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BIRMINGHAM, Warwickshire

"BIRMINGHAM, a parish and market town, municipal and parliamentary borough, and important seat of manufactures, in the Birmingham division of the hundred of Hemlingford, in the county of Warwick and partly in the county of Worcestershire, 20 miles to the N.W. of Warwick, and 113 miles from London by the London and North-Western railway. It is situated in the northwest corner of the county, on the confines of Staffordshire and Worcestershire, on the small streams called the Rea and the Tame, and is one of the great centres both of railway and canal communication, ranking unquestionably, for its wealth and population, as the capital of the midland counties, and one of the large towns of Europe, though not legally entitled to the designation of a city."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Census

• An offline searchable index of the 1891 Census of Birmingham has been produced.

Church History

• A list of Birmingham churches and their locations - Churches and Locations, and in reverse, a list of Locations and Churches.

• St Margaret's Church, Great Barr - Warder's Log 1781-1856, transcribed by Robert Deloyde. Added 16 Mar 2009.

Church Records

• Details of Birmingham Nonconformist and Roman Catholic Registers at Birmingham City Library. Added 20 Mar 2009.

Civil Registration

• Details of Birmingham Registration Districts for Churches in Birmingham, Aston, Kings Norton, Solihull, Tamworth and West Bromwich for the period from 1837 to 1974.

Directories

• Wrightson's Triennial Directory for Birmingham, 1818, by J.E. Lindley:
  
  The file has been split into three parts.
  • Names A - F (74k)
  • Names G - N (69k)
  • Names O - Y (85k)

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Birmingham from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

History

• Perry Barr in the 1800's.

Names, Personal

• Names of 180 subscribers to a Tontine Deed for Birmingham Public Library (1798), indexed by Ted Wildy.

• A list of about 1500 names from a book about Birmingham Repertory Theatre 1907-1943 (published early 1900's), provided by Steve Pickthall.

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