Talk:Dudley St Edmund, Worcestershire Genealogy

New Parish Table
Dudley St Edmund parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the The Hive (where the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service is located).

Dudley is a detached part of Worcestershire which extends into part of Staffordshire. Ecclesiastically within the diocese of Worcester and the Kidderminster deanery it is historically referred to in some records as part of Staffordshire.

During the Civil War the church was destroyed by fighting and demolished during the period from 1646 the parish was united with Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire For the period 1647- 1843 it is necessary to refer to the St Thomas registers

St Edmund was rebuilt in 1724 as a chapel of east to St Thomas and did not become a parish again until 1844.

Old Parish Table
Dudley is a detached part of Worcestershire which extends into part of Staffordshire. Ecclesiastically within the diocese of Worcester and the Kidderminster deanery it is historically referred to in some records as part of Staffordshire.

During the Civil War the church was destroyed by fighting and demolished during the period from 1646 the parish was united with Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire For the period 1647- 1843 it is necessary to refer to the St Thomas registers

St Edmund was rebuilt in 1724 as a chapel of east to St Thomas and did not become a parish again until 1844.

Dudley St Edmund parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To search for the Dudley records inputted by Staffordshire FreeREG - selectCounty as Staffordshire and for Place select Dudley Staffs. Although most of Dudley is within Worcestershire - many of it's records are for people living in the surrounding Staffordshire Parishes. The Parish itself was always completely surrounded by Staffordshire and has been incorporated with other Staffordshire Parishes for Civil Registration purposes since 1837.

Dudley Archives has deposited Parish registers Bap 1640-1646, 1844-1931 Marr  1540-1646, 1844-1913 Bur 1540-1646, 1844-1996 and all of these registers have been microfilmed. There is also a manuscript transcript of the parish in Dudley Archives from 1540-1646.