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.

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
Worcester St Mark in the Cherry Orchard 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

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