On
the shelves at either the Worcester Family History Centre or the County
Record Office at County Hall. Hartwrights included in many from 1820
onwards. Directories
Estate Maps
Ref 5:119 BA 4383 f970. Negative copy of the 1834 maps relating to Robert Berkeley’s
Spetchley Estate with reference to Ravenshill Farm, Tibberton,
Worcs. [John Hartwright b. 1753]
Freemen of the City of Worcester
29 January 1770 Thomas Hartwright [b. between 1753-55]
admitted and sworn citizen as apprentice to John Apperley baker and
maltster.
Freemen Indenture
Book 1804-1823.City of Worcester
Archive ref A15
25
June 1812 William Hartwright [b. 1789] paid £20 composition to
become a Freeman of the City “in order to trade”. Presumably
as maltster with his father-in-law Richard Ford.
Land Tax Records
Most likely to still exist for the period 1784-1832 as Clerk of the
Peace used the lists to work out who was entitled to vote in parliamentary
elections. Annual lists include names of owners, tenants. Partial search
only made. Hartwrights found in the following parishes:-
1781: Ref 152 BA 823/1. William Hartwright in 1) Hallow, Battenhall - for
his farm owned by Mr Benbow. 2) Claines (Milham [sic] and Hawford)
1783: Ref 152 BA 823/1. William Hartwright Battenhall [b. circa 1726]
- for his farm owned by Mr Benbow. Claines Tapenhall
1787: Ref 152 BA 823/2. Claines [Tapenhall], Oddingley Thomas Hartwright [b.
circa 1753] - for the wood and Netherwood Farm owned by Rt Hon Lord
Foley], Naunton Beauchamp. John Hartwright farm owned by Robert Cliffe],
Pinvin [John Hartwright]
1788/89 Ref 152 BA 823/3 or 4. Battenhall - George Hartwright (i) and John Hartwright
(ii) for their farms. [Owned by (i) Mr Benbow and (ii) Robert Berkeley
Esq. Claines [Tapenhall], Kempsey Broomhall – Mr Hartwright [owned
by Rev Dr Nash], Oddingley as 1787. Warndon, John Hartwright [owned
by Robert Berkeley]
1792 Ref 152 BA 823/7. Battenhall George Hartwright [owned by Thomas Benbow],
Claines [Tappenhall Tithing], Warndon - As 1778.
1800 Ref BA 823/8. Kempsey . Mr Hill for late Hartwrite.
1801 Ref 152 BA 823/8. Norton by Kempsey Mrs Hartwright [owned by Joseph Castle]
1817 Ref 152 BA 1636/5. Claines Borraston & Hartwright [owner William Wall],
George Hartwright [owned by Samuel Wall], Kempsey Mr Hartwright, Warndon
John Hartwright [owned by Robt. Berkeley]
1820 Ref 152 BA 823/19. Kempsey George Hartwright [owned by Rev Dr Nash]
1820 Ref 152 BA 1636/7. Naunton Beauchamp John Hartwright [owned by Joseph Berwick]
1832 Ref 152 BA 823/36(v) . Eldersfield. James Hartwright for Hardwick
Court [owned by Earl Coventry] For more details see William
and James Hartwright - The Taxman Cometh!
Licensed Gamekeepers
Records for Worcestershire
Ref
750:7 BA 7335 Parcel 104 iv 3-4 1749 – 1763 plus transcribed
indexed Registration Books. Appointment of gamekeepers including George
Hartwright (1767-1833), his half brother William and William’s
son James. George is the antecedent of many USA and Canadian Hartwrights.
The Clerk to the Peace issued a certificate to all those men registered
as being qualified to kill and sell game, this included manorial gamekeepers.
It is possible to trace the areas in which George lived over a period
of 21 years starting in Salwarpe in 1789 and finishing in Upton-on-Severn
in 1810. George
Hartwright - Licensed to kill 1789
Licensed Victuallers
Records for the City of Worcester
Ref 496.5 BA 9360 William Hartwright [married Richard Ford’s daughter Ann
in December 1811]. Richard is mentioned in the Quarter Sessions LV records
from 1800 for a large number of inns and coffee houses. William appears
to be in business with his father-in-law from 1817 when he paid £10
for a licence. Click here for Hartwrights
behind bars
Maps see also
Tithe Commutation
Ref f9705:119 BA 4383. Photocopy of the 1834 survey map for Robert Berkeley’s
estate.
