WYTHALL

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
WYTHALL, a chapelry in the parish of KING'S NORTON, upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from Bromsgrove. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Bromsgrove. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ecclesiastical & Civil Parish [25]
Ecclesiastical Parish created in 1755 from Bromsgrove Ancient Parish, and refounded in 1853 from Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish & Alvechurch Ancient Parish (both Worcestershire) & Solihull Ancient Parish (Warwickshire). Civil Parish created in 1911 from part of the part of Kings Norton Civil Parish not transferred to Birmingham County Borough (associated with Warwickshire) & Ancient Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP073749
1½ miles north of Jumction 3 on the M42 motorway

Hollywood is 2 miles north from Wythall and Headley Heath is 1½ miles N.W. Silver Street, 1 mile north; Kingswood, 2½ miles north; Inkford, ¾ mile south; Tanner's Green, ¾ mile east are scattered hamlets. [57]

Parish Church:
St.Mary
The church was declared redundant on 28 October 1992 and sold for office use. [80] Services are held at the Coppice Primary School, Shawhurst Lane.

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

Hundred:
Upper Halfshire [11] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Bromsgrove [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Kings Norton; Shirley (Warwickshire); Solihull (Warwickshire); Beoley; Alvechurch [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1760-1967	[5]
	Marriages	1854-1966	[5]
	Burials	1860-1914	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	1760-1977	[12]
	Marriages	1854-1983	[12]
	Burials	1860-1965	[12]
	Banns	1965-74, 1980-88	[12]

Baptisms 1770-1812 are said to be included in Kings Norton register.[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1788 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1760-1875
	Marriages	1854-1885

Register Copies:
Christenings 1760-1967, Marriages 1854-1937 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984 Society of Genealogists [68]

Nonconformist
Monumental Inscriptions
Kingswood Meeting House BMSGH microfiche [53]
Kingswood Meeting House Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
St. Mary & cemetery BMSGH microfiche [53]
St. Mary & cemetery Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
St. Mary: MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 3 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1982 - Author: Wheatcroft, Wyn et al. (trans.)

St. Mary & cemetery : MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 16 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1997 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (trans.)

St. Mary: MIs [CD-ROM.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 2001

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
Kingswood Meeting House : MIs in the churchyard: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 6 [Typescript.] - Published , 1987 - Author: Wheatcroft, Wyn (trans.)

Kingswood Meeting House: MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 3 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1981 - Author: Wheatcroft, Wyn et al. (trans.)

Kingswood Meeting House: MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions vol. 15 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1995 - Author: Pearsall, David (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 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 & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry2004 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Silver Street School
Log books.Note: The school is now known as Silver Mead Junior School. - 1875-1929 - Ref: BA 8202

Silvermead Junior School
Admission registers - 1902-25 - Ref: BA 10901/2(i)
Admission registers - 1971-91 - Ref: BA 10901/2(ii)-(iv)
Log books - 1929-91 - Ref: BA 10901/1(i)(ii)

St. Mary's C.E. School
Log books - 1897-19[64] - Ref: BA 8962/3(iii)

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

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