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Aston Parish Church Cemetery for Parslow Family

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Can someone tell me please how I go about finding the Parslow family burials in the cemetery at Aston Parish Church?

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All Aston Parish Burials are on film at Birmingham Central Library, which I can see is a bit of a walk from where you live. I am sure if you had close dates of death someone visiting the library might do a look up for you. Aston Church burial ground (not a cemetery) was open until about 50 years ago for certain burials. How do you know they are there? Burials after about 1850 are more likely to be in a cemetery than the church, but it is not a foregone conclusion.

I hope this is of some help.

Shortie
 
Shortie my Aunt Floss was the last of our family to be buried there and unfortunately a lot of graves were removed to make way for houses and I am afraid that is a sore point with me. Your suggestion makes the most sense. Jean.
 
Jean, it's a sore point with most of us, the only people who think it's ok are those that do the burying! Leave burial grounds alone, I say.

Shortie
 
Hi Jennyann, MI's are not Parish Records - MI's are only for those people who had headstones and a heck of a lot of people did not, mostly the poorer people. Parish Records are the only way to check properly, but it's a long haul. I reckon it takes me about two hours to do one film, but that might be because I am not a young as I used to me. LOL.

Shortie
 
You are quite right Shortie. With a churchyard as old as Aston Parish there could be thousands of people interred there. It's a lot to take on searching. Good for you.
 
Hello Shortie and all interested parties.

Thank you for your information. I simply hadn't realised it entailed such a great deal of work. I thought there would have been something on the internet that I could access to do my own searches. It was my Dad who reckoned that his grandfather was buried in Aston Parish Churchyard and had as a child visited the grave with my grandmother. My gt. grandparents were also married there. I also understand that several of the Parslow family had headstones in the graveyard.

I'm likely to visit Birmingham again sometime in November so this might be an opportunity for me to have a look around at the churchyard and any remaining graves and headstones.

Thank you
 
Hi Number 10, I have been on holiday, so only just got this posting. Just a suggestion - have a look at the church web site, and you may find things out from that before your visit, such as the time the church is open, etc. I am not sure, but I think the headstones have been removed to the edge of the churchyard. As for things being on the net - it's easy in this day and age to expect it, but the input of thousands of burial details would take a long time and cost a lot of money. BMSGH have done the St Martin's burials and it cost the Society £15,000 to do the filming, so that just gives you some idea of the cost. It is a shame, especially as you live so far away, but if it was nearer home, you might find it is more rewarding to do the search on the ground, so to speak. Takes longer, but is more satisfying, or so I find. I pass that church fairly frequently, and feel ashamed to say I have never been inside, which I must endeavour to do, as a lot of my family married in there.

Shortie
 
HI CHRIS
If you were ever connected to that church [ aston parish ] like i was i am afraid you would be disopointed to see the insides today to see the condition ; like i did about four years ago ;
i was christenend there like or my ppredecessors and all the family of generations connected to my family
got married there ; and i also was a choir boy there for many years along with my other two older brothers
and family friend john lloyed and a neibour ray jarratt we all sang together at the aston parish for years
so really thats why i say i am apart of that church and know it very well
four years ago i went there on one sunday morning and went in and met some people whom are now running it there was chicken wire hanging above you and they made some parts in the church into sections
and apparently its devided for children and then the adults instead of old traditions
where the congregation join all together the old vicage had been demolished some of the grave if most of them have all disapeared i felt very discusted with the appeareance ofthe church inside
to me it was i felt ; not the great aston parish church i knew and grew up in
i only view it now from above on the motor way when ever passing that way to cov; and i peer to the side
orinionaly the old grave yard was cramped and beleive me even in the forties and fifties at any ime of day it was really spooky and very spiritual and eerie;
but i hope you do go and get there its a grand looking church and there is connrctions there connected to the holts famly andthere is as you may be aware a lot of tales and stories to the holts and the church as i seem to remember about dear old aston ;and expeience i remember very vividly
have a yourself a great day best wishes astonion ;;
 
According to a newspaper obituary my great grandfather Arthur Yates was buried at Aston Parish church in 1895. I have as yet been unable to find his burial in the church records. I suppose the records are only as acurate as the person who writes them. I have his death cert which confirms the date of the obituary.
 
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