Oldbury, Worcestershire Genealogy

Guide to Oldbury, Worcestershire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
OLDBURY, a township, in the parish of Hales Owen, union of West Bromwich, Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Hales-Owen and E. divisions of Worcestershire, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Hales-Owen. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and others.

Additional information:

Oldbury is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Worcestershire, created in 1715 from Halesowen, Worcestershire 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 BMDand Staffordshire BMD

Church records
Oldbury Christ Church parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To search for the Oldbury records inputted by Staffordshire FreeREG - when searching select County as Staffordshire and for place select Oldbury Staffs. Oldbury was part of Shropshire until 1844 when it was transferred to Worcestershire. In 1966 it then became part of Staffordshire until finally in 1974 it became part of the West Midlands. Many of it's records are for people living in the surrounding Staffordshire Parishes.

Since 1837 for Civil Registration purposes the Parish was part of West Bromwich District. No marriages were recorded in the registers between 1762-1837.

Cemetery Records
Oldbury Cemetery, Rood End

FREG Staffordshire has transcribed the following Burial Registers1858-1869, 1873-1874

Poor Law Unions
West Bromwich 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
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain