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Worcester Branch
of the
Birmingham & Midland Society
for Genealogy and Heraldry

BARNT GREEN

Descriptive Notes:

Barnt Green is in the County of Worcester, but the Diocese of Birmingham. It has always been a commuter settlement; most of the village being a product of the 20th century, with many of the present dwellings and buildings being constructed between the wars, and most of the remaining houses built in the 1940s and 1970s.

Status:
Ecclesiastical Parish [25]
It was created in 1922 from The Lickey Ecclesiastical Parish. [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP009736
On the B4120, 3 miles N.W. of Alvechurch

Parish Church:
St Andrew, Sandhills Road, Barnt Green, West Midlands B45 8NR

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Diocese of Birmingham [25]

Parish Registers:
Coverage Source
Originals at WRO Marriages 1920-69 [12]
Banns 1920-90 [12]

Some original registers are still at the church

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Andrew BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.Andrew Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Andrew: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 13 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1994 - Author: Farmer, G R (trans.) Society of Genealogists [59]

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901.

Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1881 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Schools Records:
A handlist of the records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.
© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
Comments, additions, corrections etc to Arthur Lewis
Last updated on 19th March 2008