Society of Genealogists - England: Worcestershire Resources

Worcestershire

Shelf Mark: WO

For an explanation of this information, please consult the Introduction and the list of Abbreviations. Recent additions to the Society's Library are listed in the Genealogists' Magazine. The staff of the Society are able to make limited searches in these County Sources for a standard fee. Shelf marks used in the library are given in square brackets at the very end of each title.

County-wide sources:

General Registers
Marriage Licences
Monumental Inscriptions
Censuses
Directories & Poll Books
Periodicals
Wills
Parishes: A-K | L-Z

General Registers

County wide sources for Christenings, Marriages and Burials include:

County sources at the Society of Genealogists: Herefordshire [&] Worcestershire parish registers, nonconformist registers, marriage licences. London: SoG, 2000 [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

National index of parish registers, vol. 5: South Midlands & Welsh border comprising the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire. London: SoG, 1976. [TB/PR]

A digest of the parish registers within the diocese of Worcester previous to 1812, together with a table of the Bishop's Transcripts, now in existence in Edgar Tower, Worcester, previous to 1700 ... [WO/R 7]

Parish register copies: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office information leaflet no. 7 [WA/G 30]

Parish register typescripts prepared by W H Challen from parishes in London, midlands & southern counties in 87 volumes: Reference tracts, vol. 2 [Middle Library enquiry counter]

Pete's guide to census, parish & nonconformist records for the Black Country, covering the metropolitan boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall & Wolverhampton [Shelf 9 (ST/GEN)]

Boyd’s marriage index 1538-c.1837 [Typescript]. [UK/REG] Most of this marriage index is also available on the The Origins Network website.

International Genealogical Index & addendum [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff] & available on-line at www.familysearch.org

British Vital Records Index [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

National Burial Index. 2nd edn. [CD-ROM] [Apply to staff]

RG 7 Fleet marriage register indexes [parishes, brides & grooms] [SP/REG]

Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry unwanted certificates 2nd & 3rd collections [WA/G 31 & 38]

Extracts & notes from parish registers, court rolls, charters etc., various parishes & families, Warwickshire & Worcestershire [Manuscript.] [WO/G 9]

General strays A-Z: [showing people from Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire recorded in other events such as baptisms, marriages, burials, MIs, removal orders and the like] - Worcestershire [Microfiche.] [WA/GEN/83943/1-18]

Quaker digest registers of births, marriages & burials - Herefordshire, Worcestershire & Wales General Meeting: Z 1635-1837 & 1681-1804, M 1657-1836, 1657-1765 & 1680-1800, B 1650-1838, 1659-1776 & 1683-1774 [Microfilm.] [Mf 3377]

Unrelated certificates index [5th collection] [WA/G 40]

Marriage Licences

Marriage licences: abstracts & indexes in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1991. 4th edn. [ML enquiry counter] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop

Faculty Office marriage licences index 1701-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/FO] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

Vicar-General marriage licences surname index 1694-1850 [Typescript.] [ML/VG] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

Calendar of wills & administrations in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester 1451-1652; also marriage licences & sequestrations now deposited in the Probate Registry at Worcester, vols. 1-2: British Record Society Index Library, vol. 31 & 39 [BRS]

Hereford Diocese marriage licence registers 1663-96, 1709-1843 [with contemporary indexes] [Microfilm.] [Mf 1884-1887]

Marriage licence bonds in the Edgar Tower, Worcester, 1600-98 index [Manuscript.] [WO/R 69]

Monumental Inscriptions

County wide sources for tombstone inscriptions (MIs) include:

Monumental inscriptions: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office information leaflet no. 11 [WA/G 30]

Censuses

In addition to free access from within the library to census returns and indexes on various subscription web sites, the Society holds many locally produced indexes. The latter are essential where an Internet index has mis-transcribed a name which you are looking for and for surviving pre-1841 censuses and census substitutes. eg. Bewdley 1831 census, Bromsgrove 1811 & 1821 census, Redmarley D'Abitot (St. Bartholomew)1801 & 1811 censuses

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

WORCESTERSHIRE - CENSUSES

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term for the required census.

Directories & Poll Books

The Society’s collection is of national importance and includes county and local directories of residents and businesses and poll books and other lists of voters in parliamentary and local elections. Details, correct as of 1995, are published in:

Directories & poll books, including almanacs & electoral rolls, in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. SoG, 1995. 6th edn. [ML enquiry counters] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Or search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

WORCESTERSHIRE - DIRECTORIES

or WORCESTERSHIRE - POLL BOOKS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Periodicals

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society holds the journals of most English-speaking family history societies world-wide, the publications of county record societies and many national and local history societies past and present.

Search the on-line catalogue for the Title required

Wills

The Library contains film copies of indexes to wills proved 1858-1930 and indexes, calendars and many abstracts of wills proved by individual church courts before 1858. Details, correct as of 1996, are published in:

Will indexes & other probate material in the library of the Society of Genealogists. London: SoG, 1996 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop.

Other major sources include:

An index to the wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1750-1800 [WILLS/PCC] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website. An index to all PCC wills 1384-1858 is available on-line at The National Archives.

Estate Duty will indexes 1796-1857 (IR 27/1-323) [Microfilm] [Wills film cabinets] The Death Duty registers 1796-1903 are also on-line at www.findmypast.com (formerly 1837online)

An index to the Bank of England will extracts 1807-45 [WILLS/GEN] Buy this book from the SoG on-line bookshop or search it on-line at The Origins Network website.

For the most up-to-date list of will material in the library, do a Subject search on the on-line catalogue for the name of the church court eg. Biggleswade Peculiar Court

Or if you do not know the name of the church court:

Search the on-line catalogue for the following Subject phrase:

WORCESTERSHIRE - GENERAL:WILLS

Click on the green Go button and then on the subject term required.

Parishes

A-K

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

The Society has material on the following and other places in the county of Worcestershire. For details please click on the link to the on-line catalogue and do a Subject search for the place name.

L-Z

SOGCAT On-line Catalogue

Visit the GENUKI pages for Worcestershire