John Hartwright [b. 1753] of Ravenshill, Tibberton
– 241 acres 2 perches
Ref 705:192 BA 5589 7/8/9 and plan 901:5. 1835 Documents relating to maps
and compensation in respect of the improvement of the navigation of
the River Severn from the Lower Parting in the Gloucestershire to the
Gladder or Whitehouse Brook in Worcestershire showing the position of
several proposed cuts or canals, locks, weirs etc.
Plan 14 and 15 for the Kempsey area show the east side river bed and bank
of grass field and the Horse Towing path along the bank with details
of the owners Lord Eastnor and the Hon. James Somers Cocks where the
occupier was George Hartwright. Compensation was paid to the owner not
the occupier.
Marriage Licences
Ref 899:848 BA 12010. Refer to Mrs Piggott’s Worcestershire Indices at
the Family History Centre. They cover the period 1701 to 1837.
There are also indices in bride’s names order.
Nomination to
the Curacy
Ref 732:2 BA 2048 parcel 2, 39 and 54. William Richard Hartwright [born 1860]
parents William Richard and Charlotte Tolley Hartwright. Includes copy
of the Licence in Theology from Durham University, 13 December 1881.
Stipend £140 p.a. St Martin’s, Worcester. See also page 5 of The Hartwrights.
Parish Chest
with Parish Registers, Presentments and Accounts etc See
also A
list of 600+ other names
(Churchwardens Accounts, Overseers of the Poor etc)
Can be used as a means to confirming that an ancestor was living in a particular
parish and possibly where.
Claines including
Ref 850 BA 2683 1(i) . 24 January 1737. Churchwarden Thomas Hartwright settled
his accounts
Ref 009:1 BA 2636 47676/12 – “A threepenny levy 1747 for Tappenhall, Mildham, Hawford, Astwood, Hallow, Claines, Barbon, Smile
[sic] and Tollordine” includes:
Mr Harrison Bromsgrove for Oakey 2s 2d
Mr Harrison or Tent. [Tenant] Hartwright 7s 6d
Mr Badderley or Tent Forde 3s 11d
Mr John Frogmore or Tent Hartwright 7s 0d
Mr John Frogmore for Walls and land at Heath 3s 0d and for Powells 1s 0d
3] Ref 009:1 BA 2636 47676/10 - Claines Rent Book 1809 Resiants [Residents]
Includes George Hartwright. 4] Ref 009:1 BA 2636 47476/11 Claines
Rentall - Rents arising yearly from the Manor of Whitestone of Claines
in the County of Worcester and due to the Lord Bishop of Worcester for
which he paid his bailiff £3 to collect included
Hallow [sic now called Hollow/Holy Claines] Claines Tything
Copyhold No 57 Richd Harrison Esq H Yeomans
Hartwright £1 2s
Lease 66 William Hartwright now Wm
Jones 2s 0d
4] Ref 850 BA 2683/13 No 182. 5 April1737 Claines Indenture for placing
Elizabeth Onions a poor
child of the parish with Thomas Hartwright [b.1698] to learn the
Art of Husbandry.
5] Ref 850 BA 2683/13 No 271. 29 April 1741. The same for Ann Wallen placing
her with Thomas Hartwright husbandman to learn the “mystery of
good Housewifery”. Mentions John Shervin [sic] - Churchwarden,
John Garway and John Webb - Overseers of the Poor. Signatures of James
Stillingfleet and R Cooksey.
6] Ref 850 BA 2683/2(ii)1754 Thomas Hartwright mentioned in respect of Apprentice
Money.
7] Ref 850 BA 2683 12/13. 24 January 1757. Mary Tombs bound apprentice to William
Band to learn “the Art and Mistery [sic] of Good Housewifery”
signed in the presence of Thomas Hartwright [the Younger?] and James
Withey. Other signatures William Browning, Richard Daniel, Moses Yarnold,
Wm Surman, R. Meadowcourt and Wormley.
8] Ref 850 BA 2683/1(i).
Claines Churchwarden Accounts. William Hartwright [b. 1789]
as witness for 1812, 1813 -1814 The accounts Include “ R Holder’s
Account for taking the Snow off the Church Etc 15s”. and “Paid
to the Ringers on Acct. of Peace for Bonaparte dethroned 2s 6d”
9] Ref 850 BA 2683/13. Claines Overseers of the Poor 1834.
Among occasional signatories was William Hartwright
10] Ref 850 BA 2683/8(i) Churchwarden Accounts
Easter 1862-1863 for F H Needham and W R Hartwright.
11] Ref 850 2683/2(ii) Claines – Charities
Ref 850 BA 2683/2 (ii). 1816-1817 at the time that William Hartwright the Maltster
was Churchwarden.
Ref 850 BA 2683 Easter 1839 to Easter 1840 William Hartwright [the Maltster]
and John Mills – church wardens administered the following charities:-
Rev. Thomas Cookes Charity; Mrs Walkers Charity Deans Green; The Parish
Close Walter and Edward Thomas Charity; William Swift Esq Charity at
the Tinkers; Wm Wingfield’s; Wm. Norton’s; Mrs Attwood’s;
Evans Charity and Moses Hyatt’s Charity. Those inspecting the
accounts include James Hartwright, William’s son.
Others J H Wilding Chairman, Offley Wakeman, Thomas Evans, Thos Williams, Willm.
Holden, Geo Hope [?]
Eldersfield
Ref 850 BA 8857/6 1] Church rate 11th September 1860. George Hartwright
[b. 1827] occupied 42 acres of land owned by Mrs Hawkins, Mr
Clark [John Clarke?] Mr Taylor and Pittes [?] with a rateable value
of £66 for which the annual church rate was 16. 5d [82p]. While his
brother James [b. 1824] occupied 33 acres in the parish and paid 13s.
[65p] church on land with the rateable value of £52.
Ref 850 BA 8557/ 6 2] Churchwarden George Hartwright 1864-1865
Ref 850 BA 8557/9 3] Overseers of the Poor for Eldersfield Parish. A parish
meeting would have been held in the Vestry Room when the Overseer of
the Poor and the Surveyors accounts were examined. The Officers were
then appointed for the subsequent year.
1822 – James Hartwright for Hardwick Court. 1831- George Hartwright for
Nash End, 1836 - Thomas Jeffes for Hardwick Court, 1840 - Robert Sivel
for Nash End, 1844 - Mary Hartwright for Drinkers End. 1861 George
for Drinkers End and John Hawkins for the Hill. 1877 - Mr William H
Bishop for Lucas. 1881 - Mr John Crump and Mr George Hartwright [b.
abt. 1827].
Kempsey
Ref 850 BA 2189/5 (ii). 1] Indenture of 10 February 1783 for Elizabeth Willis
mentioning William Hartwright
[b. 1724] yeoman, churchwarden placing her as a poor child of the parish
with Solomon and Catherine Humphreys, to learn the” Art of fruitering,
gloveressing or sewing Gloves.” For which they were paid 30 shillings.
Signatures of William Hartwright and Robert Hurdman – Churchwardens.
William Baker and William Hull – Overseers of the Poor. Bullock
and John Hunt - Witnesses. Justices of the Peace N Wic/l/kins and Tim.
Edwards. Solomon and Catherine Humphreys and the mark of Elizabeth Willis.
Ref 850 BA 2189/1a. 2] 1783 New parish register. Written across a page in
large letters. “William Hartwright Churchwarden June 28 1783.”
In a different hand “An account of the population of the parish
of Kempsey was undertaken AD1800 [see the list of burials that year]
At which time the parish contained one hundred and sixty-seven families,
being altogether eight hundred and forty-two persons.”
Ref 705:380 BA2309 18 (ii) 3] Kempsey Rate Book 1855
Assessment for the Relief of the Poor, in the parish of Kempsey.
[A useful resource for everyone researching a family living in Kempsey
as it gives details of both the owner and occupier of the land assessed
for the Poor Rate]
Martley
Ref 850 BA 3454/1 (i) Parish Registers [Possible
and definite “Hartwrights”]
Burial 6 November 1660 William Ackridge.
Baptism 20 August? 1668 John Artright
Baptism 7 December 1726 Thomas son Edward and Elizabeth Hartrit
Ref 850 BA 354/2(a)Marriage 14 October 1765 Lydia Hartwright [dau. of Edward
and Ursula Hartwright nee Small] to John Farrington (sojourner)
Oddingley
Ref 870 BA 2289/15(i).Churchwarden presentments-Thomas Hartwright II [b
abt 1726] and Thomas III [b. 1755] of Netherwood Farm
The parish
registers includes the birth of Elizabeth Hartwright who
married Thomas Prosser in Birmingham, Warwickshire and emigrated to
the USA. She died in 1871 in New York State. If one of Thomas Prosser’s
descendants would like precise details please contact me. The records
of Churchwarden Accounts, Overseer of the Poor and similar records do
not appear to have survived.
