Bretforton Worcestershire Family History Guide
Bretforton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Worcestershire.
Parish church: St Leonard
Parish registers begin: 1538
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Bretforton, a parish in Evesham district, Worcester; on the West Midland railway, 2 miles WNW of Honeybourne station, and 3½ E of Evesham. Post Town, Evesham.
Acres, 1,683. Real property, £3,161. Pop., 565. Houses, 123. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £182. Patron, the Rev. G. Morris. The church is good.
There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Bretforton, 3 m. E. Evesham. P. 511
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Bretforton, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of BLACKENHURST, county of Worcester, 3¾ miles (E.) from Evesham, containing 451 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged Vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king’s books at £6. 5., and endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £1100 parliamentary grant. The Rev. Dr. Timbrill was patron in 1817. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831
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.
Lunne, Holmer,* of Clement’s Inn, Middlesex, gent., bachelor, about 25, and Mrs. Elizabeth Keightly, of Bretforton, co. Worcester, spinster, about 20, her father dead, her mother’s consent — at Bretforton aforesaid. 30 Nov. 1676. V. (* indexed as Holmes Lunne in the Harleian Society’s edition.)
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Parish Records
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Directories
Bentley’s Directory of Bretforton 1840 – Archive.org
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Administration
- County: Worcestershire
- Civil Registration District: Evesham
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Evesham
- Poor Law Union: Evesham
- Hundred: Blackenhurst
- Province: Canterbury