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

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
At BMSGH Shop
St. Michael

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
St. Michael

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]
St. Michael

At Society of Genealogists [59]
COFTON HACKETT (St. Michael & All Angels) : Monumental Inscriptions: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 15 [Typescript.]   IN: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 15   Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, Nd.   Author Farmer, G R (transcriptions)Source D: Birmingham & Midland Soc. for Genealogy & Heraldry 

War Memorials:
For the names of those commemorated on a War Memorial at  St. Michael & All Angels Church see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Casualties/ListByMemorial/Cofton Hackett St Michael and All Angels Church

Census Records:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit. 

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses.  Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
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
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Last updated on 11th December 2011

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