Bromsgrove Worcestershire Family History Guide

Bromsgrove is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Worcestershire.

Other places in the parish include: Lickey and Chadwick.

Parish church: St. John The Baptist

Parish registers begin: 1590

The registers previous to 1812 are as follows: (i) all entries 1590 to 1652; (ii) 1653 to 1719; (iii) 1719 to 1733; (iv) 1734 to 1754, also baptisms and burials 1783 to 1793; (v) baptisms and burials 1753 to 1803; (vi) baptisms and burials 1774 to 1783; (vii) marriages 1754 to 1773; (viii) marriages 1773 to 1812; (ix) baptisms and burials 1793 to 1806; (x) baptisms and burials 1806 to 1815.

Other churches:

• All Saints’ Church – The ecclesiastical parish of All Saints was formed in 1875. The church was erected 1872–4.
• Christ Church, Catshill – formed from Bromsgrove in 1844
• Holy Trinity, Lickey – formed from Bromsgrove in 1858
• St. Mary, Dodford – formed from Bromsgrove in 1908
• Chapels of ease: Linthurst and at Rubery in Lickey,

Nonconformists in Bromsgrove include:

• Roman Catholic church at Bromsgrove was erected in 1860.
• Bromsgrove: Baptist, Congregational, Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels.
• Dodford: Baptist chapel founded 1865.
• Sidemoor: Methodist chapel, Mission chapel.
• Catshill and Bourneheath: Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
• Lickey: Wesleyan, Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Adjacent Parishes

• Kings Norton
• Grafton Manor
• Chaddesley Corbett
• Upton Warren
• Dodderhill
• Belbroughton
• Catshill
• Tardebigge
• Frankley
• Halesowen
• Alvechurch
• Cofton Hackett
• Stoke Prior

Parish History

Bromsgrove

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BROMSGROVE, or Broomsgrove, a town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district, in Worcester. The town stands on the river Salwarp. under the Lickey hills, 1¼ mile W of the Midland railway, near the Worcester and Birmingham canal, 12 miles NE by N of Worcester. It was anciently called Bremesgrave; sent two members to parliament in the time of Edward I.; and held long the estates of a corporate town, with bailiff, recorder, aldermen, and other officers.

It consists chiefly of one street, about a mile long; and contains many good modern houses, with some very ancient ones, curious and picturesque. It has a head post office, a railway station with telegraph, two banking offices, four chief inns, a neat town hall of 1832, a parish church, a Baptist chapel of 1867, other dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a grammar school, a free school, a literary and mechanics’ institute, charities £350 a year, and a workhouse; and it is seat of petty sessions and a polling place, and publishes a weekly newspaper.

The church shows various characters, from Norman downwards; has a tower and spire 189 feet high; was restored in 1858, at a cost of £5,600; and contains several handsome monuments of the Earls of Shrewsbury and one of Councillor Lyttleton. The Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1863; is in the decorated English style of architecture; and forms a conspicuous object to travellers entering the town. The grammar school dates from the time of Edward VI.; has an endowed income of £64; and holds a fellowship and scholarship at Worcester college, Oxford.

A weekly market is held on Tuesday; a monthly market, toll free, on the first Tuesday after 6 Jan., 24 June, the second Tuesday of Dec., and the last Tuesday of the other months; and fairs on 24 June and 1 Oct. A considerable linen and patent button manufacture was formerly carried on, but has ceased; and the chief manufacture now is nails. Real property, £16,024. Pop., 5,262. Houses, 1,148. The parish includes also the hamlet of Chadwick and the chapelry of Cats-Hill. Acres, 10,968. Real property, £29,850. Pop., 10,822. Houses, 2,304. The property is much subdivided.

The Lickey hills, a little north of the town, are on the watershed between the Severn and the Trent; were not long ago reclaimed from wildness to cultivation; and command delightful views. A chalybeate spring is at Barnet green, and a petrifying spring at Holy-wood. A Premonstratensian priory was founded, in the time of Henry I., at Dodsworth; and part of it is included in a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £1,005. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The vicarages of Lickey and Cats-Hill are separate benefices.

The subdistrict contains the parishes of Bromsgrove and Stoke-Prior. Acres, 14,788. Pop., 12,444. Houses, 2,634. The district comprehends also the subdistrict of Belbroughton, containing the parishes of Belbroughton, Clent, Hagley, Pedmore, and Frankley, and part of the parish of Halesowen; and the subdistrict of Tardebigg, containing the parishes of Tardebigg, Alvechurch, and Coston-Hackett. Acres, 47,374. Poor-rates in 1866, £11,744. Pop. in 1861, 26,207. Houses, 5,510. Marriages in 1866, 190; births, 1,021, of which 87 were illegitimate; deaths, 558, of which 239 were at ages under 5 years, and 16 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,483; births, 8,609; deaths, 5,200.

