White Ladies Aston Worcestershire Family History Guide
White Ladies Aston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Worcestershire.
Church: St. John the Baptist
Parish Records begin: 1558
Table of Contents
Adjacent Parishes
White Ladies Aston Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
White Ladies Aston, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
White Ladies Aston, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922
White Ladies Aston, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947
White Ladies Aston, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997
The following Worcestershire Monumental Inscriptions, hosted by Findmypast, are a collection of transcriptions created by the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry.
White Ladies Aston St John the Baptist Monumental Inscriptions 1730-1989
White Ladies Aston Strays
Below is a list of people who were from White Ladies Aston but who were married in another parish.
Henry Tandy & Mary Mosely, both of White-Lady-Aston, lic. 30 May 1665 at North & Middle Littleton, Worcestershire.
Richard Harberte, p. Stowtone, & Ellinor Bamforde, p. Whiteladie Astone … 13 Jan. 1611 at Churchill in Halfshire, Worcestershire
Thomas Bamforde, of Whitlady Aston, & Elizabeth, his w., lic. 5 Oct. 1616 at Churchill in Halfshire, Worcestershire
Historical Directory Transcriptions
White Ladies Aston Littleburys Directory 1905
White Ladies Aston Littleburys Directory 1879
White Ladies Aston Billings Directory of Worcestershire 1855
White Ladies Aston Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WHITE LADIES ASTON, or Aston-Episcopi, a parish, with a village, in Pershore district, Worcestershire; 1¾ mile ESE of Spetchley r. station, and 5 ESE of Worcester. Post town, Worcester. Acres, 1,230. Real property, £2,180. Pop., 353. Houses, 85. The manor belongs to R. Berkeley, Esq., and the Bishop of Worcester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £215. Patron, R. Berkeley, Esq. The church is Norman, and was recently restored.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
White-Lady-Aston, or Aston-Episcopi, a parish in the lower division of the hund. of Oswaldslow, union of Pershore, county of Worcester; 4 miles south-east of Worcester. Living, a vicarage in the archd. and dio of Worcester; rated at £6 17s. 3d.; gross income £281. Patron, in 1841, R. Berkeley, Esq. In 1833 there were 3 daily schools in this parish. Acres 760. Houses 73. A.P. £1,243. Pop., in 1801, 266; in 1831, 381. Poor rates, in 1838, £53 5s.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.
Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822
White-Ladies-Aston – a parish in the hundred of Oswaldslow, lower division, 5 miles E.S.E. from Worcester; containing 54 inhabited houses. In 1708, a estate in this parish came to Bishop Lloyd, (in consequence of the execution of its heir for an atrocious murder), who being unwilling that his family should, under such circumstances, derive any benefit from it, he conveyed it over to trustees, for the endowment of two schools at Worcester, for twenty-four boys and girls, to be chosen out of the several parishes within the city. It was at the manor-house in this parish, then the residence of a Mr. Symmonds, that Oliver Cromwell had his head quarters the night before the battle of Worcester, in 1651. The living is a vicarage, Rev. Charles Neve, incumbent; instituted 1808; patron, Robert Berkley, Esq. Population, 1801, 266 – 1811, 305 – 1821, 342.
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.
Laird Description of Worcestershire 1814
White Lady Aston in this neighbourhood, is only remarkable for two points of its history. ‘Twas here, in the old manor-house, then the property of Mr. Symonds, a great favourite of the Protector, that Oliver had his head-quarters the night before the battle of Worcester. In this parish also is an estate, which coming in 1708 by an unfortunate event to Bishop Lloyd, he was so unwilling that himself or his family should derive any benefit from it, (having fallen out of lease by the execution of its heir for an atrocious murder,) that he lodged it in trustees for the endowment of two schools for boys and girls in Worcester, to the number of twenty-four from the different parishes.
Source: A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Worcester, by Mr. Laird. Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and George Cowie and Co. successors to Vernor, Hood, and Sharp, 31, Poultry, London. Printed circa 1814.
Universal British Directory 1791
Aston White Lady is a village about four miles south-east from Worcester. In this parish, by the unfortunate death of Mr. Symonds in the year 1708, an estate fell to Bishop Lloyd, who founded therewith a school for boys and girls in Worcester, called “Bishop Lloyd’s Charity-school.” The number of children educated is twenty-four, out of the different parishes in Worcester. The White Ladies was formerly a nunnery.
Source: Universal British Directory 1791
Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Worcestershire
- Civil Registration District: Pershore
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Worcester
- Poor Law Union: Pershore
- Hundred: Oswaldslow
- Province: Canterbury
County Maps
The Godfrey Edition reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. Many are taken from the highly detailed 1:2500 plans, reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile, showing individual houses, railways, factories, churches, mills, canals. Each map includes historical notes on the area. Alongside these large‑scale sheets, Alan Godfrey also publishes the smaller‑scale Inch‑to‑the‑Mile series, and a range of maps based on the OS five‑foot plans.
