Great Barr Staffordshire Family History Guide
Great Barr is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1849 from a chapelry in Aldridge Ancient Parish.
Status: Ecclesiastical Parish
Parish church: St Margaret
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1664
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
- Wednesbury St Bartholomew
- West Bromwich, All Saints
- Walsall St Matthew
- Shenstone
- Handsworth St Mary
- Aldridge
- Rushall
- Sutton Coldfield
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BARR (Great), a village, a township, and a chapelry in Aldridge parish, Stafford. The village stands 2½ miles SE of Walsall r. station; has a post office under Birmingham; and is a seat of petty sessions.
The township comprises 4,960 acres. Real property, £8,405, Pop., 1,075. Houses, 220. Barr Hall is the seat of Sir E. D. Scott, Bart.; and stands amid charming grounds, in a beautiful valley. An urn, near the flower-garden, is monumental of Miss Mary Dolman, the cousin of Shenstone. Barr Beacon, 653 feet high, is said to have been the seat of the Archdruid; and was. used by the Saxons and the Danes as a place of alarm-fires.
The chapelry is conterminate with the township; and is a vicarage in the dio. of Lichfield. Value, £405. Patron, Sir E. D. Scott, Bart. The church stands at the village; and is a handsome recent structure, with an eastern painted window by Egginton. A school has an endowed income of £67, and other charities have £35.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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England, Staffordshire, Barr (Great)
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Maps
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Walsall
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Walsall
- Poor Law Union: Walsall
- Hundred: South Offlow
- Province: Canterbury