Salford Priors Warwickshire Family History Guide

Salford Priors is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Alternative names: Salford, Church Salford, Abbots Salford

The parish contains also the hamlets of Salford-Abbots, Dunnington, Cock-Bevington, Wood-Bevington, Parkhall, Pitchell, Rushford, and Irons-Cross.

Church: St. Matthew

Parish registers begin: 1568

Nonconformists in Salford Priors include: Particular Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Roman Catholic church: Our Lady and St Anthony, Abbots Salford.

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Adjacent Parishes

Salford Priors Parish Registers

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Salford Priors, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Salford Priors, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Salford Priors, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Salford Priors, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Salford Priors Strays

Below is a list of people who were from Salford but who were married in another parish.

William Harris, of Salford, & Hannah Horn, of N. L. [blank] 1707 at North & Middle Littleton, Worcestershire.

William Ellins, of Salford, & Margaret Couper, of N. L. 1 Mar. 1714 at North & Middle Littleton, Worcestershire.

William Cull, of Salford, co. Warwick, & Margaret Smith … … 6 Apr. 1780 at North & Middle Littleton, Worcestershire.

George Hygcocke, of Salford, husbandman, & Jone, d. of John Bushell, husbandman, of thys parysh. The last day of September, the first yeare of Phyllyp, our kynge, and the seconde yere of Marye, our Queene [—–] 1554 at South Littleton, Worcestershire.

Salford Priors Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Salford Priors. The index includes information from A Calendar of Wills and Administrations registered in The Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester v.2 1601 to 1652 Edited by Edward Alexander Fry 1907.

Wills and Administrations

A Calendar of Wills and Administrations Registered in The Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester v.2 1601 to 1652

The following names of Salford Priors people have been extracted from the book A Calendar of Wills and Administrations registered in The Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester v.2 1601 to 1652. The book lists Wills and administrations that were preserved in the Probate Registry at Worcester for the period 1601 to 1652.

1601 Emmes, William, husbandman, Priors Salford. W. I.

1601 Reade, William, husbandman, Priors Salford. Admon. and I.

1601 Checketts, William, husbandman, Priors Salford. Admon. and I.

1602 Averell, Henry, tayler, Salford. W. I.

1602 Turle, William, husbandman, Abbots Salford. Admon. and I.

1603 Emmes, Joane, Priors Salford. Admon.

1603 Heines, Nicholas, yeoman, Abbots Salford. W. I.

1603 Haynes, John, Salford Priors. Admon. and I.

1603 Wheeler, William, Priors Salford. W. I.

1604 Amary, Richard, husbandman, Abbots Salford. W. I.

1606 Johnsons, Henry, yeoman, Abbots Salford. W. I.

1608 Hyorn, William, husbandman, Salford. W. I.

1609 Haynes, John, husbandman, Salford Priors. Admon. and I.

1610 Mason, John, Salford (?). W. I.

1611 Checketts, John, Salford, Admon.

1611 Hyorne, David, labourer, Salford. W.

1612 Biddle, Christopher, Salford. W. I.

1612 White, Anthony, husbandman, Abbotts Salford. W. I.

1612 Hierne, Joan, widow, Salford. W.

1613 Haukes, Edmund, Abbotts Salford. W.

1613 Hoggins, John, husbandman, Salford. W. I.

1613 Hawkes, Edmund, Abbotts Salford. I.

1613 Ammry, Thomas, Abbots Salford. Admon. and I.

1614 Hirone, Robert, Abbotts Salford. Admon. and I .

1614 Wood, Richard, Abbotts Salford. W. I.

1628 Haynes, Humphrey, yeoman, Priors Salford. W. I.

1629 Wheeler, Richard, yeoman, Priors Salford. W. I.

1629 Webbe, John, husbandman, Salford. W. I.

1630 Pleasenton, Francis, yeoman, Salford Priors. W. I.

1630 Wheeler, Beatrice, Salford. W. I.

1630 ate, Beatrice, widow, Salford. W.

