Coseley, Staffordshire Genealogy
Guide to Coseley, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Coseley, Staffordshire | |
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Type | Ecclesiastical Parish |
Civil Jurisdictions | |
Hundred | North Seisdon |
County | Staffordshire, England Genealogy |
Poor Law Union | Dudley |
Registration District | Dudley |
Records begin | |
Parish registers: 1830 | |
Bishop's Transcripts: 1830 | |
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions | |
Rural Deanery | Himley |
Diocese | Lichfield |
Province | Canterbury |
Legal Jurisdictions | |
Probate Court | Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory) |
Location of Archive | |
Staffordshire Record Office | |
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Parish History[edit | edit source]
COSELEY, an ecclesiastical district, in the parish of Sedgley, union of Dudley, N. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford; comprising the villages of Coseley and Brierley, with part of the village of Ettingshall. [1]
Coseley Christ Church is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1832 from Sedgley, Staffordshire 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]
For earlier registers refer to Sedgley All Saints. |
Coseley Christ Church parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
FREG = FreeREG - free[2] | |||||
FS= FamilySearch - free[3] | |||||
NBI = National Burial Index (findmypast) - (£)[4] |
COSELEY CHRIST CHURCH PARISH (1830) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1861-1869 |
1830-1886 | ||||
FS | 1830-1856 | |||||
NBI | 1698-1837 |
Dudley Archives hold deposited parish registers Bap 1830-2004 Marr 1837-2008 Bur 1830-1984 and on microfilm Bap 1830-1936 Marr 1837-1934 Bur 1830-1936
Lichfield Record Office holdings of Bishop's Transcripts Bap 1830-1856 Mar none Burials 1830-1856 Missing Bap/Bur 1854-1855
Non-Conformist Churches[edit | edit source]
Coseley Dark House Particular Baptist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
COSELEY DARK HOUSE PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHAPEL Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
NBI | 1728-1837 |
Coseley Unitarian Old Meeting House registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
COSELEY UNITARIAN OLD MEETING HOUSE Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG |
1779-1837 |
1806-1837 |
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NBI | 1703-1837 |
Coppice Particular Baptist Chapel (Coseley) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
COPPICE PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHAPEL (COSELEY) (1794) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1794-1837 |
Providence Baptist Chapel (Coseley) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHAPEL (COSELEY) (1809) Online Records | ||||||
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Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | Indexes | Images | |
FREG | 1810-1837 |
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]
Dudley Poor Law Union, Staffordshire Genealogy
Probate records
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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
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Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
Websites[edit | edit source]
Reference
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- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 693-696. Date accessed: 30 October 2012.
- ↑ 'Staffordshire Coverage', FreeREG, accessed 17 September 2013.
- ↑ 'IGI Batch Numbers for Stafford (A-M), England', IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America, accessed 18 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 September 2013.