Coseley, Staffordshire Genealogy

Guide to Coseley, Staffordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
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.

Coseley Christ Church is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1832 from Sedgley, Staffordshire Ancient 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
Coseley Christ Church parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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
Coseley Dark House Particular Baptist Chapel registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Coseley Unitarian Old Meeting House registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Coppice Particular Baptist Chapel (Coseley) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Providence Baptist Chapel (Coseley) registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain