, whose posterity enjoyed it in 1640.
Source: England’s Gazetteer; Stephen Whatley; 1752.
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Burton William and Charles, Bordesley and Digbeth, Birmingham, steel-toy and brass and iron-bedstead manufacturers, June 1, 1841.
Cole Viney, Bordesley, Warwickshire, victualler, July 8, 1831.
Faux Richard, Bordesley, Warwickshire, hop merchant, July 12, 1831.
Hiley John, Bordesley, Birmingham, builder, May 4, 1838.
Hooton Richard; Richard Richards; and William Wilks; Bordesley, Warwickshire, ironfounders, Aug. 16, 1825.
Hutchinson George, Bordesley, Warwickshire, dealer, March 11, 1826.
Minshull Charles, Bordesley, Aston, Birmingham, builder, April 8, 1828.
Moore Dan., Bordesley lron Works, near Birmingham, ironmaster, May 18, 1822.
Prosser Walter, Bordesley, Birmingham, builder, March 11, 1836.
Tonks George, sen.; Stephen Tonks; and George Tonks, jun. ; Bordesley, Birmingham, lamp manufacturers, June 5, 1835.
Parish Records
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Directories
Bordesley Birmingham 1777
Bentley, Thomas
Brooks, John
Cotterell, Isaac
Freeth, Benjamin
Kendall, Joseph
Lawrence, Wm.
Neeld, Widow
Phillips, J.
Ward, William
Watton, Thomas
Watton, John
Chamberlain, Thomas
Greaves, Joseph
Hill, Benjamin
Palmer, Sarah
Rhoades, Henry
Rock, John
Smallwood, George
Source: Birmingham 120 Years Ago. Being a Reprint of an old Directory, published in 1777. Scarse, Charles E. (Compiler & Editor). Printed Birmingham for Cornish Brothers, New Street, 1896.