BARSTON

This is now a residential suburb about four and a half miles east of Solihull. The name is recorded in the Domesday Book. Eastcote is a hamlet within the parish, and Eastcote House, Barston Hall and Wharley Hall no doubt provided some employment for local people.

DIOCESE: Lichfield, but transferred to Worcester in 1837, Coventry in 1918 and Birmingham in 1919. A Peculiar of the Lord of the Manor. HUNDRED: Hemlingford UNION: Solihull

ADJOINING PARISHES: Hampton-In-Arden, Berkswell, Balsall, Knowle, Solihull.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1598-1887 Marriages: 1598-1946 Burials: 1598-1964 Banns 1754-1812 1824-1901

Bishop's Transcripts : 1813-1841 LIC Begin 1836 and c1858 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1598-1876, Marriages: 1603-1750 & 1754-1876. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: CM Burials: 1598-1876, Banns 1754-1812,1824-1876 SoG

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS St.Swithin BMSGH.m/fiche , WAR
SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: Printed Index Wills and Admons 1675-1790 (BRS 7) Ms calendar, post-1790 records; WAR
WOR

CENSUS RECORDS: All WAR
1811 All named WAR
1821 Householders named with household numbers WAR
1841 61 81 BIR
1851 BMSGH SI v9. SoG , BIR
1851 vI (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1680-1837
Marriage 1754-1835 Poor Law c1690-1860 Pre-1841

CENSUS

MANORIAL RECORDS: Document, 1868 BIR
Admissions, Surrenders, Customs and Chart of Descent, 17th-19th century. WAR

OTHER SOURCES: Map of Eastcote Hall and surrounding lands in Barston and Solihull, by Thomas Harrison 1720.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]