Crutch, Worcestershire, England Genealogy

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Guide to Crutch, Worcestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Crutch
Type Extra-parochial
Civil Jurisdictions
County Worcestershire
Hundred Halfshire
Poor Law Union Droitwich
Registration District Droitwich
Records Begin
Parish registers For records see surrounding parishes
Bishop's Transcripts For records see surrounding parishes
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
Rural Deanery Not Applicable
Diocese Not Applicable
Probate Court Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
Archive
Worcestershire Record Office


Extra-Parochial District History[edit | edit source]

CRUTCH, an extra-parochial district, in the Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Droitwich and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 2 miles (N.) from Droitwich.[1]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Find Neighboring Parishes[edit | edit source]

Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

  • Type the name of the parish in the search bar
  • Click on the location pin on the map
  • Choose Options from the pop up box
  • Click "List Contiguous Parishes" to find the neighboring parishes

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day.

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Crutch is an extra parochial area and the closest ecclesiastical parish is Hampton Lovett.

  • Extra-parochial areas were not attached to parish churches.
  • The residents went to a church of their choosing outside of the parish boundaries.

Census Records[edit | edit source]

Census records from 1841 to 1921 are available online. See England Census for more resources.

Probate Records[edit | edit source]

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Worcestershire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England,(1848). Date accessed and adapted: 05 October 2013.

Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
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