The places of worship in 1851 were 15 of the Church of England, with 6,747 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 900 s.; 4 of Baptists, with 310 s.; 9 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 1,731 s.; 9 of Primitive Methodists, with 1,144 s.; and 1 of the Wesleyan Association, with 300 s. The schools were 16 public day schools, with 1,584 scholars; 43 private day schools, with 925 s.; 28 Sunday schools, with 3,511 s.; and 3 evening schools for adults, with 39 s.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

Bromsgrove (St. John The Baptist), a market town and parish, the head of a union, and formerly a borough, in the Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Droitwich and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 13 miles (N. E. by N.) from Worcester, 13 (S. W.) from Birmingham, and 116 (N. W.) from London; containing 9671 inhabitants.

This place, anciently Bremesgrave, was a royal demesne at the time of the Conquest, and continued to be so till the reign of Henry III.: it returned members to parliament in the 23rd of Edward I. During the civil war it was the head-quarters of a party of royalists employed in the siege of Hawkesley House, about three miles distant, which, in 1645, was fortified and garrisoned by the parliament.

The town is pleasantly situated on the western bank of the river Salwarp, and consists principally of one street, extending for a considerable distance along the Birmingham and Worcester turnpike-road; the houses are in general substantial and well built; and the inhabitants amply supplied with water. In 1846 an act was passed for paving and otherwise improving the place.

The principal articles of manufacture are nails and silk buttons: potatoes, for the Bristol and other markets, are extensively cultivated in the neighbourhood. The Birmingham and Worcester canal passes within three miles to the east; and the Birmingham and Gloucester railway has one of its principal stations a mile and a quarter distant. The market is on Tuesday; the fairs are on June 24th and October 1st.

The town is within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates: a bailiff and other officers are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor, held at Michaelmas; and a court is held every third week, for the recovery of debts under 40s. The town hall is a neat and commodious building, in the centre of the town.

The parish comprises 10,968 acres: the soil is in some parts fertile, in others of inferior quality.

To the north of the town is Bromsgrove Lickey, a range of lofty hills, commanding an extensive and diversified prospect of the surrounding country; a considerable part, comprising a tract of 2000 acres, has been inclosed, and produces good crops of clover, turnips, and potatoes. A spring rising among these hills divides into two streams, one of which, flowing northward, joins the river Rea, and, uniting with the Trent, falls into the North Sea; the other, running into the Stour, joins the Severn, and empties itself into the Irish Sea.

The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £41. 8. 1½.; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, whose tithes have been commuted for £1200, and whose glebe consists of 75a. 3r. 22p.: the vicarial tithes have been commuted for £1100, and the glebe consists of 1a. 2r., with a house.

The church is a very ancient structure, combining portions in the Norman style and the decorated and later English styles, of which last the tower and spire are fine specimens; the interior contains many interesting monuments.

A district church was built at Catshill in 1837.

There are places of worship for Baptists, Primitive Methodists, Independents, and Wesleyans; and a Roman Catholic chapel at Grafton, an extra-parochial liberty adjoining.

A free grammar school was instituted, with an endowment of £7 per annum, by charter of Edward VI., confirmed by Queen Mary; and the original endowment was augmented with £50 per annum by Sir Thomas Cookes, Bart., of Bentley, who in 1714 founded six scholarships, of £50 per annum each, in Worcester College, Oxford, for this school and four others in the county; and six fellowships, of £150 per annum each, in the same college, to which, as vacancies occur, those who hold the scholarships succeed.

Thomas Hawkes, in 1809, left £1000 four per cent. bank annuities for the benefit of the poor; and there are several other endowments.

The union of Bromsgrove comprises 15 parishes or places, of which 11 are in the county of Worcester, 2 in that of Salop, and one in each of the counties of Stafford and Warwick; and contains a population of 22,357.

At Dadford, two miles from the town, are the remains of a small priory of Præmonstratensian canons founded by Henry I., now part of a farmhouse.

At Shepley are some traces of the Roman Ikeneld-street; near Gannow is a petrifying spring.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Bromsgrove, co. Worcester.

London 116 m. NW. Worcester 12m. NE. Pop. 7519. M. D. Tu. Fairs, June 24; and Oct. 1; for linen, cheese, and horses.

