Netherton St Andrew, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire



Parish History
Netherton St Andrew is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Worcestershire, created in 1844 from Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire Ancient Parish.

NETHERTON, a district chapelry, in the united parishes of St. Thomas and St. Edmund, Dudley, union of Dudley, Lower division of the hundred of Halfshire, Dudley and E. divisions of the county of Worcester; containing 129 persons. This place is situated in an extensive mining and manufacturing district, and the inhabitants are mostly employed in furnaces for smelting iron-ore, and in the making of nails, which is carried on to a great extent. There are large collieries in the immediate neighbourhood, in full operation, and several mines of ironstone. A neat chapel, dedicated to St. Andrew, was erected in 1831, by grant of the Parliamentary Commissioners, on ground given by the late Earl of Dudley: the living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £220; patron, the Vicar of Dudley. Here are places of worship for Wesleyans, Baptists, Methodists of the New Connexion, and Primitive Methodists.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 372-374. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51169 Date accessed: 24 March 2011.

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
Dudley St Andrew Netherton for earlier registers see Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire

Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1844-1973 Marr 1845-1976 Bur 1842-1968

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Census records
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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 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
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 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Add any relevant sites that aren’t mentioned above.