KIDDERMINSTER BOROUGH

Status:
Civil Parish [25]
Township in Kidderminster St Mary Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish in 1866.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO830769

Hundred:
Halfshire [25]

Poor Law Union:
Kidderminster [3] [25]

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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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:
Kidderminster , 1851 census vol 2,Part 1 BMSGH microfiche
Kidderminster , 1851 census vol 2,Part 2 BMSGH microfiche

1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1891- 1901 Kidderminster Workhouse at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

At Society of Genealogists:
Shropshire 1851 census returns : Kidderminster registration district HO 107/2037-2039 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
 
Staffordshire 1851 census returns : Kidderminster registration district HO 107/2037-2039 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996

Worcestershire 1851 census index HO 107/2039 : Kiddermister registration district - Lower Mitton & Bewdley sub-districts [Microfiche.] - Published , 1998 - Author: Friend, A F (trans.)

1851 census Worcestershire, vol. 2a & 2b Kidderminster : transcript & surname index - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991-92 - Author Friend, A F

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 (trans.)

Worcestershire 1851 census returns : Kidderminster registration district HO 107/2037-2039 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996

Worcestershire 1861 census returns : Kidderminster registration district RG/9 2075-2082 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
 
Worcestershire 1891 census returns: Kidderminster registration district RG 12/2311-2318 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Bennett Street School
Admission register - 1912 - 56 - Ref: BA 11869/1 (i) - (iv)

Charity School, High Street
Attendance Registers [microfilm] - 1758 - 1839 - Ref: BA 3635

Coventry Street
Boys Dept - Log books - 1873 - 1942 - Ref: BA 1268/54
Boys School - Log book - 1884 - 1940 - Ref: BA 12720
Girls Dept - Log books - 1899 - 1940 - Ref: BA 1268/55 (i)
Half-Time Dept - Log books - 1884 - 94 - Ref: BA 1268/55 (iii)

Hoobrook C E School
Admission Register - 1933 - 55 - Ref: BA 4017
Log book - 1880 - 1924 - Ref: BA 2435

Kidderminster Board School Infants Dept
Log books - 1873 - 99 - Ref: BA 1268/55 (ii)

Leswell C E First School
Admission Register - 1977 - 83 - Ref: BA 9102/10 (xii)
Log books - 1976 - 83 - Ref: BA 10494/2 (ii)
This school has previously been known as Leswell C E Infants School and St Georges Infants School. The school was closed in July 1983

New Meeting C P and Junior Mixed School
Admission Register - 1940 - 64 - Ref: BA 4432
Punishment book - 1945 - 46 - Ref: BA 4432

New Meeting Primary School
Log book - 1940 - 1965 - Ref: BA 4529

New Meeting School
Log book - boys - 1863 - 86, 1886 - 1922, 1922 - 40 - Ref: BA 4446
Log book - girls - 1863 - 84, 1885 - 1911, 1912 - 29, 1929 - 42 - Ref: BA 4446

Worcester Cross Schools
Log book - 1872 - 1922 - Ref: BA 8915/1 (i)

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

Directories:
See Kidderminster St. Mary

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 7th February 2010

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