A market-town and parish in the hundred of Halfshire. It is a large and populous town, with a long and straggling principal street, containing many good houses, interspersed with others of a very ancient description, formed of wood, and curiously decorated with black stripes and cross-pieces, the effect of which is extremely grotesque.

It is an ancient borough, and formerly sent members to Parliament, and it is still governed by a bailiff, recorder, alderman, and other officers.

The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester; charged in K.B. 48l. 1s. 1½d., patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church, which is ded. to St. John the Baptist, is a handsome Gothic structure, the tower and spire of which, in height 139 feet, are remarkable for their antique elegance.

Here is a grammar-school, founded by Edward VI., with an additional endowment, by Sir Thomas Cooke, who gave exhibitions there from to Worcester college, Oxford, which was of his own foundation.

The manufactures of this town consist in wool-combing and spinning, linen for the table, sheeting, and general wear, besides needles, nails, tenterhooks, and various small articles of hardware.

The Lickey, a wild and lofty range of hills, are situated in this parish a little to the north of the town, which have been inclosed, and are covered with plantations. The views from them are very fine, and the botanist will find many curious plants in this vicinity. A part of the ruins of a Premonstratension monastery, founded in the reign of John, are traceable in the parts of a farmhouse at Dodsworth.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Laird Description of Worcestershire 1814

We now proceed to Bromsgrove through a pleasing line of country, indifferently well wooded, but where the traveller cannot help noticing that observation of Arthur Young’s, that here he first remarked the abominable custom of stripping the timber trees to make them look like Maypoles, to the entire destruction of the timber, and distorting the face of the whole country.

This town was formerly called Bremesgrave, and was in the Crown from the Conquest, until the reign of Henry III it then passed through various occupants, returning several times to the Crown, until James I granted it to the ancestor of the late Lord Chedworth whose heir sold it to the Windsor family.

Leland speaking of it in his time, says, “I rode from the Wyche to Bromsgrove, a four miles, by enclosed ground, having some good corne, meetly wooded, and well pastured; and in this waye I passed over two or three bridges over the water that cometh from the Wyche. The town of Bromsgrove is all in a manner of one street, very large, standinge in a plain ground. The town standeth somethinge by Clothinge. The heart of the town is meetly well paved.“

It is not even now much altered from that description, and is still a large, but dirty place, full of shops, and of manufacturers of nails, needles, and some sheeting and coarse linens.

The principal street is long, but straggling; containing some very good houses, whilst many of the more ancient ones are framed of wood, and curiously decorated with black stripes and cross pieces, scallops, flowers, leaves, and other ornaments, of which the glaring contrast of colours produces a most unharmonious effect.

The church, which is a pleasing Gothic structure, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The tower and spire, whose height is 189 feet, form a most commanding object, and cannot perhaps be surpassed for antique elegance, by any others in the county. They are highly ornamented with Gothic mouldings, and with three statues of St. John, St. Peter, and St. Paul, on the western side. The body of the church has three aisles; the windows contain some very good painted glass; there are several handsome monuments of the Talbots of Grafton, now the Earls of Shrewsbury, and one of Counsellor Lyttelton, of the Hagley family; but we are sorry to observe, that during the repair of the chancel, some years ago, some very improper changes of the monuments and brasses took place. It were well indeed, if an Act of Parliament were to take place to prevent the barbarous beautifyings which are so often executed by the orders of as barbarous churchwardens. Surely even now, the bishops, or archdeacons, in their visitations, might look into these matters, if the resident clergy will not. The ground on which the church stands is so high as to be ascended by fifty steps.

There is a grammar school here, founded by Edward VI with an additional endowment by Sir Thomas Cookes, who gave exhibitions from the school to Worcester college, in Oxford, of his own foundation.

Bromsgrove, as early as the reign of Edward I returned two members to parliament; but that is now discontinued.

The local jurisdiction consist of a court baron, which sits once in three weeks in the Townhall, for the recovery of small debts.

Those who are fond of hunting after Echoes, may find here several remarkable ones; the first is at a white gate between Dyer’s Bridge and the turnpike; a second in the Crown close, behind the High Street; again, at the east and west corners of the church, and on the east side of the High Street, near the Presbyterian meeting-house.

At Barnet Green, in this parish, there is a chalybeate spring, which, though not yet in fashion, is known by the poorer classes, and sometimes used with good effect; a petrifying well also near Holly Wood, but these modes of encrustation are too well known to require description.

The market is on Tuesday; and there are two fairs for linen cloth, cheese, horses, and cattle, on the 24th of June, and 1st of October. In manufactures, Bromsgrove does a little in the combing and spinning of long wool for the hosiers in Leicestershire; and the other modes of industry are linen for wear, and also for sheeting and table-cloths, &c. besides many small articles of iron ware, such as needles, nails, and tenterhooks.

