Worcestershire

1828-29     Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Worcestershire

1835          Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Worcestershire

1839          Robson's Birmingham & Sheffield Directory.

1842          Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Worcestershire

1850          Post Office Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire & Worcestershire

1851           Slater's Directory of Birmingham, Worcester & the Potteries

1851          Lascelles & Co.'s Directory of Worcester & Neighbourhood, Worcestershire

1855          Billing's Directory & Gazetteer of Worcestershire

1865          Jones's Mercantile Directory of S. Staffordshire & E. Worcestershire

1876          Post Office Directory of Worcestershire.

1879           Littlebury's Directory of Worcester and District

Page 576 – Eckington

Eckington is in the diocese and archdeaconary of Worcester and rural deanery of Pershore; living, a vicarage, value £228, with residence; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; vicar, Rev William Ismay, M.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1877.

Parish Church (Holy Trinity) – Rev William Ismay, M.A., Vicar; Messrs John Parish and Thomas Phipps, churchwardens; George Lewis, Parish Clerk

Page 577 – Eckington

Ismay Rev William, M.A., (vicar) The Vicarage.

1892           Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire

Page 79 - Eckington

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £305, including 95 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William Ismay M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Private residents

Ismay Rev William M.A. Vicarage

Page 280

Ismay Rev W. M.A. Eckington, Pershore

1896           Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire

Page 88 - Eckington

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £280, including 95 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William Ismay M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Private residents

Ismay Rev William M.A. Vicarage

1900           Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire

Page 91 - Eckington

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £262, including 95 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William Ismay M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Private residents

Ismay Rev William M.A. Vicarage

Page 345

Ismay Rev W. M.A. Eckington, Pershore

1902           Court Guide & County Blue Book of Warwickshire, Worcestershire & Staffordshire

Page 505 – Beneficed Clergy etc.,

Ismay William, M.A., Cantab. – V. Eckington, Pershore

1908           Littlebury's Directory of Worcester, Malvern, Droitwich and Pershore

Page 639 – Eckington

Parish Church (Holy Trinity) – Rev William Ismay, M.A., Vicar; William D’Amery and William Reece, churchwardens; Thomas Berwick, Parish Clerk and Sexton

1912           Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire

Page 102 - Eckington

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £260, including 95 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William Ismay M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and rural dean of Pershore.

Page 103 - Eckington

Private residents

Ismay Rev William M.A. (vicar and rural dean) Vicarage

Page 218

Public Elementary Schools

St Andrew’s (boys, girls & junior mixed0, built in 1840 & enlarged in 1884, for 400 children; average attendance, 140 boys, 90 girls and 101 junior mixed:- William Thomas Chapman, master; Miss Mary Ismay, mistress; Miss Gertrude Bricknell, juniors mistress.

Page 369

Ismay Rev William. M.A. Vicarage, Eckington, Pershore

1914          Bennett's Business Directory for Worcestershire

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