Malvern Link, Worcestershire Genealogy

Guide to Malvern Link, Worcestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
MALVERN Link: The Ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 as 'Link' from Leigh Ancient Parish. Refounded in 1846. Abolished in 1973 to help create Malvern Link with Cowleigh Ecclesiastical Parish. The civil parish created in 1894 from the part of Leigh Ancient Parish in Malvern Link Urban District. Ecclesiastical jurisdiction: Archdeaconry &amp; Diocese of Worcester. Poor Law Union of Upton upon Severn (1894-1930).

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

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the The Hive (where the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service is located).

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


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain