Alcester, Warwickshire Genealogy

England Warwickshire Warwickshire Parishes

Guide to Alcester, Warwickshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Alcester (St. Nicholas), is a town, a parish, a sub district, and a district in Warwickshire. It is 15 miles WSW of Warwick is on the Birmingham and Malvern railway, 9 miles NNE of Evesham. There are places of worship for Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians. The town post office is under Redditch.

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

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Warwickshire 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