Worcester St Mark in the Cherry Orchard, Worcestershire Genealogy

Guide to Worcester St Mark in the Cherry Orchard, Worcestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
ST MARK’S in the Cherry Orchard is the delightfully named church in a southern suburb of Worcester.Its foundation stone was officially laid on June 21, 1902. St Mark’s began life as only “a mission church” – an offshoot or outpost of the large-scale Parish of St Peter’s. For more than three decades, St Mark’s remained a mission church under the wing of St Peter’s. But a major milestone came in 1936, when it was designated “a conventional district”, making it a completely independent church with its own incumbent and own parochial church council. The natural progression from this came in 1955 with the official creation of the Parish of St Mark’s in the Cherry Orchard.

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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
The Church of England (Anglican) became the official state religion in 1534, with the reigning monarch as its Supreme Governor. Non-Conformist refers to all other religious denominations that are not the official state religion.

Church of England
Due to the increasing access of online records: Hover over the collection's title for more information Other Websites These databases have incomplete parish coverage.
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * Dates in the following table are approximate
 * Joiner Marriage Index - Worcestershire ($)
 * The Genealogist Parish Registers - Worcestershire ($)
 * UK Websites for Parish Records - Links to online genealogical records
 * Online Genealogical Index - Links to online genealogical records

Non-Conformists (All other Religions)

 * 1717 England & Wales, Roman Catholics, 1717 at Findmypast ($), index and images (coverage may vary)

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

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