Crown East, Worcestershire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Crown East; A licence for the performance of divine service in the chapel at Crown East was recorded on 26 Oct 1876. (The chapel) came within Worcester, St John. See also Cotheridge with Crown East Parish Church. St Thomas, at the junction of the A44 and Crown East Lane, [Approval of Church Commissioners to the church of St Thomas, Crown East being a parish church.- 3 Feb 1977]. St Thomas currently serves the parish of Crown East and Rushwick. [Copy Order in Council creating the new parish of Cotheridge and altering the name of the parish of Cotheridge with Crown East to 'Crown East and Rushwick'. - 16 Feb 1977.

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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
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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.

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