Cow Honeybourne
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A chapel in Gloucestershire (Kiftsgate Hundred) in Church Honeybourne Ancient Parish (otherwise Worcestershire, Blackenhurst Hundred). Cow Honeybourne had a separate civil identity early in Gloucestershire. It was ecclesiastically united early to Church Honeybourne and the union was reaffirmed 1885. Cow Honeybourne was transferred from Gloucestershire to Worcestershire in 1931. Abolished civilly in 1953 to help Honeybourne Civil Parish [25]
Parish Registers at Worcestershire Archives
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There was a church, but the parishioners mainly attended the Church at Honeybourne & the register is included in that of Church Honeybourne.[5]
Census Records
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.
Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Archives, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses. Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.
Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.
Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
1851-1901 at Worcestershire Archives [14]
1841-51 Gloucestershire Archives
Worcestershire 1891 census returns: Evesham registration district RG 12/2335-2337 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003 Society of Genealogists
Directories
An extract from the Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis:
HONEYBOURNE (COW), a parish-in the upper division of the hundred of KIFTSGATE, county of GLOUCESTER, 4 miles (N. W.) from Chipping-Campden, containing 333 inhabitants. The living was annexed to the perpetual curacy of Church-Honeybourne at the dissolution. The church, long in ruins, has been converted into houses for the poor, but the tower is still entire. A free school was established by subscription in 1806, when a school-room was erected, with a residence for the master, whose salary, amounting to £23 per annum, arises from the interest of certain stock purchased with the overplus, and the liberal contribution of Cotterill Corbet, Esq
Last Updated: 22/07/2012
