Reddal Hill, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire



Parish History
Reddal Hill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1844 from Rowley Regis, Staffordshire Ecclesiastical Parish.

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; containing, in 1841, about 6000 inhabitants. The district was formed in September 1844, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; it is about two miles in length, and comprises numerous mines of coal and ironstone. The Dudley and Netherton canal forms one of the boundaries, and the line of the Stour-Valley railway passes through. The New British Iron Company have extensive iron-works here, and there are several chain-manufactories: the population is also employed in nailmaking. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop of Worcester, alternately; net income, £210. The church, of which the foundation stone was laid by Lady Ward in Oct. 1845, was consecrated in Feb. 1847, and is a stone structure in the early English style, built at a cost of nearly £3300, and having accommodation for 1216 persons. There are places of worship for Primitive Methodists, Baptists, and other dissenters. A school was built by subscription in 1790, on land given by Viscount Dudley and Ward, under the auspices of the Rev. Christopher Stephenson, for 24 years curate of Rowley-Regis, who left the interest of £300 for its support.—

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 645-652. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51233 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.

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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.

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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 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.

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