Stock and Bradley Worcestershire Family History Guide

Stock and Bradley Chapelry was a chapelry of Fladbury Ancient Parish in Worcestershire. Bradley Ecclesiastical Parish was constituted a separate parish in 1862.

Other places in the parish include: Bradley, Stock, and Bradley Green.

Parish registers begin: 1562

Adjacent Parishes

• Dormston
• Feckenham
• Inkberrow
• Hanbury

Stock and Bradley Parish Registers

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Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Stock and Bradley, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Stock and Bradley, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Stock and Bradley, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Bradley Marriages 1630-1812

The Bradley Marriages 1630-1812 are available free to read online, with options to download the pdf for personal research

Bradley Marriages 1630-1812 Worcestershire Parish Registers Marriages Vol. 1 Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and W. F. Carter. Published London 1901. Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co.

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Stock and Bradley, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Stock and Bradley Parish Records

School Records

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Historical Directory Transcriptions

Bradley Littlebury’s Worcestershire Directory 1879

Bradley, formerly Stock and Bradley, a chapelry to Fladbury, but now a rectory of itself, is a parish 6 miles E. of Droitwich, 7 S. of Bromsgrove, 1 ½ S.W. of Feckenham, and 12 N.E. of Worcester; is on the eastern division of the county, Upper Halfshire hundred, Droitwich union, county court district, and petty sessional division, Upton Snodsbury highway district, Feckenham polling district and rural deanery, Worcester diocese and archdeaconry.

The acreage is 1,142; annual rateable value, £2,434; population in 1861, 310; in 1871, 316; inhabited houses, 67. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and, with Harry Foley Vernon, Esq., are the chief landowners. The soil has been well drained and cultivated, and the chief crops are wheat and beans.

Bradley was constituted a separate parish in 1863, when a new church was erected (at a cost of £1,500) in place of the dilapidated old chapel. It contains chancel, nave, north porch, and tower, with broach spire 90 feet from the ground, and is in the Early Decorated style of architecture, from the designs of W. J. Hopkins, Esq., of Worcester. The living is in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester, value £270 yearly; rector, the Rev. John Home, B.C.L., Corpus-Christi College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1863.

There is a parochial school for boys and girls.

Postal Regulations. – Letters arrive from Redditch (via Feckenham) about 8.30 a.m.; despatched at 5 p.m. Feckenham is the nearest money-order and telegraph office. Post town, Redditch.

Parish Church (St. John the Baptist’s). – Rev. John Home, B.C.L., Rector; Messrs. J. A. Gould & Thomas Wilson, Churchwardens; William Badger, Parish Clerk.

School (boys and girls). – Mrs. Lomas, Mistress

Carrier to Worcester. – John Clarke, from Stock green, on Saturdays; Thomas Hunnybun, on Saturdays.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Gould Mr. John Alfred, Bradley
Home Rev. John, B.C.L. (rector), Rectory
Kendrick Mrs.

AGRICULTURAL & COMMERCIAL.

Ardin William, farmer, Stock green

Badger William, parish clerk
Bate Thomas, blacksmith, Stock green
Bloxham William, baker, Stock green
Bloxham William, farmer
Brazier George, farmer
Brown Mrs., farmer, Red House
Burbage Christopher, farmer & shopkpr.

Clarke John, cottage farmer and carrier to Worcester, Perry mill, Stock green
Court Richard, farmer

Edwards John, blacksmith

Ford John, farmer

Gilbert Thomas, farmer

Harber Joseph, beer retailer
Hicks William, Red Lion Inn, Bradley green
Huband Mrs. Jane, farmer
Humphreys John, blacksmith
Hunnybun Thos., carrier to Worcester

Kendrick Robert, farmer, Pigeon house

Laight Charles, farmer
Lomas Mrs., schoolmistress

Mason Thomas, beer retailer, Stock green
Molesworth Wm., carpenter & wheelwright

Parker Mrs., dressmaker

Reeve Robert, dealer, &c.
Roberts Mary, shopkeeper

Smith Richard, farmer
Smith Walter, shopkeeper

Turner John, farmer

Wilson Thomas, farmer, Church farm

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

Parish History

Stock and Bradley Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870

Stock and Bradley, a chapelry in Fladbury parish, Worcester; 6 miles ESE of Droitwich r. station. Post town, Bromsgrove. Acres, 1,142. Real property, £2,033. Pop., 310. Houses, 62. The living is annexed to Fladbury. The church is a plain brick building.

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

Stock and Bradley Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822

Stock and Bradley – a hamlet and chapelry to the parish of Fladbury, hundred of Oswaldslow, middle division, 7 ½ miles S.E. from Droitwich; containing 37 inhabited houses. Population, 1801, 181 – 1811, 227 – 1821, 208.

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.

Bradley A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Bradley, co. Worcester.

P. T. Droitwich (116) 6 m. ESE. Pop. with Pa.

A township in the parish of Fladbury, in the hundred of Osmondslow (Oswaldslow). It is a chapelry to Fladbury; living, a curacy, not in charge, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, annexed to the vicarage.

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.

Stock Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Stock, a hamlet, in the parish of Fladbury, union of Droitwich, Middle division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, Droitwich and E divisions of the county of Worcester, 6 ¾ miles (ESE) from Droitwich; containing 91 inhabitants, and comprising with Bradley, 1096 acres of land.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

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Administration

• County: Worcestershire
• Civil Registration District: Droitwich
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Rector of Fladbury
• Diocese: Worcester
• Rural Deanery: Pershore
• Poor Law Union: Droitwich
• Hundred: Oswaldslow
• Province: Canterbury