Balsall Heath Worcestershire Family History Guide

Balsall Heath Ecclesiastical Parish in the County of Worcestershire was created in 1853 from Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish. It was situated in Droitwich Rural Deanery from 1853-80, Northfield Rural Deanery 1880-1905, Kings Norton Rural Deanery 1905-57 and Moseley Rural Deanery 1957 -. The ecclesiastical boundary was altered in 1884 with the creation of Balsall Heath St Thomas in the Moors Ecclesiastical Parish, also in 1900 with the creation of Bordesley St Patrick Ecclesiastical Parish and again in 1905 with the creation of Balsall Heath St Barnabas Ecclesiastical Parish.

Balsall Heath St Thomas in the Moors Ecclesiastical Parish was created in 1884 from Balsall Heath Ecclesiastical Parish. The ecclesiastical boundary was altered in 1900 with the creation of Bordesley St Patrick Ecclesiastical Parish. It was abolished in 1958 with part going to Edgbaston St Mary and St Ambrose Ecclesiastical Parish in Warwickshire and part to Moseley St Anne Ecclesiastical Parish in Worcestershire.

Balsall Heath St Barnabas Ecclesiastical Parish was created in 1905 from Balsall Heath Ecclesiastical Parish.

Balsall Heath Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Balsall Heath, Worcestershire Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Balsall Heath St Barnabas, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms 1897-1949

Balsall Heath St Mark, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms 1903-1922

Balsall Heath St Paul, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms 1902-1905

Balsall Heath St Thomas in the Moors, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms 1883-1922

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Balsall Heath St Barnabas, Birmingham Church of England Marriages and Banns 1905-1963

Balsall Heath St Thomas in the Moors, Birmingham Church of England Marriages and Banns 1884-1937

Death and Burial Records

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

Balsall Heath, Worcestershire Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Balsall Heath Non-Conformist Registers

Balsall Heath, Balfour Street Methodist Chapel Marriage Register 1930 Oct 04-1939 Jul 29

Balsall Heath, Ombersley Road Methodist Church Marriage Register 1934 Jul 14-1952 Aug 23

Bankrupts

London Gazette

William James Dunn – Balsall Heath Worcestershire & Harborne Staffordshire – London Gazette 1850

Pursuant to the Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England.

The following PRISONERS, whose Estates and Effects have been vested in the Provisional Assignee by Order of the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and whose Petitions and Schedules, duly filed, have been severally referred and transmitted to the County Courts hereinafter mentioned, pursuant to the Statute in that behalf, are ordered to be brought up before the Judges of the said Courts respectively, as herein set forth, to be dealt with according to Law :

Before the Judge of the County Court of Warwickshire, holden at Coventry, on Tuesday the 7th day of May 1850.

William James Dunn, of Peter’s-place, John-street, Balsall heath, near Birmingham, in the county of Worcester, previously of Smethwick, in the parish of Harborne, in the county of Stafford, part of the time carrying on business in Bennett’s-hill, in Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, and part of the time of No. 14, Colmore-row, in Birmingham aforesaid, in copartnership with William Sims Sutton, under the style or firm of Sutton and Dunn, formerly of No. 65, Coleman-street, London, and being all the time an Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor.

Directory Transcriptions

King’s Norton (with Balsall Heath, King’s Heath, Moseley and Wythall) 1855

Balsall Heath Billings Directory 1855

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Balsall Heath, a chapelry in King’s Norton parish, Worcester; on the Birmingham and Gloucester railway, 2½ miles S of Birmingham. It was constituted in 1853; and it has a post office under Birmingham. Pop., 7,651. Houses, 1,616. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £300. Patron, the Incumbent of King’s Norton. The church is new.

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