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Worcestershire Burials

Note: the information on this page is subject to confirmation by the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry.

• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Transcription and conventions used

This index consists of 541,331 burial records.

Note: This information is similar to that presented by the National Burial Index databases, but may include more recent entries or more information.

The index includes the following fields - there may be more information in the original record:-

• Surname, forenames and title of the person being buried.
• Date of burial.
• Age at death.
• Abode - where the person was living, including the county (using the Chapman code) if not Worcestershire.
• The Parish where they were buried.
• Occupation of the person being buried.
• Description of the persion, e.g. typically their status.
• Any additional information.

Coverage

The following places or parishes are included in this database. Note that there may be more than one church, chapel or burial ground in each place.

Checking

A lower charge is made for the entries that await checking.

Grouping

There are no record groups in this database.

Abbreviations and Codes

The Chapman County codes have been used. The codes for the Counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire are 'STS', 'WAR' and 'WOR' respectively.

Contact details

For more information about the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry please see the web site www.bmsgh.org

How to buy

The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry can provide many parish registers and memorial inscriptions in fiche format, and these can be purchased by mail order from the Society.

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry.

While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the appropriate registers (or facsimiles thereof, e.g. microfilm) and to form their own interpretation. The Birmingham & Midland SGH accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the registers.)

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