Great Barr Staffordshire Family History Guide

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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

Adjacent Parishes

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

FamilySearch

Use for:
England, Staffordshire, Barr (Great)
England, Staffordshire, Barr Magna

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Great Barr, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Great Barr, 1660-1870
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Barr (Staffordshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Scarcliff (Derbyshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Shirland (Derbyshire)

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr, parish registers : St. Margaret, 1653-1900
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Great Barr (Staffordshire); Staffordshire County Record Office

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Great Barr, Stafford, England ; christenings, 1660-1870
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Great Barr, Stafford, England ; marriages, 1660-1685, 1698-1763, 1791-1809
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Description and travel ( 1 )
Great Barr, Brownhills

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Land and property ( 1 )
Catalogue of charters and deeds of Great Barr, 1303-1773
Author: Calfall, William A.

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Bateman-Scott collection of manor court records : 1649-1750

Court rolls : 1617-1725
Author: Manor of Great Barr. Court (Staffordshire)

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Overseer accounts for Great Barr, 1752-1837
Author: Great Barr (Staffordshire, England)

England, Staffordshire, Great Barr – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Great Barr and Hammerwich, 1772-1831
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Staffordshire)

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

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