Amblecote, Worcestershire Genealogy
Guide to Amblecote, Worcestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
| Amblecote, Worcestershire | |
|---|---|
| Type | Ecclesiastical Parish (England) |
| Civil Jurisdictions | |
| Hundred | South Seisdon |
| County | Worcestershire, England Genealogy |
| Poor Law Union | Stourbridge |
| Registration District | Stourbridge |
| Records begin | |
| Parish registers: For records see Kingswinford and also see Wordesley | |
| Bishop's Transcripts: For records see Kingswinford and also see Wordsley | |
| Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
| Rural Deanery | Kidderminster |
| Diocese | Worcester |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Legal Jurisdictions | |
| Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
| Location of Archive | |
| Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service | |
Contents
Hamlet History[edit | edit source]
AMBLECOAT, a hamlet, in the parish of Old Swinford, union of Stourbridge, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of Stafford, ½ a mile (N.) from Stourbridge. A district chapelry was commissioned and a chapel built in Amblecote by the year 1842. There are places of worship for Wesleyans, and Methodists of the New Connexion.[1]
Additional information:
Amblecote Holy Trinity is a district church and Ecclesiastical Parish, partly in Staffordshire and partly in Worcestershire, formed in 1842 from Old Swinford, Worcestershire Genealogy ancient parish.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
See West Midlands BMD and Staffordshire BMD
Church records[edit | edit source]
Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1842-1891 Marr 1846-1902 Bur 1844-1904
Census records[edit | edit source]
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions[edit | edit source]
Stourbridge Poor Law Union, Worcestershire
Probate records[edit | edit source]
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Staffordshire 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]
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England, (1848). Date accessed and adapted: 30 September 2013.
