Yardley Wood, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire

Parish History
Yardley Wood Christ church is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Worcestershire, created in 1849 from Yardley, Worcestershire Ancient Parish and  Kings Norton, Worcestershire Ecclesiastical Parish.

Christ Church, Yardley Wood, was formed in 1849, and contains part of the ancient parish of King's Norton. Christ Church was built and endowed by the late Mrs. Sarah Taylor, and is a building of stone consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and western bell-turret. The living is in the gift of Mr. A. J. Taylor, now lord of Yardley Manor. Part of Yardley became ecclesiastically annexed to Moseley in 1879, and part to Acock's Green in 1867.

From: 'Parishes: Yardley', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913), pp. 238-245. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43116&amp;amp;strquery=yardley wood Date accessed: 22 February 2011.

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.

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Census records
Include an overview if there is any unique information, such as the census for X year was destroyed. Add a link to online sites for indexes and/or images. Also add a link to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.

Index for the Census may be searched at FamilySearch Historical Records

http://www.1881pubs.com/ for details of public houses in the 1881 census

Poor Law Unions
Solihull Poor Law Union, Warwickshire

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.

Maps and Gazetteers
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.