Records about Kempsey
This is a list of records that were kept at Worcester records offices, and are now probably at County Hall Records Office. It was compiled by Mrs. Slocombe. I would be very grateful if anyone who has seen any of these records could inform me of the contents.
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Early Charters
Heming - Chartularium Wigorniensis edited by T. Hearne 1723
see also - Robertson "Anglo-Saxon Charters" (some translations)
Jones "Anglo-Saxon Worcester"
H.P.R. Finberg - "Early Charters of the West Midlands" (summaries)
Domesday Book Translated by J. Round in Victoria County History Volume One.
Chronicles
Florence of Worcester. Translated by Forrester in "Boehn's Antiquarian Library"
John of Worcester
Vita Wulfiloni by Will. of Malmesbury (translated)
Later Charters
Liber Albus of Bishopric
12th and 13th Century Surveys
Red Book of Worcester edited by M. Hollings
Worcester Historical Society, Part I 1934
Tax Lists Lay Subsidy Rolls
1280 - Worcester Historical Society 1893
1307 - Worcester Historical Society 1895
1332-3 - Worcester Historical Society 1899
(1334 Lay Subsidy published in appendix of Nash's "Worcestershire"
Bishops' Registers (Most contain references to Kempsey)
Register Sede Vacente, Thom Cobham, Godfrey Giffard, Walter Reynolds, Will de Gaynesborough and Wolstan de Bransford, all published by the Worcester Historical Society at various dates.
Account Roll 1302-3 Red Book edited by M. Hollings, Part IV 1950
Court Rolls and Account Rolls BA.2636.009:1 boxes 157 & 170, also BA 54.705:1
Other Documents
Bearcroft Deeds 3964
Birth Registers 1301
Bishop's Transcripts MC. 2006/28CV & 2245
Boulter, George - Bond 3936
Boundaries, Severn Stoke Inclosure, 1775. 237
Census Returns - Kempsey 1851, microfilm 4373
Church Commission Deeds 2955
Church Lands, 1612. 2406
Churchwardens' Account Book 2189
Churchwardens' Presentments 2239
Civil Registers 379
Civil Registers 1981
Civil Registers (births) 3683
Clarke, M. - Deeds
Common Land Plan 2189
Constable's Assessments 2189
Court Roll 1711 - 1860. 3214
Coventry Estate Plans 849
Coventry Estate Plans 940
Dean and Chapter Deeds 2602
Death Registers 1566
Deeds 1477
Deeds 1483
Deeds of Apprenticeship 156
Deeds 1323 - 1672. 4380
Deeds, Papers etc. 1307
Deeds, (Romney, Frazer & Ody) 4460
Dioscesan Registers, Deeds 2864
Exeter-Leeds Trunk Road 2554
Glebe Land 2808
Hickling Collection 1191
Hyde Collection 438
Indentures of Apprentices 2189
Kempsey Boys' School Log Books 1038
Kempsey Common Plan 2189
Kempsey Council School Managers' Minutes (1941-9) 1944
Kempsey Council C.P. School 3542
Kempsey Court Rolls 54
Kempsey Girls' School Log Book 1038
Kempsey Infants' School Log Book 1038
Kempsey Manor 2542
Kempsey Manor, Bishopric Estates 2636
Kempsey, Manor of; The Rectory of, Court Books 1230
Kempseye, John de, Grant of Land in City of Worcester (late 13th Century) 512
Land Tax Assessments B.A. 4609
Lead Workings, Articles of Agreement 1716
Lease of Cottage to John Ward 1726/7
Lechmere Deeds 1531
Legal Case Paper Re: Property (late 17th Century) 4820
Lord's Meadow, plan copied from a map made by Thomas Buckle 1799. 2692
Morris Evans Legacy to the poor of Kempsey (1651) 2406
Nash Farm Deeds 3706
Nisbet Deeds 1633-1696
O.S. 6" maps 1st. Edition 4034
O.S. 25" maps 1st. Edition 4033
O.S. Plan 1886 3744
Parish Records 2406
25" Plans 1524
Overseers of the Poor Accounts 1674-1692 2060 & 2189
Parliamentary Survey 2636
Plan - Glebe Lands of Talbot, Mary; Young, George 1691
Plan of Bear Hall (1801). 2335
Police Station 207
Properties, sale and particulars with plans 4192
Rate Book 1855
Repair of Highways 718
Rhydd Court Estate, Plans and Sale Catalogues 1919. 4460/81
Ricketts Family Deeds 2309
School Building Grant Plans 4473
St. Michael's, Worcester City, Property Deeds 4426
Mortgage - John Herbert & Others 833
School Site Indentures 2809
Temple Family Deeds and Will 2309
Tithe Awards Plan 438, 1572
Table of Fees due to Bishop 2189
Trunk Roads, Built-up Area No. 1, Order Worcester - Tewkesbury at Kempsey 2556
Turner Deeds 1592
Vestry Meetings Minute Book 2189
Volunteers 1803. 2868
Watercolours and Etchings 2432
Whatley, Weston and Fox Deeds 4117
Wylde Bequest 3849
Related links:
Click here for the text of various bequests that are on the wall of the bell-ringers room in the church.
Click here for a list of commercial directories of Worcester and Worcestershire from the 1700s and 1800s that may contain information about Kempsey.
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Andy Morrall
Last updated 27th February 2003.
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