Evesbatch, Herefordshire Family History Guide

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Evesbatch an Ancient Parish in the county of Herefordshire. Evesbatch parish was abolished in 1923 with the creation of Evesbatch with Fromes Hill Ecclesiastical Parish.

Parish church: St. Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1700
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660

Adjacent Parishes

Evesbatch Parish Registers

Search online indexed transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials. Taken from the original parish registers, these entries may include names, dates, family relationships, residences, occupations and other details noted by the minister, with earlier records naturally offering fewer details.

Baptism Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of baptisms.

Evesbatch Herefordshire Baptisms 1661-1868

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of marriages.

Evesbatch, Herefordshire Marriages 1660-1834

Evesbatch, St Andrew, Herefordshire Marriages 1660-1834

Death and Burial Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burials.

Evesbatch, Herefordshire Burials 1796-1839

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EVESBATCH, a parish in Bromyard district, Hereford; on the E verge of the county, 5 miles SSE of Bromyard, and 5½ NW of Colwall r. station. Post town, Bishops-Frome, under Worcester. Acres, 973. Real property, £1,804. Pop., 87. Houses, 13. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £150. Patrons, the Heirs of the Dowager Countess of Berkeley-Charities, £9.Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Historical Directories

The Post Office Directory Of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and The City Of Bristol 1863

Evesbatch Littleburys Directory 1879

Evesbatch, otherwise Evesbach, is a small parish in Herefordshire, situated about 1 mile N. of the main road between Worcester and Hereford (over Froome’s hill), 5 miles S.S.E. of Bromyard, 8 W.N.W. of Malvern, 8 N. of Ledbury, 14 N.E. of Hereford, and 12 ½ W.S.W. of Worcester; is in Radlow hundred, Bishop’s Froome polling district, Bromyard union, county court district, and petty sessional division. 

The population in 1861 was 87; in 1871, 96; inhabited houses, 17; population in 1878, 60; inhabited houses, 14; area of parish, 973 acres; annual rateable vale, £1,219.  The Rev. Richard Seddon, the Executors of the late Rev. William Ellis Wall, Mr. Edwin Gibbs, and W. M. Sparrow, Esq., are the chief landowners.  The soil is strong loam, producing hops, wheat, beans, fruit, and roots.

The parish is beautifully situated, commanding fine prospects over a wide range of scenery.  Evesbatch is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of South Froome; living, a rectory; value, £163, with 10 acres of glebe; patron and rector, Rev. Richard Seddon, B.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1873. 

Through the exertions of the rector, the church of St. Andrew has been almost entirely rebuilt, under the superintendence of T. Nicholson, Esq., architect, of Hereford, and was reopened May 16th, 1876.  The cost of the work amounted to upwards of £750.  This little church, scarcely capable of holding sixty worshippers, in its renewed form presents an appearance both externally and internally greatly to be admired.  There are two stained-glass windows, by Wailes of Newcastle; one at the west end representing St. Andrew, after whom the church is named, the other on the south side of the chancel representing the Nativity of our Lord.  The chancel and nave floors, &c., are laid with encaustic tiles.  There is a school for boys and girls used as a Sunday-school, but the children go to Acton and Bishop’s Froome on week-days.

Postal Regulations. – Letters arrive by messenger from Bromyard about 11 a.m.; despatched thereto at 4 p.m.  There is no delivery on Sundays.  Bromyard is the nearest money-order and telegraph office.  Post town, Bromyard, Worcester.
Parish Church (St. Andrew’s). – Rev. Richard Seddon, B.A., Rector; Mr. Reuben Gibbs, Churchwarden.

Private Resident.
Seddon Rev. Richard, B.A. (rector), The Rectory

Agricultural, &c.
Cook James, Rectory house
Gibbs Henry, farmer and hop grower, Wood end farm
Gibbs Reuben, farmer and hop grower, Brook farm
Lewis – , farm bailiff, Evesbatch court
Perigo James, farmer, Ridgway farm
Seddon Rev. Richard, owner, occupier, and hop grower, The Farm and Pool farm

Source: Littlebury, Littlebury’s Directory and Gazetteer of Worcester & District, Third Edition. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. 1879.

Administration

  • County: Herefordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bromyard
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Hereford
  • Rural Deanery: Frome
  • Poor Law Union: Bromyard
  • Hundred: Radlow
  • Province: Canterbury