Worcestershire, England Genealogy

England Worcestershire

Guide to Worcestershire ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

County Information
Worcestershire, or County of Worcester, is an inland county in the lower western part of England.

Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Worcestershire.

Civil Districts
List of Worcestershire Civil Registration Districts

Websites

 * Worcestershire Resources and help pages on RootsChat: Worcestershire Resources and help pages.
 * The Worcester Branch of the Birmingham &amp; Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry has excellent information on most of the parishes and many links to records.
 * Website for United Kingdom research
 * FHL Favorite's Various websites for Worcestershire research
 * searchable Rootsweb: all County, district, etc. web site for UK vital records [marriage, birth, death] the data will be up dated on regular periods when volunteers are done with more information.
 * Newspaper web site contains family history queries, stories, photo postings for the area around Birmingham. Small townships can be searched in this newpaper chain.
 * Commonwealth Members War Graves site more than WW 1&amp;2 search for graves, individuals, units, cemeteries, etc. Usually gives two reports on personal information of dead &amp; wounded and the grave finder information.
 * Database of Dudley/Stourbridge area cemetery and creamatory records that the City Council was left to take care of.
 * Genuki Worcestershire: Contains many resources used for genealogical research in Worcertershire
 * CD set "National burial index for England and Wales" information about the CD's can be found in the SLC card catalogue on www.familysearch.org The CD set contains transcribed burial records for indexed cemeteries updated by the CD orgainzers. Records can be searched by county, cemeteries, and surname variations. Available in SLC and Oakland Family History Center and maybe other Libraries. Well worth a search for unusual Surnames or for known ancestral locations.
 * To view an more extensive list of web sites and/or web pages for Worcestershire and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.

Content to Move

 * Worcestershire is divided into areas that have been given descriptive titles mark the area that were linked by a common thread. The Black Country describes an industrial area south and west of Brimingham.  The black is from the sky color generated by the foundry smoke stacks.  Area terms help finding an ancestral home. Books that have been writen about the Black Country offer genealogical information.  Present residents of Worcestershire have written books on court cases, this writer found an account of the trial and gossip surounding the philandering of Edward Perrins, her second great grandmother's cousin.   Edward Perrins is not famous but his actions were the subject of local color.  In this book I found a researched pedigree of the Perrins Line between 1746 and the middle of the 19th Century, and photos of family business. The title of this book is "In the Shadow of the Monument" that title did not reveal any of the family research treasures that were found in this book.

Another book "Black Country Criminal Ancestors 1787-1868" contained and explains court records. Court notices transcribed as they were written up in local newspapers. The book lists names, dates, crimes, the sentence, and if they were reprieved. England commonly transported a large number of criminals during the last few Centuries. Court records can help family research if it possible ancestors may have ended up in any of the areas that criminals were transported to: Georgia in the United States, Australia, and others. Example: Zachariah Guest, for stealing a wip from John Jays, [in] Dudley. 7 years transportation.