1631 Harris, Dorothy, widow, Salford Priors. W. I.

1631 Holtham, William, yeoman, Salford Priors. W. I.

1632 Pleasenton, Alice, widow, Priors Salford. W. I.

1633 Haddocke, Philip, clerk, Priors Salford. W. I.

1633 Marshall, Thomas, yeoman, Salford. W. I.

1634 Dickinson, Thomas, Salford. Admon.

1634 Wheeler, Ursula, widow, Salforde. W.

1635 Horton, Elizabeth, spinster, Abbotts Salford. W. I.

1635 Kempe, William, Priors Salford. W.

1635 Sorrell, Ann, widow, Abbotts Salford. W.

1636 Grainger, Joan, widow, Salford.

1636 Perkins, Thomas, Abbotts Salford. W.

1636 Perkins, Frances, widow, Salford Priors. W. I.

1640 Johnson, Nicholas, husbandman, Salford Priors. W. I.

1641 Ernes, Ralph, Priors Salford. W. I.

1643 Charlett, John, Abbotts Salford. I.

1644 Haynes, John, yeoman, Salford Priors. W. I.

1648 Bennett, John, labourer, Salford. Admon. and I.

1648 Ballard, John, shepheard, Salford. W. I.

1648 Gelfe, Richard, yeoman, Salford. W. I.

1648 Hobbins, William, Salford. Admon. and W. I.

1649 Johnsons, Henry, Salford. Admon. and W. I.

Poll Books

Salford Warwickshire Poll Book 1868

Below are the names of those that voted in the election of November 1868 between Lord Hyde. Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.B. H. C. Wise, Esq. John Hardy, Esq..

Poll Book, South Warwickshire Election, November 1868.

Alcester Polling District

Salford

No. and Name of Voter.

List 1.

399 Adkins, Robert

400 Adkins, John

401 Arnall, Thomas

402 Baylis, Charles

403 Birch, John

404 Bomford, Heming James

405 Bomford, Benjamin

406 Chattaway, Joseph

407 Chambers, William Edward Eouse Boughton

408 Dyke, Thomas

409 East, Henry

410 Eyston, John

411 Garrard, Rev. Samuel

412 Hearne, Stephen Street

413 Hemming, John

414 Huband, Thomas

415

416 Nicholls, James

417 Nicholls, Joseph

418 Penrice, George, Esq.

419 Shailer, Thomas

420 Slatter, Henry Bandis

List 2.

421 Banister, David William

422 Bomford, Frederick

423 Farr, George

424 Hartigan, Rev. Patrick

Salford Priors Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SALFORD-PRIORS, a village and a parish in Alcester district, Warwick. The village stands near the confluence of the rivers Arrow and Avon, adjacent to the Malvern and Alcester railway, 4 miles S by W of Alcester; took the latter part of its name from an ancient priory, of which no traces exist; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Evesham.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Salford-Abbots, Dunnington, Cock-Bevington, Wood-Bevington, Parkhall, Pitchell, Rushford, and Irons-Cross. Acres, 4,730. Real property, £8,580. Pop., 858. Houses, 188. The property is divided among a few.

The Vineyard was the seat of Sir S. Clarke, owner of the manor in the time of Elizabeth; and is now a ruin. Park Hall belongs to the Marquis of Hertford; and is occupied as a boarding academy. Salford-Abbots House, now called the Nunnery, belongs to J. Eyston, Esq.; was occupied by French Benedictine nuns, from about the end of last century till about 1856; and is now partly a farm-house, partly a Roman Catholic chapel. Roman relics have been found. The rocks are chiefly of the lias formation, and abound in fossils. There are extensive marl pits, a salt spring, and a petrifying spring.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £176. Patron, the Rev. S. Garrard. The church has a spacious chancel, a S aisle separated by heavy arches, a flamboyant N window, and a tower 60 feet high; and was repaired and much improved in 1859.

There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, an endowed school with £41 a year, and charities £7.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831

Salford, a parish in the Stratford division of the hundred of Barlichway, county of Warwick, 5¾ miles (S. by W.) from Alcester, containing 813 inhabitants.

The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king’s books at £9, endowed with £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Lady Skipwith. The church is dedicated to St. Matthew. The river Avon and its tributary stream, the Arrow, runs through the parish.

William Perkins, in 1656, gave £232 for the support of a free grammar school; the annual income, now upwards of £40, is applied to instructing, in English, the children of parishioners; the classics were formerly taught, but they have of late years been discontinued.

An ancient mansion, the property of Mr. Berkeley, is now occupied as a nunnery, the society consisting of an abbess, sixteen professed nuns, and a school for young ladies, noviciates.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831.

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Administration

County: Warwickshire
Civil Registration District: Alcester
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Worcester
Rural Deanery: Warwick
Poor Law Union: Alcester
Hundred: Barlinchway
Province: Canterbury