Great Barr, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Great Barr, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Great Barr is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1849 from chapelry in Aldridge, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. BARR, GREAT, a parochial chapelry, in the parish of Aldridge, union of Walsall, S. division of the hundred of Offlow and of the county of Stafford, 5½ miles (N.) from Birmingham.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Great Barr St Margaret was formed from a former chapelry of Aldridge, Staffordshire

Great Barr parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Deposited parish registers at Staffordshire Record Office Bap 1653-1952 Mar 1653-1958 Bur 1653-1948 Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1664-1870 Mar 1664-1837 Bur 1664-1870

Poor Law Unions
Walsall Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Websites
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/GreatBarr/index.html