Powick
Includes Ref 850 BA 3802. The placing of 9 year olds William and Jemima Parton
poor children of the parish as apprentices to William Hartwright of
Powick by the Overseers of the Poor Abraham Thompson and John Edwards.
William Hartwright [b. 1783] to teach young William the “Art
of Good Husbandry.”
Salwarpe
Parish Registers
The following are believed to be Hartwrights. See page 1 of The Hartwrights.
Ref 850 BA 8650/1(a) i
1723 23 January Thomas Hottredge an d Mary Penrice both from Salwarpe
were married by banns.
1724 6 January William son of Thomas Hottridge and Mary his wife was
baptised.
1726 4 May Mary dau. of Thomas Hottridge and Mary his wife was
baptised
1726 16 July Mary dau of Thomas Hotteridge and Mary was buried
1727 10 September Thomas son of Thomas Hottridge and Mary his wife was baptised
Spetchley.
Ref 850 BA 4780/1(i). Hartwright burials in C of E churchyard to right of
path. Parish register shows William Hartwright of Clerkenleap’s
second wife buried using name Hartridge on March 20 1774. Their daughter Ann bur. 1
Dec 1771. Other burials on Part 1 of the National Burial Index CD published
2002.
Stoulton
Ref 850 BA 10176/1(iv). Marriage 18
August 1755. Thomas Hartwright [TH I of Claines] married Elizabeth
Jones, widow of Stoulton. Witness George and John Reeve.
Tibberton
Indices to Quarter Sessions Order books LQ942.44. See also Quarter Session records
July 1817 re theft of grain by John Slater from John Hartwright [b.
1753]. John & Henry Hartwright and the
case of the missing wheat
Ref 850 BA 8293 and BA 9629 Churchwardens and parish registers 19th
century onwards. Parish Councillor in 1907 was Harry Hartwright [b.1868]
of Gordon’s Farm.
Welland
Ref 850 BA 7388/16. 9 October 1835 Marriage of Thomas Hartwright of Hanbury
[b. abt.1797] to Beaton Webster a widow. [Census records indicate
that both were tailors]
Whittington
Ref 850 BA 5063/2. Chapel warden – John Hartwright [of Swinesherd b.1753]
1805 to 1810
Worcester,
All Saints
Marriage
register Ref 850 BA 2335/7a(i). July 1843 James Hartwright
[b. 1819] to Jane Thomas [b.1822] both of this Parish
– Discontinued having ascertained that they do not reside in the
parish. Although the statement in the register is true it is unknown
why they did not marry for another 16 years. See also page 12 of The
Hartwrights.
Worcester
Old St Martins
Ref 850 BA 10661. William Richard Hartwright [b.1860] curate 1883/1884.
See also page 5 of The Hartwrights
Worcester
St Peters
including rebuilding of St Peters CE Church Ref 850 BA 6100/1 [Another useful
resource for anyone searching for a family in Worcestershire.]
The Subscription Book [long list of names] for re-building of St Peter’s
1837.
William Hartwright [William the Maltster] gave £10, subscriber no 228.
A grand total of £1216-0-7d with a further £311-16-6d to be collected.
There is also a book with a list in order of subscriptions received
which states that London gave £600 the Diocese £600 and parishioners
£588-4s-0d, Whittington £89-13s-od. and Non residents £751-1-6d.
Photograph
Ref 211.02:10 BA 558/2. 1939 - Albert James Hartwright, [b.1885]
County Surveyor with other long serving colleagues – George Fennell
and H Treadwell. Aggregate Local Government Service 153 years. See
page 5 of The Hartwrights for the photograph.
Poll Books
Worcester City Archive
Book - Ref LQ1900.1847 Index to Worcester City Poll 30th July 1847
William Hartwright [b. 1789] the maltster and his son James Ford Hartwright
[b. 1812] a farmer of Linacres Claines voted for Francis
Rufford of Belbroughton.
8th
July 1852 Book – Ref LQ900.1852
James Hartwright of Linacres voted for J W Huddeston of Paper Buildings, Temple, London
William Hartwright of Cornmeadow Green, Claines Worcs. voted for J W Huddeston
and William Laslett, Abberton Hall Evesham
List of Voters Book Ref L.900
1879-1880
Worcester St Peters William Richard Hartwright [b. 1833] 4 Sidbury.
Quarter Sessions
Records
10th Quarter 14-17 July 1817 (Ref 110 Packet 628 (179-182) Midsummer
1817) Theft of wheat from John Hartwright [b. 1753] by John Slater.
