COFTON HACKETT

Descriptive Notes:
Sometimes "Coston Hackett"

Status: Chapelry in Northfield Ancient Parish. It had separate civil identity early and was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1866. Ecclesiastically refounded in 1871 [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP000757
Stands at the foot of the Lickey Hills 1 mile north of Barnt Green

Parish Church:
St. Michael

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1919, when transferred to the Archdeaconry & Diocese of Birmingham [5] [25]

Hundred:
Upper Halfshire [28] [11] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Kings Norton; Alvechurch; Bromsgrove [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1549-1972	[5]
	Marriages	1580-1979	[5]
	Burials	1588-1979	[5]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1754-1811, 1918-71	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1611 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1550-1627
	Marriages	1580-1619
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1611-1700 (65%)

Register Copies:
Christenings 1550-54, 1601-27 Marriages 1580 & 1600-19 Burials 1582 & 1597-1626 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Michael BMSGH microfiche [53]
St. Michael Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Michael & All Angels: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 15 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry- Author Farmer, G R 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:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1871 census Greater Birmingham (part) plus Budbrooke, Dunchurch & Leamington surname & folio index plus images of the folios for pieces RG 10/2968-2974, 3076-3086, 3088-3089, 3119, 3134-3160 & 3187-3193 [CD-ROM] - Published Birmingham Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 2004 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry Society of Genealogists

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1554-1960 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Overseers of the poor account book 1777-1836
Highway rate books 1813-33, 1839-52
List of constables, churchwardens & overseers with details of the sums they handed over at the end of their term of office 1729-70
Churchwardens accounts 1836-70
Church rate book 1866-68
Register of apprentices & apprenticeship indentures 1811-18
3 notices to constables re meetings to appoint surveyors of highways and to licence inns, alehouses & victualling houses 1833-4
Copy of inclosure award & plan 1831. Scale 1":2 chains & plan 1840 Scale 1":10 chains

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Cofton Hackett C E School
Log book - 1917-27 - Ref: BA 8477/8

A handlist of the 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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