Ipsley Upper, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire  Worcestershire Parishes

Guide to Ipsley Upper, Worcestershire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
IPSLEY, a parish in Alcester district, Warwick; on the river Arrow and the Redditch railway, contiguous to Worcestershire, 1¾ mile SE by E of R edditch railway station. It contains Headless Cross village, and part of Redditch town, each of which has a post office under Bromsgrove; and contains also part of Crabs-Cross village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. A Roman Catholic chapel was recently erected on the border of the parish.

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.

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

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