Northfield

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Status

Ancient Parish [25]
Including a chapel at Cofton Hackett, which had separate civil identity early. Cofton Hackett was a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1866 and was ecclesiastically refounded in 1871. Northfield was abolished civilly in 1912 entirely to Birmingham Civil Parish (which was associated with Warwickshire) and Ancient Parish.
Additional ecclesiastically boundary alterations:
1862 - to create Selly Oak St Mary Ecclesiastical Parish
1933 - to help create Weoley Castle Ecclesiastical Parish
1938 - to help create Allens Cross Ecclesiastical Parish
1965 - to help create Shenley Green Ecclesiastical Parish
1966 - to help create West Heath Ecclesiastical Parish [25]

Location

O.S. Ref: SP025793
6 miles S.S.W. of Birmingham along the A441

Parish Church

Northfield: St.Laurence, Church Hill
Allens Cross: St.Bartholomew, Frankley Beeches Rd.,Northfield, Birmingham

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1905, Archdeaconry & Diocese of Birmingham (1905 - *) [1] [25]

Hundred

Upper Halfshire [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union

Kings Norton (1836-1911), Bromsgrove (1911-12) [25]

Adjoining Parishes

Harborne (Staffordshire); Edgbaston (Warwickshire); Moseley; Kings Norton; Frankley; Halesowen; Hagley [1]

Parish Registers at Worcestershire Archives

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No parish records held at Worcestershire Archives. The originals are at Birmingham Central Library [5]

Bishops' Transcripts

Begin 1612 Worcestershire Archives [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI)

[19]

Register Copies

At BMSGH Shop :
Part 1 Christenings & Marriages 1560-1741/2 Burials 1560-1757
Part 2 Christenings 1758-1841 Marriages 1742-1837 Burials 1758-1850
Register supplement to Part 1 Christenings 1742-57 (Book)

At BMSGH Reference Library [7]
Part 1 Baptisms & Marriages 1560-1741 Burials 1560-1757 also BTs and notes on Christian names etc.
Part 2 Baptisms 1758-1841 Marriages 1742-1837 Burials 1758-1850 plus Miscellany

At Library of Birmingham :-
Banns: Allens Cross: 1938-82
Christenings 1560-1983 Marriages 1560-1981 Burials 1560-1990

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
NORTHFIELD : Christenings 1560-1741, 1758-1841, Marriages 1560-1837, Burials 1560-1850; burials in woollen 1678-98; memoranda & lay subsidy rolls of 1280 & 1327 & miscellanea relating to the parish, wills [Microfiche.] Published Nd. Author Day, Leonard G (transcription.) Source D: M Herber.

NORTHFIELD : Christenings 1560-1741, 1758-1841, Marriages 1560-1837, Burials 1560-1850; burials in woollen 1678-98; memoranda & lay subsidy rolls of 1280 & 1327 & miscellanea relating to the parish, wills Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1978-80 Author Day, Leonard G (transcription.) Source D: BMSGH

NORTHFIELD : Christenings 1742-57; supplement to part 1 of the register of the parish of Northfield Published , Nd. Author Woodgate, G (transcription.) Source D: BMSGH

NORTHFIELD : Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1830-31, CB 1843-44, 1846-49, 1851-55, 1874-75 (BTs) [Microfilm.] Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1998

NORTHFIELD (St. Laurence): Christenings, Marriages & Burials 1560-1850, Monumental Inscriptions: Greater Birmingham miscellany [CD-ROM] IN: Greater Birmingham miscellany : Records from 14 churches, Wrightson's directory 1818, an 1861 trades directory & more [CD-ROM] Published Birmingham Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 2007 Author Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry et al. (transcription.) Edition 2nd edn.

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents

St.Laurence BMSGH Shop

NORTHFIELD, Birmingham (St. Laurence) : Monumental Inscriptions: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 17 [Typescript.] IN: Warwickshire monumental inscriptions, vol. 17 Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1989 Author Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (transcription.) Source D: BMSGH Society of Genealogists [59]

War Memorials

For a Memorial to Vernon, now in Northfield Royal British Legion Club, see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/memorial/austin-motor-co-vernon-austin-memorial-now-in-northfield-royal-british-legion-club//

For the Austin Motor Company WW1 Roll of Honour No.1 now in Northfield Royal British Legion Club, see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/memorial/austin-motor-company-ww1-roll-of-honour-no-1-now-in-northfield-royal-british-legion-club///

For the Austin Motor Company WW1 Roll of Honour No.2 now in Northfield Royal British Legion Club, see:
http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/memorial/austin-motor-company-ww1-roll-of-honour-no-2-now-in-northfield-royal-british-legion-club//

Census Records

All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Archives, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses. Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
1901 at Worcestershire Archives [14]
1891- 1901 Northfield, St.Paul's Convent
1841- 1901 Birmingham Central Library

At Society of Genealogists :-
1871 census Greater Birmingham (part) plus Budbrooke, Dunchurch & Leamington surname & folio index plus images of the folios for pieces RG 10/2968-2974, 3076-3086, 3088-3089, 3119, 3134-3160 & 3187-3193 [CD-ROM] - Published Birmingham Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry 2004 - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry

Edgbaston & Northfield 1851 census [Microfiche.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - Author: Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry.

Worcestershire1851 census index HO 107/2049 : Kings Norton registration district - Edgbaston (Northfield) [Microfiche.] - Published 1998 - Author: Friend, A F (comp)

Manorial Records

Worcestershire Archives [50]
Middleton: Arbitration award [1438]

Other Sources

The tithe apportionments for Northfield, 1838 : Midland history resource centre occasional paper, no. 3 IN: Midland history resource centre occasional paper, no. 3 Published Birmingham : Frankley Society, 1987 Author Avery, K (transcription.) Acc. no. 58060 Location Worcestershire periodicals shelves Shelf mark WO/PER Society of Genealogists

Northfield on old picture postcards - Book - BMSGH Shop

Directories

An extract from the Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis:

NORTHFIELD, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Birmingham, containing 1567 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the curacy of Coston-Hacket, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £14. 15. 2½ , and in the patronage of the Rev. John Thomas Fenwick. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is partly in the early English, and partly in the decorated, style, with a Norman door. The small river Rea, also the Birmingham and Worcester, and the Netherton canals, run through the parish, in which there are quarries of freestone. Here are some remains of Weoley castle, formerly belonging to the Jervoise family. A charity school is supported with the income arising from a bequest of £150 by William Worth, and another of £100, in 1779, by the Rev. Mr. Soley.