Reddal Hill, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Reddal Hills, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
REDDAL-HILL, an ecclesiastical parish, in the parish of Rowley-Regis, union of Dudley, N. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Dudley. There are places of worship for Primitive Methodists, Baptists, and other dissenters.

Reddal Hill was created in 1844 from Rowley Regis, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

Civil Registration
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
Reddal Hill (Cradley Heath) St Luke deposited registers at Dudley Archives Parish registers

Bap 1845-1933 Marr 1847-1946 Bur 1847-1942 For earlier registers for Rowley Regis, Staffordshire see Sandwell Archives.Deposited Bishop's transcripts at Dudley Archives for this parish Bap 1845-1903 Marr 1847-1902 Bur 1847-1905

Cradley Heath was formerly part of this parish and Rowley Regis, Staffordshire Cradley Heath St Luke was formed in 1844 from part of both parishes and registers are at Dudley Archives.

Poor Law Unions
Dudley Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
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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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
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