BMSGH HomeMOSELEY ST MARY
Status:
Ecclesiastical Parish [25]
Created in 1767 from Bromsgrove Ancient Parish but was included in Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish. Refounded 1853 from Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish (itself a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1846 from Bromsgrove Ancient Parish). [25]
Some ecclesiastical boundary alterations have occurred to create or help create a number of daughter parishes:
1863 - to help create Kings Heath Ecclesiastical Parish (with Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish)
1875 - to create Moseley St. Anne Ecclesiastical Parish
1912 - to help create Stirchley Ecclesiastical Parish (with Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish). In 1932 Stirchley Ecclesiastical Parish boundary altered to help create Hazelwell Ecclesiastical Parish (with Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish & Kings Heath Ecclesiastical Parish)
1914 - to help create Moseley St. Agnes Ecclesiastical Parish (with Yardley Wood Ecclesiastical Parish)
Location:
O.S. Ref: SP078832
3 miles south of central Birmingham on the A435
Parish Church:
St.Mary, St. Mary's Row
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1905, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Birmingham (1905 - *) [25]
Hundred:
Lower Halfshire [44] [8]
Poor Law Union:
Kings Norton [8] [3] [25]
Adjoining Parishes:
Aston, Yardley, Kings Norton, Northfield, Edgbaston [8]
Parish Registers:
No parish registers held at Worcestershire Record Office.
Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1795 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]
International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]
| Coverage | ||
|---|---|---|
| Parish Registers | Births / Christenings | 1796-1875 |
| Marriages | 1853-85 |
Register Copies:
St Mary: Christenings 1761-1841 Burials 1762-1850 BMSGH microfiche [9]
Banns: Originals: 1901- 1911, 1926-80 Birmingham Central Library
Christenings 1758-1960 Marriages 1853-1979 Burials 1761-1944 Birmingham Central Library
Christenings 1761-1841 Burials 1762-1850 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office [71]
At Society of Genealogists [68] :
Moseley (chapelry of Kings Norton) : Christenings 1813-41, Burials 1813-50 - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1978
St. Mary : Christenings 1758-1841, Burials 1761-1850 - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1973 - Author Horton, Dorothy M (trans.)
St. Mary: Christenings 1761-1841, Burials 1762-1850 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1973 - Author: Horton, Dorothy M (trans.)
Nonconformist:
Baptist (Oxford Rd): Marriages 1967-91 Birmingham Central Library
Baptist church, Oxford Road: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16 [Typescript.] Society of Genealogists
Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Mary BMSGH microfiche [53]
At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
St. Mary : Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 13 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1988 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.)
St. Mary : Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 2 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1976 - Author: Horton, Dorothy et al. (trans.)
St. Mary : Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 4 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1976 - Author: Horton, Dorothy (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.
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:
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 & Heraldry2004 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry Society of Genealogists
Directories:
MOSELEY, a chapelry in the parish of KING'S NORTON, upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE county of WORCESTER, 2 miles (S.) from Birmingham. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, endowed with £100 private benefaction £400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant and in the patronage of the Vicar of Bromsgrove. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, has lately received an addition of three hundred and sixty-two sittings, of which two hundred and forty-seven are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £250 towards defraying the expense. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]
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Last updated on 8th February 2010