Great Barr, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Great Barr, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Great Barr, Staffordshire | |
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Type | England Jurisdictions |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | South Offlow |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Walsall |
Registration District | Walsall |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1654 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1664 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Walsall |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Staffordshire Record Office | |
Contents
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Great Barr is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1849 from chapelry in Aldridge, Staffordshire Genealogy Ancient Parish. BARR, GREAT, a parochial chapelry, in the parish of Aldridge, union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 5½ miles (N.) from Birmingham. [1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
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.
See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD
Church records[edit | edit source]
Great Barr St Margaret was formed from a former chapelry of Aldridge, Staffordshire Genealogy
Great Barr parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
FS = FamilySearch - free[3] |
GREAT BARR PARISH ST MARGARET (1654) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1749-1838 | 1813-1865 | ||||
FS | 1660-1809, 1813-1852, 1864-1870 | 1660-1685, 1698-1763, 1791-1809 |
Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1653-1952 Mar 1653-1958 Bur 1653-1948
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1664-1870 Mar 1664-1837 Bur 1664-1870
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Walsall Poor Law Union, Staffordshire Genealogy
Probate records
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Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire 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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Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/GreatBarr/index.html
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 153-158. Date accessed: 26 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 10 July 2014.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (A-M), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 18 September 2013.