NORTHFIELD

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
NORTHFIELD, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Birmingham, containing 1567 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the curacy of Coston-Hacket, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £14. 15. 2½ , and in the patronage of the Rev. John Thomas Fenwick. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is partly in the early English, and partly in the decorated, style, with a Norman door. The small river Rea, also the Birmingham and Worcester, and the Netherton canals, run through the parish, in which there are quarries of freestone. Here are some remains of Weoley castle, formerly belonging to the Jervoise family. A charity school is supported with the income arising from a bequest of £150 by William Worth, and another of £100, in 1779, by the Rev. Mr. Soley. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Including a chapel at Cofton Hackett, which had separate civil identity early. Cofton Hackett was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1866 and was ecclesiastically refounded in 1871. Northfield was abolished civilly in 1912 entirely to Birmingham Civil Parish (which was associated with Warwickshire) and Ancient Parish.
Additional ecclesiastically boundary alterations:
1862 - to create Selly Oak St Mary Ecclesiastical Parish
1933 - to help create Weoley Castle Ecclesiastical Parish
1938 - to help create Allens Cross Ecclesiastical Parish
1965 - to help create Shenley Green Ecclesiastical Parish
1966 - to help create West Heath Ecclesiastical Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP025793
6 miles S.S.W. of Birmingham along the A441

Parish Church:
Northfield: St.Laurence, Church Hill
Allens Cross: St.Bartholomew, Frankley Beeches Rd.,Northfield, Birmingham

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1905, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Birmingham (1905 - *) [1] [25]

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

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

Adjoining Parishes:
Harborne (Staffordshire); Edgbaston (Warwickshire); Moseley; Kings Norton; Frankley; Halesowen; Hagley [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1758-1841	[27]
	Marriages	1742-1837	[27]
	Burials	1758-1850	[27]
	General	1560-1757	[27]

No parish records held at Worcestershire Record Office. The originals are at Birmingham Central Library [5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1612-1700

Register Copies:
On BMSGH microfiche [9] :-
Part 1 Christenings & Marriages 1560-1741/2 Burials 1560-1757
Part 2 Christenings 1758-1841 Marriages 1742-1837 Burials 1758-1850
Register supplement to Part 1 Christenings 1742-57 (Book)

At Birmingham Central Library :-
Banns: Allens Cross: 1938-82
Christenings 1560-1983 Marriages 1560-1981 Burials 1560-1990

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
Christenings 1560-1741, 1758-1841, Marriages 1560-1837, Burials 1560-1850; burials in woollen 1678-98; memoranda & lay subsidy rolls of 1280 & 1327 & miscellanea relating to the parish, wills - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1978-80 - Author: Day, Leonard G (trans.)
Christenings 1742-57; supplement to part 1 of the register of the parish of Northfield - Author: Woodgate, G (trans.)
Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1830-31, Christenings & Burials 1843-44, 1846-49, 1851-55, 1874-75 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St.Laurence BMSGH microfiche [53]
Birmingham (St. Laurence) : MIs: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 17 [Typescript.] - Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1989 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.) 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:
1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1891- 1901 Northfield, St.Paul's Convent
1841- 1901 Birmingham Central Library

At Society of Genealogists :-
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
Edgbaston & Northfield 1851 census [Microfiche.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
Worcestershire1851 census index HO 107/2049 : Kings Norton registration district - Edgbaston (Northfield) [Microfiche.] - Published 1998 - Author: Friend, A F (comp)

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Middleton: Arbitration award [1438]

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