The town itself contains about 500 houses, and 3000 inhabitants; but the whole parish consists of 14000 acres, and 3000 of an additional population, of the whole of which, about one one half are supported by manufactures: and it is much to the credit of this place, that although the poor-rates were 6000l per annum, in 1801, yet by careful and judicious management, they were reduced, in 1807, to 3,500l.

Source: A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Worcester, by Mr. Laird. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and George Cowie and Co. successors to Vernor, Hood, and Sharp, 31, Poultry, London. Printed circa 1814.

The history of Bromsgrove from Wikipedia

The history of Bromsgrove from Wikipedia

Bromsgrove is first documented in the early 9th century as Bremesgraf. Later in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of 909 AD Bromsgrove is mentioned as Bremesburh. Then in the Domesday Book Bromsgrove is referenced as Bremesgrave. The Breme part of the place name is almost certainly an Anglo-Saxon personal name.

In the Anglo-Saxon times, Bromsgrove had a woodland economy consisting of hunting, maintenance of haies and pig farming. At the time of Edward the Confessor, the manor of Bromsgrove is known to have been held by Earl Edwin. After the conquest, Bromsgrove was held by the King. Among the manor’s possessions were 13 salt pans at Droitwich, with three workers, producing 300 mits. The King had the right to sell the salt from his pans before any other salt in the town.

It was at the centre of a very large parish and its church of St John the Baptist was certainly of minster status. Bromsgrove, along with all the towns in north Worcestershire, was committed to defending the city of Worcester and is recorded to have contributed burgesses to Droitwich in 1086. There may also have been Anglo-Saxon or Norman fortifications in Bromsgrove, but other than in literature no physical archaeological evidence remains.

Bromsgrove was first granted the right to a market day in 1200, and in 1317 was given the right hold a Tuesday market and three-day fair every 29 August at the Decollation of St John the Baptist. Market day changed several times over the period, settling on Tuesday from 1792 onwards. Fairs were held twice yearly, in June and October by the eighteenth century, with the modern pleasure fairs originating from the June horse and pleasure fair.

Bromsgrove and the area surrounding it was put under forest law when the boundaries of Feckenham Forest were extended hugely by Henry II. Forest law was removed from the Bromsgrove area in 1301 in the reign of Edward I, when the boundaries were moved back.

In the later Middle Ages, Bromsgrove was a centre for the wool trade. Manufacture of cloth, particularly narrow cloth and friezes is first recorded in 1533. It fell into decline by the 1700s. By 1778, 140 hands (i.e., people) were employed in the manufacture of linsey and linen employed 180. By comparison, nail making employed 900 hands by this time.

Nail making was introduced by the French Huguenots in the 17th century and became a thriving industry. At one point Bromsgrove was the world centre of nail making. Mechanisation quickly put the industry into decline.

The Bromsgrove Union Workhouse, on the Birmingham Road, was opened in 1838 and closed in 1948 and is in use as an office building today.

In 1841, Bromsgrove railway works was established. It was primarily a maintenance facility but also built steam locomotives. The works provided employment for people in Bromsgrove. In 1964, following a reorganisation of railway workshops, the works closed and was demolished. The site is now a housing estate. One of the turntable pits still remains.

Major restoration of the Norman and 13th century St. John the Baptist church was carried out in 1858 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. In the churchyard here are the graves of two railwaymen, Tom Scaife and Joseph Rutherford who were killed when their steam locomotive blew up while climbing the steepest mainline railway gradient in England, at the nearby Lickey Incline, on 10 November 1840. The driver and his number two died instantly. St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Worcester Road was built by Gilbert Blount in 1858.

Bromsgrove was home for many years to the famous Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, a company of craftsmen who produced many fine works of sculpture, ironwork, etc., including the gates of Buckingham Palace (whose locks are stamped with the Guild’s name), the lifts on the Lusitania and the famous statue adorning the Fortune Theatre in Drury Lane.

Dodford

Description of Worcestershire Laird 1814

[Dodford] was once a small priory of premonstratensian canons, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and as old as King John. Its situation is retired, and part of its remains may be seen in the walls of a farm-house, the whole of which seems of very considerable antiquity.

Source: A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Worcester, by Mr. Laird. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and George Cowie and Co. successors to Vernor, Hood, and Sharp, 31, Poultry, London. Printed circa 1814.

Parish Registers

Marriage Licences and Allegations

London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869

The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.

Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.

