YARDLEY

Descriptive Notes:

Directories:
YARDLEY, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 4½ miles (E.) from Birmingham, containing 2313 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £9. 19. 4½ and in the patronage of Edmund Wigley, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Edburgh, exhibits various specimens of the English style of architecture, with a fine tower and spire of the later date; it has lately received an addition of one hundred and twenty sittings, of which one hundred are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £100 towards defraying the expense. Here are various bequests, producing a considerable income, for the education and relief of the poor. Great quantities of tiles are made in the neighbourhood, and conveyed to Birmingham, whence they are sent by the canals to various parts of the kingdom. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

MARSTON, a chapelry in the parish of YARDLEY, lower division of the hundred of PERSHORE, though locally in the upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, county of WORCESTER, 4½ miles (S. E.) from Birmingham. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a donative. The chapel was erected in 1704 by Job Marston, Esq. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
A number of daughter parishes have sprung from Yardley parish entailing many ecclesiastical boundary alterations. In :-
1849 - to help create Yardley Wood Ecclesiastical Parish.
1867 - to create Acocks Green Ecclesiastical Parish. In 1931 the boundary of Acocks Green was altered to help, together with Sparkhill St John the Evangelist Ecclesiastical Parish & Springfield Ecclesiastical Parish, create Tyseley Ecclesiastical Parish
1878 - to create Hay Mills Ecclesiastical Parish
1894 - to create Sparkhill St John the Evangelist Ecclesiastical Parish . In 1908 Sparkhill lost part to Sparkbrook Christ Church Ecclesiastical Parish, Warwickshire
1911 - Springfield Ecclesiastical Parish created from Sparkhill.
1931 the boundary of Sparkhill St John the Evangelist Ecclesiastical Parish was altered to help, together with Acocks Green Ecclesiastical Parish & Springfield Ecclesiastical Parish, create Tyseley Ecclesiastical Parish
1907 - Hall Green [Marston Chapel], formerly a chapel of Yardley Ecclesiastical Parish , was created an Ecclesiastical Parish from Yardley Ancient Parish. By 1950s, called 'Marston Green'. Later it was Hall Green Parish Church.
1932 to create Stechford Ecclesiastical Parish
1948 it gained part of Sheldon Ancient Parish, Warwickshire
1956, together with Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish, to create, South Yardley Ecclesiastical Parish
1967 to help create Garretts Green Ecclesiastical Parish
1968 to help, together with Tile Cross Ecclesiastical Parish (Warwickshire), create Lea Hall Ecclesiastical Parish .
Yardley was abolished civilly in 1912 entirely to Birmingham Ancient Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP135863
4 miles E.S.E. of central Birmingham along the Coventry Rd. (A45)

Parish Church:
St. Edburgh

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1905, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Birmingham (1905-1957), Archdeaconry of Aston & Diocese of Birmingham (1957 - *) [25]

Hundred:
Lower Pershore (until 1760) [28] [25]; Upper Halfshire (from 1760) [11] [15] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Solihull (1836-1911) [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Aston (Warwickshire); Marston; Sheldon (Warwickshire); Solihull (Warwickshire); Kings Norton [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Transcripts at WLHC	General	1539-1700	[27]

No parish registers held at Worcestershire Record Office. Original registers at Birmingham Central Library.[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1608 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1608-1701 (70%)

Register Copies:
Christenings 1539-1950 Marriages 1539-1969 Burials 1537-1935 Birmingham Central Library [60]
Yardley : Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1820-27 (BTs) (including Marston Chapel) [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998 Society of Genealogists [68]

Nonconformist:
Congregational (Church Rd): Marriages 1947-61 Birmingham Central Library [61]

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:
1841 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]
1841 - 81 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 & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 2004 - Author Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry

Warwickshire 1891 census returns: Solihull registration district RG 12/2461-2466 [Microfilm.] - Published London Public Record Office 2003

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1703-65 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

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:
Yardley Workhouse register of inmates 1812-37 BMSGH microfiche

At Society of Genealogists :-
The heraldry of St. Edburgha's church, Yardley (an heraldic guide) - Published Stourton : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1988 -Author Juby, Bernard A (comp.)

Yardley Workhouse register of inmates 1812-37 [Microfiche.] - Published : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1995 - Author Harrison, Yvonne (trans.)

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