Headless Cross Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Headless Cross is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Warwickshire, created in 1850 from Ipsley Ancient Parish, partly in Worcestershire and partly in Warwickshire.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1615
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1612

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Headless Cross Parish Registers

Headless Cross Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Headless Cross, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Headless Cross Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Headless Cross, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Headless Cross Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Headless Cross, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HEADLESS-CROSS, a village in Ipsley parish, Warwick, and Feckenham parish, Worcester, and a chapelry partly also in Tardebigg parish, Worcester. The village stands on the boundary between Warwick and Worcester, 2 miles W of Ipsley, and 5¼ SE of Bromsgrove r. station; and has a post office under Bromsgrove.

The chapelry was constituted in 1850. Pop., 1, 743. Houses, 387. Pop. of the Ipsley portion, 783. Houses, 169. Pop. of the Feckenham portion, 508. Houses, 114. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £102. Patron, rotationally the Rector of Ipsley, the Vicar of Tardebigg, and the Vicar of Feckenham.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Alcester; Bromsgrove
  • Probate Court: Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Warwick
  • Poor Law Union: Alcester
  • Hundred: Barlinchway
  • Province: Canterbury