Sparkhill, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire  Worcestershire Parishes

Parish History
Sparkhill; A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Sparkhill has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Birmingham. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22919 History of Sparkhill, in Birmingham and Worcestershire], Date accessed and adapted: 16th October 2013

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records
Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Worcestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain