CHURCHILL & BLAKEDOWN

Descriptive Notes:

Status:
Civil Parish [25]
Created in 1933 by the union of Churchill Ancient Parish, parts of Hagley Ancient Parish & Kidderminster Foreign Civil Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO879793
About 3½ miles N.E. of Kidderminster along the A456

Parish Church:
St. James the Great

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:
Churchill & Blakedown
1841 1861-91 1901Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
Blakedown
1881 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1851 census Worcestershire, vol. 2 Kidderminster : transcript & surname index: Chaddesley Corbett, Rushock, Stone, Broom, Churchill, Wolverley - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1992 - Author: Friend, A F Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1540-1901 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Blakedown - Graves & burials 1933-65; Offertory account book 1860-72, 1868-73; Preachers book 1872-85
Register of services 1920-30
Vestry meeting minute book 1849-1922
Tithe rent charge book 1842-88

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Churchill C E School
Log book - 1926-61 - 3543
Log books - 1881-1926 - Ref: BA 3536
Pre-school age admission register - 1945-48 - 3766/2

A handlist of other records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
Comments, additions, corrections etc to Arthur Lewis
Last updated on 27th March 2008

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