Old Swinford, Worcestershire Genealogy

England Worcestershire  Worcestershire Parishes

Please refer to Kingswinford, Staffordshire Kingswinford St Mary, Staffordshire and Wordsley Holy Trinity, Staffordshire for references to Old Swinford and the arrangement of record keeping.

Parish History
"SWINFORD, OLD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stourbridge, partly in the S. division of the hundred of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, but chiefly in the Lower division of the hundred of Halfshire, Stourbridge and E. divisions of the county of Worcester; containing, with the hamlet of Amblecoat, and the townships of Lye, Stourbridge, Wollaston, and Wollescott, 17,483 inhabitants, of whom 2220 are in Upper Swinford township, 1 mile (S. S. E.) from Stourbridge."

From: Lewis, Samuel A. "A Topographical Dictionary of England" (1848), pp. 289-292. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51324 Date accessed: 21 October 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.

Church records
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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

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