KINGS NORTON

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
NORTON (KING'S), a parish (formerly a market town) in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (S. S. W.) from Birmingham, containing, with Headley, Moseley, Moundsley, and Rednal, 3651 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bromsgrove, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is spacious, and principally in the decorated style of English architecture, with later insertions; the tower and spire are very fine. A free grammar school was endowed by Edward VI. This town received the grant of a market from James I; and during the succeeding reign, in the year l645, Hawkesley house, then belonging to the Middlemores, was burnt down by the royalists. The market is disused; but fairs are held April 25th and September 5th. The Birmingham and Worcester canal, in passing through this parish, forms a junction with that of Stratford on Avon, and is conveyed through a tunnel into the parish of Alvechurch. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
A chapel of ease in Bromsgrove Ancient Parish. It had separate civil identity early. It was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1846. [25]
A number of daughter parishes have sprung from Kings Norton Ecclesiastical parish entailing many ecclesiastical boundary alterations: 1849 - to help create Yardley Wood Ecclesiastical Parish (with Yardley Ancient Parish)
1853 - refound Moseley Ecclesiastical Parish [created in 1767 from Bromsgrove Ancient Parish]
1853 - to create Balsall Heath Ecclesiastical Parish
1853 - refound Wythall Ecclesiastical Parish (with Alvechurch Ancient Parish)
1863 - to help create Kings Heath Ecclesiastical Parish (with Moseley Ecclesiastical Parish)
1912 - to help create Stirchley Ecclesiastical Parish (with Moseley Ecclesiastical Parish)
1916 - to create Cotteridge Ecclesiastical Parish. Boundary altered in 1926 to help create Bournville Ecclesiastical Parish
1926 - to help create Bournville Ecclesiastical Parish (with Selly Oak St Mary Ecclesiastical Parish & Cotteridge Ecclesiastical Parish)
1932 - to help create Hazelwell Ecclesiastical Parish (with Stirchley Ecclesiastical Parish & Kings Heath Ecclesiastical Parish). Boundary altered in 1963 to help create Brandwood Ecclesiastical Parish
1956 - to help create South Yardley Ecclesiastical Parish (with Yardley Ancient Parish) 1957 - to create Longbridge Ecclesiastical Parish
1963 - to help create Brandwood Ecclesiastical Parish (with Hazelwell Ecclesiastical Parish)
1966 - to help create West Heath Ecclesiastical Parish (with Northfield Ancient Parish, Longbridge Ecclesiastical Parish & Cofton Hackett Ecclesiastical Parish) The civil boundary changes were as follows: 1894 - the part in the Birmingham County Borough created Balsall Heath Civil Parish to be in Birmingham County Borough [associated with Warwickshire]
1911 - loses part to Birmingham County Borough [associated with Warwickshire] & Ancient Parish, part to Cofton Hacket Civil Parish and part to create Wythall Civil Parish
1912 - Abolished civilly entirely to Birmingham County Borough [associated with Warwickshire] & Ancient Parish
[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP049789
5 miles south of central Birmingham on the A441

Parish Church:
St.Nicolas,The Green

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1905, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Birmingham (1905 - *) [25]

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

Poor Law Union:
Kings Norton (1836-1911) Bromsgrove (1911-12) [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes: Edgbaston (Warwickshire); Aston (Warwickshire); Bordesley (Warwickshire); Moseley; Yardley; Solihull (Warwickshire); Shirley (Warwickshire); Wythall; Beoley; Alvechurch; Cofton Hackett; Bromsgrove; Frankley; Northfield [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1844-1939	[5]
	Marriages	1837-1925	[5]
	Burials	1844-1922	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1546-1791	[27]
	Marriages and Burials	1546-1791	[27]
	General	1754-1844	[27]
Originals at WRO	Banns	1655-59, 1754-91, 1962-71, 1975 -76, 1978-89	[12]

Church of Epiphany:
Microform: Christenings 1926-38
This church covered the Longbridge estate. After 1938 baptisms were entered in the Kings Norton register.[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1613 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1613-1700

Register Copies:
On BMSGH microfiche [9] :
St Nicolas: Part 1: Christenings & Burials1795-1844 Marriages 1754/1837 Include banns 1754-71
St Nicolas: Part 2: Christenings 1546-1791
St Nicolas: Part 3: Marriages 1546-1754 Burials1546-1791
St Nicolas: Part 4: Burials1844-1998 Plus grave plan

Christenings 1546-1989 Marriages 1546-1990 Burials1546-1990 Birmingham Central Library [60]
Christenings 1546-1791, 1792-1844 Marriages 1754-1837 Burials1792-1844 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

At Society of Genealogists [68] :
Christenings (Index) 1546-1791, Marriages (Index) 1546-1754 [Manuscript.] - Published , 1948 - Author: Appleton, C Vivian (comp.)
Christenings & Burials 1546-1791, Marriages 1546-1754, banns 1655-59, vol. 1-2 [Typescript.] - Published , 1912
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1613-1700 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah
Marriages (Index) 1546-1754: Boyd's marriage index [Typescript.] - Published , 1925-55 - Author: Boyd, Percival ed.
Births 1653-62, Christenings & Burials 1546-1844, Marriages 1546-1837, banns 1754-71- Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1981-83 - Author: Bingham, E (trans.)
St. Nicolas: Burials 1844-1998 [Microfiche.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1999 - Author Cumberworth, L (trans.)

Nonconformist:
United Reform (Watford Rd): Marriages 1904-84 BRL [61]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Nicholas BMSGH microfiche [53]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :
St. Nicolas: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 25 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1986 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
St. Nicholas: MIs in the churchyard [Typescript.] - Published Salt Lake City, UT (USA) : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1947 - Author: Woodford, Hilda Mary (trans.)
St. Nicholas: MIs, vol. 1-2 [Typescript.] - Published Salt Lake City, UT (USA) : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1947 - Author Woodford, Hilda Mary (trans.)

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:
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14] :
1841-1901
1891 Kings Norton Cottage Homes
1891 Kings Norton Rubery Hill Lunatic Asylum
1891 Kings Norton Workhouse
1901 Kings Norton Rubery Hill Lunatic Asylum

At Birmingham Central Library :
1841- 81

At Society of Genealogists :
Worcestershire 1851 census index HO 107/2048 : Kings Norton registration district - Kings Norton sub-district [Microfiche.] - Published , 1998 - Author: Friend, A F (trans.)
Worcestershire 1851 census index HO 107/2049 : Kings Norton registration district - Edgbaston (Northfield) [Microfiche.] - Published 1998 - Author Friend, A F (comp)
Worcestershire 1851 census returns : Kings Norton registration district HO 107/2048-2050 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
Worcestershire 1861 census returns : Kings Norton registration district (part) RG/9 2120-2127 [Microfilm.] - Published London : Public Record Office, 1996
Worcestershire 1891 census returns: Kings Norton registration district RG 12/2349-2366 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003
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 & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 2004 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1791 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court rolls [1574-75, 1590], 1655
Kings Norton and Bromsgrove: Court rolls and other court papers [late 14th cent. c.1432]

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.

Other Sources:
At Society of Genealogists :-
The court rolls of the manor of Bromsgrove & King's Norton 1494-1504 : a calendar: Worcestershire Historical Society new series [vol. 3] - Published Warwick : Worcestershire Historical Society, 1963 - Author Baber, A F C
The history of King's Norton & Northfield wards - Published Birmingham : The Historical Association, Birmingham Branch - Author Lock, Arthur B

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