Lower Sapey, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire  Worcestershire Parishes

SAPEY-PRITCHARD (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Bromyard, Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Hundred-House and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 11 miles (W. N. W.) from Worcester; containing 252 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the border of Herefordshire, and consists of 1606 acres of land, in equal portions of arable and pasture, producing hops, apples, &c. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £4. 4. 2., and in the patronage of the Executors of the late Rev. W. S. Rufford: the tithes have been commuted for £228. 10., and there are 67 acres of glebe, with a house.

From: Lewis Samuel A., "A Topographical Dictionary of England" (1848), pp. 15-20. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51255 Date accessed: 14 October 2011.



Parish History
Lower Sapey is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire Lower Sapey Wikipedia

Lower Sapey is an Ancient parish in the county of Worcestershire and part of the parish boundary forms part of the county boundary with neighbours Upper Sapey, Herefordshire Wolferlow, Herefordshire Tedstone Wafer, Herefordshire and Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire

The church of St Bartholomew Lower Sapey dates from 1877 and was designed by Frederick R kempson of Hereford and has been designated as a grade II listed building British listed building

The parish is known in some records as Sapey Pritchard see 1868 National Gazetteer transcription by Colin Hinson and Lewis, Samuel. A., "A Topographical Dictionary of England" (1848), pp. 15-20. British History Online

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
See Worcestershire Census

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Many archives and local history collections in public libraries in England and Wales offer online census searches and also hold microfilm or fiche census returns.

Images of the census for 1841-1891 can be viewed in census collections at Ancestry (fee payable) or Find My Past (fee payable)

The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

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Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.Find my Past 1911 census search

Poor Law Unions
Bromyard Poor Law Union,Herefordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Worcestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
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Web sites
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