Yardley Worcestershire Family History Guide
Yardley St. Edburgha an Ancient Parish and Civil Parish in the county of Worcestershire. Yardley Civil Parish was abolished in 1912 with the entire area becoming part of Birmingham Ancient Parish1.
The Ecclesiastical boundary was altered several times between 1849 and 1968 with the creation of the following Ecclesiastical Parishes2:
- 1849 Yardley Wood Ecclesiastical Parish
- 1867 Acocks Green Ecclesiastical Parish
- 1878 Hay Mill Ecclesiastical Parish
- 1894 Sparkhill St John the Evangelist Ecclesiastical Parish
- 1907 Hall Green (Marston Chapel) Ecclesiastical Parish
- 1932 Stetchford Ecclesiastical Parish
- 1956 South Yardley Ecclesiastical Parish
- 1967 Garretts Green Ecclesiastical Parish in Worcestershire and Warwickshire
- 1968 Lea Hall Ecclesiastical Parish in Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
In 1948 the parish boundary was altered when Yardley gained part of Shelton Ecclesiastical Parish in Staffordshire and Part of Olton Ecclesiastical Parish in Warwickshire.
Local Government Areas: Pershore Hundred until 1760, Halfshire Hundred from 1760, Solihull Poor Law Union 1836 to 1911, Solihull Rural Sanitary District, Yardley Rural District 1894 to 1911, Birmingham County Borough 1911 to 1912, Birmingham Poor Law Union 1911-12.
Ecclesiastical Areas: Kidderminster Rural Deanery until 1880, Northfield Rural Deanery 1880-1905, Solihull Rural Deanery 1905-57, and Yardley Rural Deanery from 1905.
Other places originally in the parish include: Acocks Green, Marston, Hay Mills, Hall Green and Sparkhill.
Parish church: St Edburgha situated on Church Road
Parish registers begin: 1539
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Kings Norton
- Elmdon Warwickshire
- Sheldon Warwickshire
- Yardley Wood
- Bordesley Holy Trinity Warwickshire
- Solihull Warwickshire
- Moseley
- Ward End Warwickshire
- Castle Bromwich Warwickshire
Yardley Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Yardley, Worcestershire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
Yardley, St Edburgha, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1539-1804
Yardley, Marston, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1780-1812
Yardley, Worcestershire Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922
Yardley St Edburgha, Birmingham Church of England Baptisms 1813-1922
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Yardley, Worcestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947
Yardley St Edburgha, 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.
Yardley, Worcestershire Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997
Yardley St Edburgha, Birmingham Church of England Burials 1813-1935
Non-Conformist Registers
Greet, Greet Methodist Church, Percy Road Marriage Register 1915 Jun-1928 May
Greet, Greet Methodist Church, Percy Road Marriage Register 1928 Jul-1944 Dec
Greet, Greet Methodist Church, Percy Road Marriage Register 1945 Mar-1972 Jul
Historical Directory Transcriptions
Acocks Green Bennett’s Business Directory 1899
Hay Mills Bennetts Business Directory 1899
Yardley (With Yardley Wood and Hall Green) 1855
Yardley Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820
Parish History
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Yardley, a parish in the district of Solihull and county of Worcester; 4 miles E of Birmingham. It contains Stechford r. station in the N, and Acocks Green r. station in the S; is traversed by the Warwick and Birmingham canal; and has a post-office under Birmingham. Acres, 7,355. Real property, £25,252. Pop., in 1851, 2,753; in 1861, 3,848. Houses, 775. The manor has belonged since 1768 to the family of Taylor. There are many good residences.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £625. Patron, Mrs. M Severne. The church is good, and has a tower and spire. The p. curacy of Marston and the vicarage of Yardley Wood and Acocks-Green are separate benefices; and the first and the second have been separately noticed; while the third was constituted so late as 1867.
A handsome new Independent chapel, with tower and spire, is at Acocks-Green; another Independent chapel is at Rushall-Lane; the Independent theological college, noticed in our article on Moseley, is at Wake Green; and there are an endowed grammar-school with £100 a-year, another endowed school with £70, a national school, and charities about £800.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72]
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845
Yardley (St. Edburgh), a parish, in the union of Solihull, Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Northfield and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 4½ miles (E.) from Birmingham; containing 2825 inhabitants.
The parish is situated on the road from Birmingham to Coventry, and is separated from the county of Warwick by a small rivulet. It comprises 6513a. 28p., of which 1809 acres are arable, 3889 pasture and meadow, 8 woodland, and the remainder canal, roads, and waste; the soil is a stiff loam, under which are extensive beds of clay. Great quantities of excellent red tiles are made, and conveyed to Birmingham, whence they are sent to various parts of the kingdom.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £9. 19. 4½.; net income, £463; patrons and impropriators, the family of Greswolde. The church exhibits various specimens of the early and later English styles; a gallery containing 100 free sittings, was erected in 1823. At Yardley Wood, in the parish, a church was built in 1844.
The inhabitants have, from a very early period, enjoyed the benefit of certain lands and rent-charges granted to trustees for their use by different benefactors ; the revenue amounts to £833.19., appropriated to the maintenance of two schools, in paying house-rent for poor parishioners, repairs of the church and bridges, a distribution of bread and money twice a year, and apprenticing children.
Job Marston, in 1703, bequeathed property for building and endowing a chapel at Hall Green; the rental amounts to £130; and the chapel, which was consecrated by Bishop Lloyd on the 25th of May, 1704, is a free chapel and donative, in the patronage of Trustees; incumbent, the Rev. David Davies, M.A. A gallery was added in 1836.
The same testator bequeathed property now producing £111 per annum, which is appropriated to a distribution of clothing, bread, &c., and in apprenticing one or two children annually; and Henry Greswolde Lewis, in 1829, gave £1500, directing the dividends to be expended in clothing, bread, and meat.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV
Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822
Yardley – a parish in the hundred of Pershore, though, for the convenience of the inhabitants, assessed in the upper division of Halfshire, 5 miles E. from Birmingham, and 111 from London; containing 440 inhabited houses, nearly surrounded by Warwickshire. Considerable quantities of tiles are made here, which are forwarded by water-carriage from Birmingham, to different parts of the kingdom. It is a vicarage, Rev. Henry Gwyther, incumbent; instituted 1821; patron, Lord Milford. Population, 1801, 1906 – 1811, 1918 – 1821, 2313.
Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.