Great Comberton, Worcestershire Family History Guide

Great Comberton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Worcestershire.

Alternative names: Comberton Magna

Parish church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin: 1540

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COMBERTON (Great), a parish in Pershore district, Worcester; on the river Avon, under Bredon hill, 2¼ miles E by N of Eckington r. station, and 2¾ SSE of Pershore. Post town, Pershore.

Acres, 960. Real property, £1,688. Pop., 247. Houses, 53. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £254. Patron, the Rev. H. Parker. The church is good. Charities, £23.

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

Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822

Comberton-Magna – a parish in the hundred of Pershore, upper division, 2 ½ miles S. from Pershore, and 103 from London; containing 48 inhabited houses. It is a rectory; Rev. L. Middleton, incumbent; instituted 1808; patroness, Mrs. Middleton. Population, 1801, 218 – 1811, 220 – 1821, 206.

Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.

Great Comberton Church
Great Comberton Church

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Worcestershire, Great Comberton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Great Comberton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Worcestershire, Great Comberton – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Great Comberton, 1607-1875
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Comberton (Worcestershire)

Parish chest and poor law records for Great Comberton, 1674-1902
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Comberton (Worcestershire)

Parish register transcripts, 1540-1628
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Comberton (Worcestershire)

Parish registers for Great Comberton, 1540-1964
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Comberton (Worcestershire)

England, Worcestershire, Great Comberton – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Parish register printouts of Great Comberton, Worcester, England ; christenings, 1756-1875
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Worcestershire, Great Comberton – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish chest and poor law records for Great Comberton, 1674-1902
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Comberton (Worcestershire)

Directories

Online Directories

Bentley’s Directory of Great Comberton 1840 – Archive.org

Directory Transcriptions

Great Comberton Worcestershire Littleburys Directory 1879

Great Comberton is a small parish and village by the river Avon, in the vale of Evesham, from which town it is distant 7 miles S.W., 3 S. of Pershore, and 12 S.E. of Worcester; is in the eastern division of the county and hundred of Upper Pershore; in the union, petty sessional division, polling and county court district of Pershore; annual rateable value, £1, 801; area, 960 acres; population in 1861, 247; in 1871, 207 with 51 inhabited houses and 60 families or separate occupiers.

William Hanford Flood, Esq., is lord of the manor, and the principal landowners are also the Rev. C. H. Parker, the Misses Phipps, Mrs. George, John Smith, Esq., and Thomas S. Shekell, Esq. The soil is marly; subsoil, clay and gravel; drainage generally introduced, and the crops are wheat, beans, barley, turnips, and mangold, together with a very extensive growth of fruit, and a choice sort of cider. Comberton is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Worcester and rural deanery of Pershore.

The living is a rectory, value £336, with residence and 19 acres of glebe; patron and rector, Rev. Charles Hubert Parker, M.A., Lincoln College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1826. The church of St. Michael possesses several peculiarities of arrangement, and there are some remains of Saxon work. It has a square embattled tower with pinnacles at each corner, and contains six bells. The nave and chancel have wagon roofs of great interest; the chancel was rebuilt in 1862. The old open seats are very perfect. The register begins with the year 1540. There is a parish school for boys and girls.

Postal Regulations. – Letters are received through Pershore. The wall letter-box is cleared at 6.20 p.m. on week-days only. Pershore is the nearest money-order and telegraph office and post town.

Parish Church (St. Michael’s). – Rev. Charles Hubert Parker, M.A., Patron and Rector; Messrs. John Edmund Smith and Joseph Smith, Churchwardens; Robert Groves, Parish Clerk.

Parochial School (boys and girls). – Miss Emma Giles, Mistress.
Carrier to Worcester (via Pershore). – Mrs. Sarah Hopkins, on Wednesdays and Saturdays; stops at the Coventry Arms Inn, Friar street, Worcester, returning therefrom at 4 p.m. the same day.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Clark Miss
George Mrs. Ann
Parker Rev. Charles Hubert, M.A. (rector), The Rectory
Phipps The Misses, Shalton house

AGRICULTURAL & COMMERCIAL.

Aldington Henry, shopkeeper
Careless Theodosia, farmer
Freeman Mrs. Harriet, farmer, Lilworth
George Mrs. Ann, farmer
Gibbs T., farm bailiff for Mr. G. Smith
Giles Miss Emma, schoolmistress
Groves Robert, boot and shoe maker, shopkeeper, overseer, and parish clerk
Groves William, carpenter
Hopkins Mrs. Sarah, carrier to Worcester
Mann Henry, fisherman and osier dealer
Mytton Miss Eliza, farmer
Phipps The Misses, farmers, Shalton farm
Ricketts Mrs. Walter, farmer
Smith George, farmer; res., Fernhill farm, Cropthorne
Smith John Edmund, farmer
Smith Joseph, baker and grocer

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

Great Comberton Billings Worcestershire Directory 1855

Great Comberton is a small parish, situate about 2 ½ miles from Pershore, on the river Avon, and contained in 1851 a population of 239 inhabitants.

The Church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small, ancient-looking structure, with square turreted tower. The living is a Discharged Rectory, in the diocese of Worcester. Rev. Charles Hubert Parker, Rector; Mr. Robert Groves, Clerk. Service – 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

There is a small Parochial School, supported by contributions and the children’s payments. Elizabeth Mann, Mistress. Average number of scholars, 14.

DIRECTORY

Parker Rev. Charles Hubert, Rector
Brown William, coal merchant
Freeman George, farmer
Goddard John, farmer
Groves Robert, boot and shoe maker
Mytton Edward, farmer
Phipps Mary, farmer
Ricketts Walter, farmer
Smith Edward, farmer
Smith Edward, shopkeeper
Woods John, farmer

Source: Billings Directory of Worcestershire 1855

Administration

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