Yardley Wood, Worcestershire Family History Guide

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Yardley Wood Christ Church (School Road) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Worcestershire, created in 1849 from Yardley Ancient Parish and Kings Norton Ecclesiastical Parish1.

The following parishes have been created from Christ Church Yardley Wood2:

In 1962 Yardley Wood Christ Church gained part of Shirley Ecclesiastical Parish.

Mission Rooms and Churches3:

  • St. Joseph’s Mission Church, Alcester Lanes End, was licensed for public worship from 1920 until the Second World War;
  • St. Mary the Virgin, Billesley, 1923-6.

Adjacent Parishes

Yardley Wood Parish Registers

Yardley Wood Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Yardley Wood, Worcestershire Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Yardley Wood, Christ Church, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms 1840-1936

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Yardley Wood Christ Church, Birmingham Church of England Marriages and Banns 1849-1948

Yardley Wood Death and Burial Records

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

Yardley Wood, Worcestershire Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Yardley Wood Christ Church, Birmingham Church of England Burials 1849-1949

Historical Directory Transcriptions

Yardley (With Yardley Wood and Hall Green) 1855

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

YARDLEY-WOOD, a chapelry in Yardley and Kings-Norton parishes, Worcester; near Acocks-Green r. station, and 4 miles SE of Birmingham. It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Acocks-Green, under Birmingham. Pop., 687. Houses, 160. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value £60. Patron, Miss Taylor.

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

Administration

  • County: Worcestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Solihull
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Kidderminster
  • Poor Law Union: Kings Norton
  • Hundred: Halfshire
  • Province: Canterbury

References

  1. F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) ↩︎
  2. F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) ↩︎
  3. Religious History: Churches built since 1800 | British History Online ↩︎

County Maps

The Godfrey Edition reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. Many are taken from the highly detailed 1:2500 plans, reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile, showing individual houses, railways, factories, churches, mills, canals. Each map includes historical notes on the area. Alongside these large‑scale sheets, Alan Godfrey also publishes the smaller‑scale Inch‑to‑the‑Mile series, and a range of maps based on the OS five‑foot plans.