Found guilty. Fined one shilling. Sent to the House of Correction –
three months Hard Labour. See John
& Henry Hartwright -1817 and the case of the missing wheat and
page 4 of “The Hartwrights”
Volume II 1821 -1829 Rex versus Henry Markwell. (5th July 1827 LQ942.44) Found not guilty of
stealing from Henry Hartwright [b. 1789]
Poor Relief 256b 7th quarter
John Hartwright of Swinesheard [sic] and James Dipple of Shrawley. To adjudicate
in the levying of the parish poor rate in respect of land in Grimley
owned by Joseph Cutforth Hill of Hallow.
Return of Owners
of Land 1873 for Worcs. Book - Reference LQ 333.33 2094244 presented
to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Copy at the
Family History Centre, Worcester.
Worcester in 1871 Population 338,837
Inhabited houses 69,998
Number of parishes 242
Name Place Extent of land
Gross estimated rentals
George Hartwright Forthampton 4 acres 18 perch
£7 10s
John Hartwright Sidbury
£39
Mrs Hartwright Powick 2 acres 3 rods 37p.
£19
Edward Baylis Hanbury 95 acres 3r. 6p.
£191 10s 0d
[wife Sarah Hartwright]
[Misses Rimmell St Johns 33 acres 1r. 33p.
£102
Hartwright relations This will be for Grove Farm.]
Settlement Records
where Hartwrights employed the person claiming settlement. The WRO does
not hold a full index. Contact professional researcher David Everett
at david@dmeverett.fs.co.uk who has indexed
all settlement records ( examinations, certificates and removal orders)
relating to people from Worcestershire.
The following people were trying to prove that they were settled in a particular
parish.
1757 Thomas Hodgkiss claimed he had worked for eleven years for Edward Hartwright
of Claines, Worcs.
1764 Thomas Brookes claimed that he had worked for William Hartwright fourteen
years before in St Peter’s extra, Worcester.
1777 Ralph Fleet claimed that he had worked seven years before for Mr Hartwright
in Claines.
1793 William Turner had trained eleven years before as a husbandman with John
Hartwright of Claines.
1821 Thomas Lowe aged 24 claimed he had worked four years before for John Hartwright
of Peopleton.
Tithe Maps and
Apportionments
Under the 1836 Tithe Commutation Act parishioners no longer paid a tithe (one
tenth) of the main produce (stock and labour) of their owned or rented
lands to the Church of England minister of the parish, but instead paid
an annual rent, which was calculated on the cost of corn. For this
purpose it was necessary to draw up a detailed map of the parish numbering
all fields. The Apportionment describes who owned the land who rented
it, the size of the fields and what the fields were used for. The apportionments
can help in locating rural ancestors.
Tithe Commutations for the following parishes contain references to Hartwrights.
P is for Plan [Map] and A for Apportionment.
Claines
P – Ref 705:380 BA 3687/5. A – Ref 850 BA 2683/25. - William
Hartwright the Maltster and his son James Ford Hartwright.
Eldersfield.
1845 . P – Ref (b)850 BA 8557/18. and /19 (A)
- Mary Hartwright [widow of James b. 1791] includes strips she
farmed in the common field.
Kempsey P – Ref s26894 BA 828/1.
A – Ref b26894 BA 428/2. - George of Timberdine.
Norton–juxta-Kempsey
Ref AP x850 BA 4511. - John of Little Broomhall [b. 1793 son of
George of Timberdine]
Powick
P – Ref 850 BA 5233. A – Ref b850 BA 3802/5. - George of
Kempsey [b. 1791 another of George of Timberdine’s sons].
St Peters,
Worcester AP - Ref x760/534.1 BA 1572. - John
of Little Broomhall.
See Everyday
Country Folk - Some Farming Hartwrights in Worcestershire
Tax
Ref 850 BA8557/21 (ii). Misc. Land Tax Collector’s Duplicate of supplementary
assessments
For information concerning James Hartwright and a list of others mentioned
in the 1833 Eldersfield
Land Tax and First Assessment for Tax for 1834 Click here for William and James Hartwright -The Taxman
Wills and Letters of Administration
proved at Worcester 1751 -1922
Books of Indices on shelves at Family History Centre Book ref L924:3924
Ref 008.7 BA3590 contains the documents. Click here for Wills
and Admons from 1650 -1922
A list of 600+
other names mentioned in the same documents as Hartwrights
