Birmingham St Martin Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Birmingham St Martin is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Ladywood, Lady Wood, and Birmingham St Mary.

Parish church: St Martin

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1554
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Unitarian, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

BIRMINGHAM Bull Ring
The old centre of Birmingham in the 1880's
St. Martin's Church Birmingham
St. Martin’s Church after the first restoration from Old and New Birmingham
Parish Church Birmingham
Parish Church Birmingham
1916 BIRMINGHAM BULL RING
1916 BIRMINGHAM BULL RING

The parish of St Martin’s was extensive, covering a large portion of modern Birmingham. As new churches were constructed, parts of the parish were reassigned as follows:

Birmingham St Martin Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

Birmingham St Martin, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1554-1812

Birmingham St Martin, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms 1554-1912

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Birmingham St Martin, Birmingham Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1937

Death and Burial Records

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

Birmingham St Martin, Birmingham Church of England Burials 1813-1915

Birmingham Cemetery and Crematoria Records

Birmingham Cemetery and Crematoria Records 1836-2017

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

THOMASON, William, of St. Martin’s, co. Warwick, 21, b., & Mary Hills, of Christ church, 21, at Portsmouth, 11 June, 1783.

Birmingham St Martin Strays

Samuel Pratt, p. St. Martin’s, Birmingham, & Ann Barnwell, p. B., lic. 7 Oct. 1788 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

The Foresters’ Guide to Birmingham and Its Neighbourhood 1883

There is no mention of a church in Doomsday Book, but doubtless Birmingham possessed one at that time. The tower is said to date from the year 1280, and the old spire from 1300. In 1330 Walter de Clodsdale obtained a license to found a Chantry to maintain one priest to say mass daily for his soul and that of his Wife Agnes. In 1535 the endowments were valued at £10 1s. ; and in 1546 at £11 16s. 3d.

The present church is a good example of conscientious restoration. It is Gothic of the Early Decorated Period; was consecrated on July 20th, 1875, and, including the reredos and west window, cost £32,000.

In 1883 a beautiful stained glass window was placed in the south side of the chancel in memory of the wife of the Rev. Canon Wilkinson, the present rector. There are some fine monuments in the church of the “Lords of Birmingham,” which will fully repay a visit. The restoration is the work of Mr. J. A. Chatwin.

Source: The Foresters’ Guide to Birmingham and Its Neighbourhood. Presented by the Demonstration Committee to the Delegates In High Court Meeting, Assembled in Birmingham, August, 1883.Specially Prepared For the Occasion by John Alfred Langford, LL.D; F.R.H.S. Birmingham: James Upton, Baskerville Printing Works, Great Charles Street. 1883.

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Birmingham
  • Probate Court: Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Arden
  • Poor Law Union: Birmingham
  • Hundred: Birmingham Borough
  • Province: Canterbury