YARDLEY WOOD

Descriptive Notes:

Status:
Ecclesiastical Parish [25]
Created in 1849 from Yardley Ancient Parish & Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish
Some ecclesiastical boundary alterations have occurred to create or help create a number of daughter parishes. In :-
1914 - to help, together with Moseley St Mary Ecclesiastical Parish, create Moseley St Agnes Ecclesiastical Parish
1937 - to help, together with Moseley St Agnes Ecclesiastical Parish & Kings Heath Ecclesiastical Parish, create Billesley Common Ecclesiastical Parish
1938 - to create Highters Heath Ecclesiastical Parish
1962 - it gained part of Shirley Ecclesiastical Parish (Warwickshire)
1962 - to create Hall Green St Peter Ecclesiastical Parish. In 1966 Hall Green St Peter Ecclesiastical Parish boundary was altered to help, together with Olton Ecclesiastical Parish & Shirley Ecclesiastical Parish (both Warwickshire), create Gospel Lane Ecclesiastical Parish

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP093795
6 miles south of central Birmigham along the A435

Parish Church:
Christ Church, School Rd., Yardley Wood, Birmingham

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

Register Copies:
Christenings 1846-1961 Marriages 1849-1953 Burials 1849-1949 Birmingham Central Library [60]
Christenings & Burials 1864-76 (BTs) [Microfilm.] - Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998 Society of Genealogists [68]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Yardley Wood: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Author: Wheatcroft, Wyn (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:
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 Society of Genealogists

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Last updated on 3rd April 2008

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