Clerke, Leonard, of St. Margaret, Westminster, bachelor, 26, and Mary Blick, of same, spinster, 23, daughter of Nicholas Blick, of Bromsgrove, co. Worcester, gent., who consents — at St. Giles, Cripplegate, or All Hallows-in-the-Wall, London, or Henley or Alcester, co. Warwick. 10 Sept. 1670. F.

Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Worcestershire Historical Directories

Directory Transcriptions

Bromsgrove Classified Directory Littleburys Directory 1879

Bromsgrove (with the villages of Stoke Prior, Upton Warren, Tardebigg) Pigots Directory 1842

Bromsgrove with Stoke Prior, Tardebigge, Upton Warren and Neighbourhoods Pigot and Co’s National Commercial Directory 1835

Bromsgrove Professions and Trades Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820

Bromsgrove Universal British Directory 1791

Bromsgrove (Burcot Yield Division) 1820

Connard Mrs. school
Dixon T., coal merchant
Hornblower Wm., farmer
Palmer Mrs., farmer
Partridge Wm., farmer
Sanders Thomas, vict.
Taylor William, farmer

Source: S Lewis Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820.

Bromsgrove (Catshell Division) 1820

Blakeway John, farmer
Bradley John, baker
Brewster J & Co., millers
Broad John, farmer
Bull Thomas, farmer
Butler William, farmer
Carpenter Mrs., farmer
Cresswell Charles, farmer
Downing John, farmer
Downing James, farmer
Edwards Messrs., farmers
Grove John, farmer
Harvey Samuel, farmer
Heynes William, farmer
Higgs William, farmer
Hill William, smith
Hill John, mason
Hollis James, farmer
Hughes Charles, farmer
Jones John, farmer
Long William, farmer
Loynes John, smith
Lucas William, farmer
Martin Thomas, farmer
Nutting Charles, machine maker
Only John, farmer
Parkes John, farmer
Parkes Mrs. victualler
Peace Francis, farmer
Pool Edward, farmer
Powell Henry, smith
Price John, farmer
Rogers Richard, farmer
Taylor George, farmer
Taylor William, farmer
Taylor James, butcher
Warley Wm., carpenter
Wilson William, farmer
Wilson Wm. Jun., farmer

Source: S Lewis Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820.
Note: Catshell is how the name is spelt in the Directory, but I believe that it should most probably be Catshill.

Bromsgrove (Chadwick Division) 1820

Bate Thomas, farmer
Coley Edward, farmer
Cooke John, farmer
Cooper George, farmer
Corbett John, farmer
Dickens Benj., farmer
Foley John, farmer
Greaves Austin, farmer
Green William, farmer
Green Wm. jun., miller
Gubb Joseph, farmer
Hobbis Edmund, farmer
Holden John, farmer
Holmes Thomas, farmer
Hubard Thos. attorney
Iddins G. T., farmer
Lander Sampson, farmer
Penn Mrs. victualler
Powell Thomas, smith
Price William, farmer
Seager Edward, farmer
Smith Matthias, farmer
Smith Mrs., farmer
Strain Thomas, farmer
Waldon Moses, farmer
Walker George, farmer
Webley R., shoemaker
Wrights James, farmer

Source: S Lewis Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820.

Bromsgrove (Shepley Yield Division) 1820

Ashmore Benj., farmer
Ashmore J. sen., farmer
Ashmore J. jun., farmer
Butler William, farmer
Clarke Joseph, farmer
Derrington Geo., farmer
Duce Edward, farmer
Horton Thomas, farmer
Hunt Rich., cow jobber
Jones John, farmer
Mutchall Edward, farmer
Nicklins Ann, farmer
Parker Jos., shoemaker
Partridge William, farmer
Partridge John, farmer
Turner John, carpenter
Whitehouse Dan., farmer

Source: S Lewis Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820.

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.

Amphlett Thos., Bromsgrove, Worcester, baker and seedsman, March 27, 1829.

Exley Matthew, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, mercer and draper, Dec. 5, 1837.

Newman John Meadows, Bromsgrove, Worcestersh., wool dealer, Feb. 24, 1821.

Rose William, Bromsgrove, Worcestersbire, innkeeper, Jan. 28, 1834.

Watson James, Bromsgrove. Worcestershire, draper, July 20, 1824.

Williams Oliver, jun., Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, tanner, Feb. 28, 1826.

Wood John A.. Bromsgrove, Worcestersh., chemist & druggist, Mar. 25, 1842.

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Administration

• County: Worcestershire
• Civil Registration District: Bromsgrove
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Worcester
• Rural Deanery: Droitwich
• Poor Law Union: Bromsgrove
• Hundred: Halfshire
• Province: Canterbury