SELLY OAK ST MARY

Descriptive Notes:

Status:
Ecclesiastical Parish [25]
Created in 1862 from Northfield Ancient Parish.
Some ecclesiastical boundary alterations have occurred to create or help create a number of daughter parishes:
In 1892 - to create Selly Hill Ecclesiastical Parish
1911 - to create Selly Oak St Wulstan Ecclesiastical Parish. In 1980 St. Wulstan's amalgamated with the parish of St. Stephen's, Selly Hill [33]
1926 - to help create Bournville Ecclesiastical Parish (with Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish & Cotteridge Ecclesiastical Parish)
1933 - to help create ,with Northfield Ancient Parish, Weoley Castle Ecclesiastical Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP038822
4 miles S.W. of central Birmingham on the A38

Parish Church:
St Mary, Bristol Rd/ Lodge Hill Rd, Selly Oak

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

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1874 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

Register Copies:
Christenings 1861-1976 Marriages 1862-1979 Burials 1861-1954 Birmingham Central Library
Banns: Originals: 1976-81 Birmingham Central Library

Nonconformist:
Methodist (Bristol Rd): Marriages 1917-56 Birmingham Central Library

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Mary BMSGH microfiche [53]
At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
St. Mary: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 10 [Typescript.] - Published , 1986 - Author: Davis G L et al. (trans.)
St. Mary : Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16 - Published Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 1999 - Author: Davies, G L et al. (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:
1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

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